AHA Level II Treatment Principles 11.10.17-11.13.17


Hippotherapy Treatment Principles This curriculum includes identifying and interpreting the body language of the horse, recognizing desirable conformation, soundness, and movement qualities, gaits of the horse and signs of burnout. Identify lameness and illness in the HPOT horse and explain appropriate prevention through veterinary, farrier and nutritional and training protocols. Identify and convey to the horse handler the necessary skills required to produce quality movement when leading, lunging or long lining the hippotherapy horse. Understand the principles of good nutrition, veterinary and wound protocols for the horse. Understand the importance of and be able to identify handling and riding skills that are necessary to maintain and or improve the HPOT horse. Create and understand the importance of having a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly schedule for the HPOT horse. Understand the need to educate and train staff and or volunteers who will be working with the hippotherapy horse, either in hippotherapy sessions or involved with the daily care and training routines, the handling techniques and training protocols to maintain a safe, effective and successful HPOT program. This curriculum is designed to provide and facilitate a problem solving treatment approach, using actual patients currently involved in Hippotherapy as part of their physical, occupational or speech therapy treatment. Practical applications to NDT, SI and Motor Learning Theory and Clinical Reasoning will be applied to the HPOT treatment strategy as well as an introduction to the Hippotherapy Conceptual Framework Theory. Therapists will be treating actual patients within a Hippotherapy Team, including videotaping and group discussions to further advance the learning experience. This course may be attended by licensed Speech, Physical and Occupational therapists and assistants (PTA, COTA, and SLPA’s).


Event Date: November 10 - 13, 2017
Registration Deadline:November 10, 2017 12:01am [Eastern Time]
Venue:
Ride-On Ranch
38416 Morrisonville Road
Lovettsville, VA 20180
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