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- Title
THE PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVE OF HIPPOTHERAPY IN BIHOR.
- Authors
Florian, Pavel
- Abstract
Hippo-therapy is a special world that unites horses, persons with disabilities, children and adults, volunteers and professionals from the medical, psychological and educational field. In hippo- therapy the lives of everyone involved are improved. Horse riding for people with special needs is known to be one of the most progressive forms of therapy. Hippo-therapy is a unique form of rehabilitation, and horse riding acts in two ways on the human body: psychogenic and biomechanical. The riders exceed their physical deficiencies, but also their psychological phobias, through the motivation formed by the interaction with the animal. The declared purpose of this scientific paper is to evaluate the present and the future of hippo-therapy in Bihor and to promote a modern element in treating human affections. In the studies made in Bihor, it has been noticed a modest preoccupation among the owners of tourism and agrotourism pensions for recreational equestrian tourism, in general, and founding farms for equestrian tourism in special. Their therapeutically purpose is inexplicably ignored. Contrary to expectations, concerns about the establishment and operation of a equestrian tourism farm were recorded among breeders of race horses, although the real interest was expected from tourism and agrotourism pensions owners. We must only have the courage to give the horse the noble status that it deserves. On a value scale of breeding horses, it seems we are on the last steps, but the chance to fix this situation lays in the future generations, whose commitment and love towards this animal, we hope to be more profound than ours.
- Subjects
BIHOR Mountains (Romania); RIDING therapy; PHOBIAS; PEOPLE with disabilities; AGRITOURISM
- Publication
Analele Universitatii din Oradea, Fascicula Ecotoxicologie, Zootehnie si Tehnologii în Industria Alimentara, 2017, Vol 16, Issue Part B, p203
- ISSN
1583-4301
- Publication type
Article