The equine therapy like a therapeutic alternative directed to the treatment of the infantile disability and their impact in the process of Rehabilitation

Abstract

The equine therapy is a treatment form for people with diverse pathological processes that it uses as therapeutic element the patient's relationship affected with the horse, so much in it mounts it as in the care of the animal, and that it takes advantage of the movement multidimensional of the horse with a therapeutic sense. The therapeutic sense of the activity comes given by the form in that the professional uses the horse, for the individuality of the actions that develops in relation to each patient's specific characteristics and the evolutionary moment in that she is. The main objective is that they can have an experience gratificante and positive that helps them to improve its quality of life and its personal well-being.  It is unfavorable on the other hand that a great part of the professionals of the health and the special education ignore the foundations of this therapeutic modality that it could be a complementary alternative element of value to the activities that daily the children disability develop. At the present time many institutions in charge of promoting the infantile rehabilitation don't include the equine therapy inside their recommendations.  This activity of social interest has been little studied from the angle of its therapeutic value what outlines a Problem to the Science and the Technology for its importance for Cuba, an underdeveloped country that he/she has been able to introduce novel technologies in the environment of the health in spite of the provoked lack of resources for more than 61 years of blockade.