Hippotherapy and Parkinson's Disease

The sessions began with a 5 minutes warm up that involved stretching and body awareness exercises. Then, the training was conducted for 20 minutes with arms and torso exercises, changes of direction called serpentine movements; up and down hip movements with feet on stirrups, and forced expiration. In the final 5 minutes, exercises for relaxation were conducted with the horse which involved moving the hand on the horse's neck, laying forward on the head and stroking the horse. The horses walking speed was between 5.8 and 6.4 Km/h.