{"id":5269,"date":"2011-10-27T00:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:23:58","slug":"horse-riding-mimics-walking-sensation-for-quadriplegic-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-riding-mimics-walking-sensation-for-quadriplegic-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse riding mimics walking sensation for quadriplegic child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Green&#8217;s extremities are often so rigid his parents struggle to get him dressed.<\/p>\n<p>When they put a shirt on him, they must take care not to put too much strain on his arms, otherwise they could come out of their sockets.\u00a0 He is a quadriplegic, his range of motion restrained by a brain injury he suffered as an infant.<\/p>\n<p>He sat upright in the front saddle of a horse Monday at Riley Equine Center, his legs dangling on the side, while a volunteer sat behind him with one arm laced around his sternum and the other propping his head up. As the horse circled inside a fenced ring, a staff member walked on each side of it, their hands acting as resistance for Dwight to stretch his leg muscles against, and the owner of the ranch gripped a lead rope and walked in front to ensure the animal remained calm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry link no longer works<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Green&#8217;s extremities are often so rigid his parents struggle to get him dressed. When they put a shirt on him, they must take care not to put too much strain on his arms, otherwise they could come out of their sockets.\u00a0 He is a quadriplegic, his range of motion restrained by a brain injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}