{"id":5745,"date":"2012-09-11T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:59:45","slug":"horse-is-therapeutic-for-boy-with-cerebral-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-is-therapeutic-for-boy-with-cerebral-palsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse is therapeutic for boy with cerebral palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When doctors told 13-month-old Ryan Woods\u2019 parents that their little guy had cerebral palsy, they mobilized for action.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle and Bradley set out to find each and every therapy that might be beneficial for their son. Ryan\u2019s physical therapist and developmental specialist both mentioned hippotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Taken literally, the word means horse-assisted treatment. The American Hippotherapy Association (AHA) defines it as a term referring to the use of the movement of the horse as a strategy to address impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities in patients with neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did it work wonders for Ryan\u2019s body, but it gives him a special kind of joy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/article\/20120908\/NEWS01\/309080055\/Horse-therapeutic-boy-cerebral-palsy?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs&amp;gcheck=1&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When doctors told 13-month-old Ryan Woods\u2019 parents that their little guy had cerebral palsy, they mobilized for action.<\/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-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/8542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}