{"id":1543,"date":"2012-12-27T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2012-12-27T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T23:22:13","slug":"research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Research may provide support for horse therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1545\" title=\"horse therapy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>New software may capture the data needed to support claims that horse therapy provides tangible therapeutic benefits to children with developmental and cognitive disorders, according to the makers of the Orbis Biomechanical System Integration Suite. Research that quantifies the benefits of horse therapy may help convince insurance companies to cover the treatment, said senior research engineer Cameron Nott. <a href=\"https:\/\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/eduhCertqOCfofwNCidncUCicNvlVX?format=standard\" target=\"_blank\">Longview News-Journal (Texas)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Glenn Evans <a href=\"mailto:gevans@news-journal.com\">gevans@news-journal.com<\/a>Longview News-Journal<!-- AP Content --><\/p>\n<div id=\"blox-story-text\"><!-- (START) Pagination Wrapper --><\/p>\n<div id=\"paging_container\"><!-- (START) Pagination Content Wrapper --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Insurance companies live by numbers, so it\u2019s not enough to hear from an army of parents saying their children with developmental or cognitive disorders are helped by horse therapy.<\/p>\n<p>That might change if research that\u2019s in a high gait at Windridge Equestrian Therapeutic Center of East Texas pans out. Executive Director Margo Dewkett has long said the movements of a walking horse stimulate muscle groups the rider would use while walking if his or her brain were more in control.<\/p>\n<p>This past week, a researcher for a company that developed software to quantify Dewkett\u2019s claim was at the therapy ranch west of the Diana area to train the staff on how to complete that mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantifying the improvements in the riders over a period of time while exposed to this therapy will validate it,\u201d said Cameron Nott, senior research engineer for Orbis, maker of the Orbis Biomechanical System Integration Suite.<\/p>\n<p>OBSIS, as researchers call it, uses motion-capture sensors on the horse and rider to produce a digital image of what\u2019s going on with both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur software takes that information and calculates different biomechanical measures,\u201d said Nott, a doctor of mechanical engineering from South Africa. \u201cWe calculate the joint angles. We calculate the joint power, and then our software collects the data and processes the data. And then it generates a report on the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of hard data that the growing hippotherapy movement can show insurers who typically deny customer requests they cover sessions of horse therapy. (The \u201chippo\u201d comes from Greek roots of the word \u201chorse,\u201d but that probably hasn\u2019t kept insurance claims officers from scratching their heads).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has not been accepted as a formalized form of therapy that insurance companies are willing to pay out,\u201d Nott said. \u201cWe need to show that it works. They say it works, but you really need to show scientific improvement, that there is improvement in the mobility and performance of the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second goal of quantifying the horse and rider relationship is it will set measurable marks that horses must achieve to get their own certification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is sound research, and people are doing it \u2014 we are not the only ones,\u201d Nott said. \u201cBut, Margo has the equipment and facilities to be at the forefront of hippotherapy research. We\u2019ll keep working with them in the future, but they are training themselves to be completely independent and do this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New software may capture the data needed to support claims that horse therapy provides tangible therapeutic benefits to children with developmental and cognitive disorders, according to the makers of the Orbis Biomechanical System Integration Suite. Research that quantifies the benefits of horse therapy may help convince insurance companies to cover the treatment, said senior research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-news","category-human-animal-bond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New software may capture the data needed to support claims that horse therapy provides tangible therapeutic benefits to children with developmental and cognitive disorders, according to the makers of the Orbis Biomechanical System Integration Suite. Research that quantifies the benefits of horse therapy may help convince insurance companies to cover the treatment, said senior research [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Animal Health Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/animalhealthfoundation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Animal Health Foundation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Animal Health Foundation\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Animal Health Foundation\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f475447cd5f132c17522d9188f6fcb9b\"},\"headline\":\"Research may provide support for horse therapy\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\"},\"wordCount\":483,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Horses\",\"Human-Animal Bond\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\",\"name\":\"Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Research may provide support for horse therapy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Animal Health Foundation\",\"description\":\"Our Blog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Animal Health Foundation of California\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Animal Health Foundation of California\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/animalhealthfoundation\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f475447cd5f132c17522d9188f6fcb9b\",\"name\":\"The Animal Health Foundation\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Animal Health Foundation\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/author\/ahfadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation","og_description":"New software may capture the data needed to support claims that horse therapy provides tangible therapeutic benefits to children with developmental and cognitive disorders, according to the makers of the Orbis Biomechanical System Integration Suite. Research that quantifies the benefits of horse therapy may help convince insurance companies to cover the treatment, said senior research [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/","og_site_name":"The Animal Health Foundation","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/animalhealthfoundation\/","article_published_time":"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"The Animal Health Foundation","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Animal Health Foundation","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/"},"author":{"name":"The Animal Health Foundation","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f475447cd5f132c17522d9188f6fcb9b"},"headline":"Research may provide support for horse therapy","datePublished":"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/"},"wordCount":483,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg","articleSection":["Horses","Human-Animal Bond"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/","url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/","name":"Research may provide support for horse therapy | The Animal Health Foundation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg","datePublished":"2012-12-27T23:22:13+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/horse-therapy1-150x150.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/research-may-provide-support-for-horse-therapy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Research may provide support for horse therapy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/","name":"The Animal Health Foundation","description":"Our Blog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"Animal Health Foundation of California","url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"Animal Health Foundation of California"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/animalhealthfoundation\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f475447cd5f132c17522d9188f6fcb9b","name":"The Animal Health Foundation","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/35d2d92234619be7650525ff812317b3c1c8e3d00c51a1bc0e49e7f5ac684f2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Animal Health Foundation"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/author\/ahfadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}