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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Healing Ride

This post covers one of my favorite topics, therapeutic riding. Because of some surgery riding was impossible. I have received comments from others about how therapeutic riding program has been very effective. If you are involved in his type therapy please let me hear from you.

Healing Ride | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "DREW IS KNOWN AS 'PRETTY BOY' — A 12-year-old palomino who used to perform in western pleasure shows.

Now, the gentle horse is helping people improve their health.

He is one of three horses used at RideAbility Therapeutic Riding Center, a nonprofit organization in Florence that helps people with disabilities through supervised horseback riding.

'We work with those who are battling a lot of different things - from autism to cerebral palsy to multiple sclerosis,' says Christy Henderson, executive director and certified instructor at RideAbility. 'Part of our motto is body, mind and spirit, and we truly believe that therapeutic riding helps in all those areas."

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Flu fears push Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp to cancel | NewsOK.com

Flu fears push Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp to cancel | NewsOK.com: "The annual Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp in Guthrie was canceled Friday after campers at other camps in the nation were diagnosed with swine flu.

Eleven of the approximately 1,800 children who have attended camps in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Utah were diagnosed, said Bob Mackle, spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association"

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Action Online » Blog Archive » Wiiiiii!: Adaptive Exercise That’s Actually Fun

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Wiiiiii!: Adaptive Exercise That’s Actually Fun:
From Tiffiny Carlson

"When you can’t move more than half your body, whatever your injury level, it never bodes well when it comes to getting exercise."

At the end of Tiffiny Carlson's article in Action Online Newsletter there other resources