Hippotherapy and feline therapy. How do animals heal people?

Decem­ber 03, 2017, 20:27

Hap­py pet own­ers live longer, get sick less often and smile much more often. It turns out that ani­mals help cure var­i­ous dis­eases.

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Cat own­ers are less prone to stress, and dog own­ers do not suf­fer from phys­i­cal inac­tiv­i­ty due to dai­ly walks in the fresh air. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion with our small­er broth­ers charges us with pos­i­tive ener­gy and is good for health. Ani­mals also come to the aid of doc­tors for the treat­ment of var­i­ous dis­eases.

Felinotherapy

The direc­tion of med­i­cine, when mus­ta­chioed purrs are involved in the treat­ment, is called feline ther­a­py. More­over, experts say that abil­i­ties depend on the gen­der and breed of the pet. Cats treat dis­eases of the ner­vous sys­tem, and cats heal osteo­poro­sis, sci­at­i­ca, arthro­sis.
Long-haired cats, such as Per­sian and Ango­ra, help with depres­sion and insom­nia. Short-haired make life eas­i­er for cores. And Siamese and naked sphin­x­es treat dis­eases of inter­nal organs. A cat’s purr acts like an ultra­sound in the range from 27 to 44 Hz, and it is this vibra­tion that helps to strength­en and grow bones by 20%. At the same time, blood cir­cu­la­tion improves and blood pres­sure sta­bi­lizes.

hippotherapy

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Hip­pother­a­py — ther­a­peu­tic rid­ing — helps with dis­eases of the mus­cu­loskele­tal sys­tem, cir­cu­la­to­ry and diges­tive organs. Dur­ing a horse ride, pas­sive move­ments occur in the mus­cles, spine and joints in the human body: the mus­cles are trained, and the rid­er does not get tired. But horse­back rid­ing is con­traindi­cat­ed for peo­ple suf­fer­ing from inter­ver­te­bral her­nia and who have recent­ly had a stroke or heart attack.

The Benefits of Animals for Children

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It has been proven that chil­dren who have pets make friends more eas­i­ly and enjoy more love from class­mates. They even do bet­ter in school. Sci­en­tists explain this fact by the fact that the pres­ence of an ani­mal in the room while the child is doing home­work calms him down and gives him a sense of self-con­fi­dence and self-con­fi­dence.
Many peo­ple have to give up pets due to aller­gies to wool. How­ev­er, aller­gies are often “acquired” in adult­hood. But accord­ing to stud­ies, hav­ing two or more pets in the house reduces the risk of aller­gies in chil­dren. 77% of chil­dren liv­ing in fam­i­lies with pets show a high­er resis­tance to aller­gies than their peers who do not have pets. So it is also a kind of “hard­en­ing of immu­ni­ty”!

Edi­tor’s advice. Accord­ing to leg­end, it was a woman who first brought a cat into the house a thou­sand years ago. Since then, there has been a spe­cial emo­tion­al con­nec­tion between them. If some­thing hurts you, the cat will def­i­nite­ly lie on the sore spot, when you are sad, it will come to con­sole you. When you just pet your pet, your blood pres­sure nor­mal­izes and your headache goes away.

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