Fiona the World-Famous Hippo | Cincinnati Zoo

🐴 Have you ever thought, “What is HIPPOTHERAPY?” Well, we did, and thanks to our dedicated Midwestern University Glendale- Occupational Therapy students making the trek out to The Barn in Goodyear, AZ, we learned a few things, for example. 1) Hippotherapy (from the Greek word hippos, meaning “horse”) is a physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy treatment strategy that uses the characteristic movement of a horse as a tool to help patients achieve functional goals. 2) It is not a ridi

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