WARD, Arkansas — During the spring, rising Cabot junior, Brannon McMinn, can be found on the track. These days, he's taking a different type of lap. "Some of them, this is the most fun thing they do ...

Students at Rice University create a special robot to help patients get equine-based therapy without needing a real horse. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and ...

Baylor University researchers have devised a mechanical horse that can provide hippotherapy for children and adults with physical and mental impairments without them having to mount a real horse.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- At a peaceful ranch on the outskirts of the suburbs, where barn cats and peacocks roam freely, Army Sgt. Michael Buccieri, grooms Davis, a 6-year-old, ex-race horse. The repetitive, ...

You can almost literally ride out your physical or psychological difficulties, claim proponents of hippotherapy, now gaining popularity in the West, BBC reports. “Hippotherapy increased mobility and ...

PARKER, Colo. (CBS4) - On the outskirts of Parker sits a ranch dedicated to changing lives. Praying Hands Ranch is a powerful place that has touched the family of CBS4 Sports Anchor Tom Helmer in a ...

LINCOLN -- Erica Villines found hope in a horse for a more normal life for her 4-year-old daughter Paizley. Paizley lives with spina bifida, a spinal defect that can cause disabilities with movement.

WEXFORD (KDKA) - If there has been something consistent in helping relieve stress during these difficult times, it's four-legged friends. However, in Wexford, it's not your typical dogs and cats ...

VERONA -- More than 100 cars lined Rock Road by noon Saturday as local residents turned out for the Fun at the Farm celebration held at The Root Farm, a horse farm that offers equine assisted ...

Mark Samuels, a captain in the Navy, and Jennifer, his wife, never imagined their first time in court would be fighting for healthcare benefits for their daughter Kaitlyn. The 15-year-old was born ...

A fundraiser for The Bridge Center in Bridgewater’s hippotherapy program will take place from 7 p.m. to midnight Nov. 8 at ...