13 year old Ben Finkelstein rides a horse at Lovelane Special Needs Riding Program in Lincoln, MA (Photo Credit: Ron Pownall)

Therapeutic Horseback Riding
Date: 3/19/2005

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For the past 17 years, special needs children have been taught to walk, canter, and trot at Lovelane, a therapeutic horseback riding center west of Boston. In that time, not only have programs like Lovelane grown exponentially, but the science behind hippotherapy has grown as well. Bill Littlefield meets with the children, therapists, and horses that help cowboys and cowgirls walk and--sometimes--talk

Learn more about the Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program. Find therapeutic riding centers across the country through the North American Riding for the Handicap Association.

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