The territory shines for the quality and excellence of the offer: from Down syndrome to physical disabilities you work with experts
BAIRO. Hippotherapy, or the set of medical techniques that use the horse to improve the health of a human subject, is a Canavese excellence. A dozen riding schools in the hills of the Eporediese and the Upper Canavese, up to the Calusiese and the Chivassese, have adopted it for years and make highly qualified and specialized personnel available to patients. Real staff able to follow patients with slight or marked physical or intellectual disabilities and achieve extraordinary results: improvements in physicality and learning, mood and behavior certified also from a medical point of view.
La Rolanda, a historic farmhouse transformed into a riding school by the passion of a local entrepreneur in the field of quality catering, Gianfranco Brassea, for example, has become a point of reference at national level both for the competitive results of its athletes and for the activities related to people with disabilities who regularly hosts and follows with professional instructors such as Verena Caratti and Marica Materazzo of the Rubens association. Other structures in Canavese are equally qualified and now all operate with highly specialized personnel.
The aim, for everyone, is to offer concrete help to people with disabilities to overcome psychophysical obstacles and give moments of serenity, cutting-edge educational techniques to make children learn respect for animals and the right approach with them. This, for example, is the mission of the association, Rubens non-profit organization very active throughout the Canavese area and closely linked to social policies and charitable initiatives promoted by the Lions club.
At Bairo Verena Caratti and Marica Materazzo work with over forty patients of all ages and with very different psychophysical situations: from disabilities related to walking problems to subjects, children and adults, suffering from Down syndrome, learning disorders, autism. For each of them there is a personalized program.
To understand what lies behind it, it is necessary to know that Rubens, who mainly deals with animal assisted interventions, has a multidisciplinary team composed of psychologists, psychotherapists, ethologists, biologists, psychiatric rehabilitation therapists, motor rehabilitation therapists and equestrian technicians. . “All these professional skills to take care of boys and girls, men and women who, trivially, through hippotherapy improve their lives sometimes radically, sometimes significantly – say the leaders of the association – The relationship with the horse is at the center of our philosophy because entering into a relationship with such an instinctive, sincere and pure animal gives us so much and teaches us so much. The aim is therefore to offer re-education, psycho-physical rehabilitation and social and work reintegration programs in order to help and improve the quality of life of people in difficulty and support their families. The horse is a mediator and co-therapist essential in all rehabilitation and educational processes “.