Click to play videoBangalore: Manish is a celebral palsy patient, and his therapist is a horse named High Range to help him in the counseling session.
High Range like many other horses has been helping physically and mentally challenged children in Bangalore for more than seven years.
Horses are therapeutic as their rhythmic movement is similar to the human gait and the animal's body heat acts as physiotherapy for a child's stiff muscles.
"More than 80 per cent of the child's problems are cured through this therapy," says a participant’s mother, Dr Manisha Krishna.
Other than horse therapy, there is also dance therapy that is helping patients overcome their disabilities.
The therapy helps in co-ordination of various body parts and increases concentration. And with 80 per cent success rate, participants seem to have found a new rhythm to life.
And far away from horses and dance steps, horticulture therapy is also spreading its roots in the city, which is nothing but simple gardening. A technique put to good use by the city’s horticulture therapists as occupational therapy.
They may be unconventional and out of the box therapies, yet they are showing results.
And with the more and more differently abled persons opting for such alternative methods, the traditional psychiatrists listening couch seems to be forgotten as of now
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