Re: Riding therapy and what I do

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> From: Palm <southernyankee7457@...>

> Subject: [HeidiLiane] Riding therapy...and Tai Chi

> HeidiLiane

> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11:26 PM

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> Sue,

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> The riding doesn't hurt your hands

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> your

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> knees? Sometimes when I sit at the

> computer too long, esp when I'm doing bills, my hands hurt to move

them,

> and my knees are so stiff I walk all crippled up.

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> I can see where the muscles would be strengthened, though, but I

guess

> I'd have to do it in moderation.

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> The local gym here offers what I think is Tai Chi classes, or

something

> similar. They tell me it is good for people recovering from

strokes,

> etc.

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> From: Urbanczyk <featherednst@...>

> Subject: Re: [HeidiLiane] Re: Games for us

> HeidiLiane

> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3:56 AM

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> At my local community and senior center I am doing Tai Chi starting

in

> Feb.. Talk about something wonderful for your balance, soothing for

you

> nerves, gentle but toning,very good for pain. I have done it many

time

> before and there are always seniors in the class. Many of the Tai

Chi

> masters are in advanced stages of age but still very agile with

amazing

> balance.

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> I I have found it to be very helpful with pain and balance.

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> I know I have said this before and NOT ONE person said a word back

to me

> but I am telling you all, and this I know about, therapeutic riding

> centers deal with all kinds of people. There is a woman in my barn

who

> is in a wheelchair and she rides to help with her pain,her

balance,her

> strength and her stress. I admire her so but to tell you the truth,

> wheelchair or not, I would do the same.

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> My mini came from a little girl with MS so she could keep up her

muscle

> strength. I teach a girl with NVLD and we work on her muscle

strength

> and balance. Riding in with a therapeutic instructor does wonders

for

> balance,pain, memory and depression. Horses used in these programs

seem

> to know you are hurting and are great healers and very gentle. I

know it

> is outside the box but sometimes getting out of your living room

into a

> new situation does amazing things.

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> Sue

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