Equinotherapy: AVENTURA EN PATAGONIA together with COAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES FOR THE HANDICAPPED do equinotherapy for the handicapped. The horse is an animal strongly attached to man since the far distant past. Its beauty, intelligence and capacity for work, but above all its loyalty and companionship to people, make this animal an ideal ally. A zootherapy program that includes horses (equine) is called equinotherapy or hippotherapy (hippo: horse). Equinotherapy or hippotherapy means using the horse as a means of rehabilitation since the movement of the animal pushes the pubis and trunk of the rider, pushes that turn into stimulus very similar to those of walking.