
07 Oct 027 Rebecca Cook: Hippotherapy – Therapeutic Riding And Private Practice
Rebecca Cook is an occupational therapist and owner of a private therapy practice called The Right Step. She has 25 years of specialized experience in therapy and teaching horseback riding lessons. She has a slew of certifications from courses that she has taken over the years. Rebecca also provides Myofascial Release and Craniosacral Therapy. What she really enjoys though is providing therapy using a horse or “Hippotherapy”. Unlike therapeutic horseback riding which teaches the skills of riding a horse, Hippotherapy uses the movement of the horse as a means to therapy treatment and to reach specific therapy treatment goals.
What you will learn
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Difference between Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding
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How to become a certified Hippotherapist
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How to become a certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor
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Why Rebecca chose private practice to provide Hippotherapy
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How she transitioned from her full time job to private practice
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How she marketed her practice and acquired Hippotherapy clients
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Her biggest source for referrals
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Why Rebecca dissolved her partnership with her business partner
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The part she played in Hippotherapy research at the University of Michigan
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What type of documentation system she uses for her paperwork
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Does private insurance cover Hippotherapy?
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How she branched out and provided other types of therapy
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The different types of therapy packages she offers
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The automatic online scheduler she uses
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Her experience billing Medicare for Hippotherapy
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Her published research in AOTA on the effects of Hippotherapy on patients with Parkinson’s
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The books she has written about how to open a Hippotherapy private practice
Links
Rebecca’s books on Amazon on how to start a Hippotherapy private practice
American Hippotherapy Association
Small Business Administration
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SCORE – Business Mentoring
Rebecca’s Therapy Practice Websites
The Right Step
Transformational Massage Therapy
Rebecca’s Linkedin Page
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