Horses Helping Veterans With PTSD

Horses Helping Veterans With PTSD
Dr. Yuval Neria (C) with one of the horses at Bergen Equestrian Center. Courtesy of the Man O' War Project
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For many of our military veterans, it’s difficult to go to war and return home as the same person. Our service members often experience traumatic, life-changing events during their deployments, and the scars from those experiences can manifest as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Researchers at Columbia University are now experimenting with equine-assisted therapy as one form of treatment.