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
Andrew Thomas
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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.