Northwestern University students commute 45-minutes every Saturday to volunteer at a local hippotherapy program called Equestrian Connection. The program is dedicated to the medical use of horseback riding as therapy for patients with movement disorders. Hippotherapy has been shown to improve balance, posture, mobility and function, and also affect psychological, cognitive, behavioral and communication functions for clients of all ages. Junior Miki Sawada founded the hippotherapy program in the fall of 2006 through OASIS, a volunteer organization at Northwestern.

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