Cutting edge horse simulator is helping riders with disabled

“Do you want to go fast?”

Jayne iMeson already knew that she was going to meet her six -year -old son KC, KC, Central Sainch, Sitting on her new ladder in a park in BCE, BC

He shook his head smiling.

“Always fast – this child loves at his own pace,” said Imeson.

Casey’s general ride is a flying horse called Valla, but on Thursday, he became the first official user of the Mirakolt Horse Riding Motion Simulator developed for Victoria Therputic Riding Association (VTRA).

The first-key-its-type device combines a commercially available riding simulator, with an organization part of the University of Victoria, with an app-based software application designed by the cancest, dedicated to helping people with disabilities.

The system allows riders to control the speed of their simulated ride through a variety of virtual trails. The university says that this is especially aim at the purpose of people unable to ride a real horse.

Casey has a cerebeller attentive that is affecting his muscle control, but he can ride Valla in VTRA, with 13 horses of various sizes and types.

But as KC’s mental smile, he riding a miracle suggested that this was a good option.

The user who stred and speaks on the device, the size of a large suitcase can choose the scene displayed on a screen – a local park, an urban road or Arizona desert.

VTRA Executive Director Lisa Gagel said, “It imits a horse movement.”

“It can go very fast, very fast walking from walking very slowly, and for both physical and mental movement, is actually the most beneficial trick for medical purposes.”

Gagel said that the simulator had a promise to help its organization meet the growing demand, as they are limited by the number of hours, horses and employees.

“So we are trying to find out how we are going to meet the needs of our community, and then the cansist showed at the right time,” he said.

Paul Green, Associate Director of Operations and Technology Development with the cansist, says that the project is an “ideal example” of the cooperation that he prefers to work on.

Green said, “As much fun it can be in a room for me and the tech development team and can start thinking about creating the next largest supporting technology, not how we work.” “We work in response and idea in response to requests from the community.”

It can be an individual with a disability, a physician, a teacher, or organizations such as VTRA, say Green. The Canacist determines whether there is an existing solution, whether it can be modified, or whether they need to be a new design from scratch.

“The project was essentially a combination of that-some of it were present in the context of miraculous mechanical pieces, but connecting it was a cancemist-designed, with a more immersive experience for its customers and participants.”

Around 230 participants participate in the program of Riding Association, Gagel said, 50 more people are waiting.

He would allow simulator riders to heat their muscles and improve core strength, or allow people with practical challenges to release some of their energy before riding a real horse.

Simulator can also easily go to other places.

“We can actually pick it up and take it to a clinic or physiotherapist’s office or people’s homes, if it is a requirement,” Gagel said.

Imeson says that he has seen the benefits of medical ride.

CC is riding with the association for two years, and the improvement “has been really incredible.”

He said that the simulator “does an incredible job of copying the horse movement,” and believes it will help his son to make additional benefits.

“When he is in the session here … he is always improving his abilities and his balance and his motor skills and his awareness,” he said. “This is the jump and boundary.”

The simulator is the third project between the Riding Association and the cancest during a 15 -year collaboration with two local donors, Linda and dead farmers, which covers the entire cost of the project, which is unknown.

Other projects include A Saddle Sit up straight to help a rider with cerebral palsy, and a set of steps with a small ladder that helps the riders to bring on a car for one of the VTRA programs.