“…In the last five years, hippotherapy has gained prominence in the scientific context due to the biopsychosocial benefits provided to the individual by the interaction between man and animal resulting from horse-assisted therapy (Mandrá, Moretti, Avezum, & Kuroishi, 2019). Among them, studies related to the motor, sensory, psycho-emotional and social aspects of individuals, mostly with different commitments, such as brain stroke, multiple sclerosis (Anguita Córdova, González Díaz, Villagra Parra, Navarrete Hidalgo, & Sanhueza Inzunza, 2019) cerebral palsy (PC) (Lopes, Prieto, Santos, Smaili, & Gutierres Filho, 2019;Prieto, Silva, Silva, Santos, & Gutierres Filho, 2018), Down syndrome (SD) (Chaves & Almeida, 2018;Ribeiro et al, 2016) among other disabilities and/or syndromes (Sônego, Cavalante, Souza, & Quaggio, 2018;Zamo & Trentini, 2016 ). However, research involving specific groups such as healthy young people (Rigoni, Paiva, & Souza, 2017) and elderly (Diniz et al, 2020;Araujo et al, 2018) without comorbidities has also shown its relevance in the context of equine-assisted therapy.…”