Bring More Possibilities to Your Equine Program
Trusted by over 60 certified Equine-Assisted Therapy and Learning facilities, the MiraColt™ is the ultimate complement to live horse programs. It’s a great prep tool for new riders, helps alleviate horse burnout by enabling rest days or complementary activities, shortens waitlists so more people can be served, and keeps programs open when it’s too hot or cold to ride. It also expands therapeutic possibilities as a platform tool that requires less manpower and supervision.
Add More Ways to Serve Your Participants
Bring walking-gait movement into your own activity space and shape it around the people, skills and schedules your program supports.
Keep Sessions Moving Indoors
Offer planned movement sessions indoors when weather, horse availability or arena access changes your schedule.
Build Skills for Participation
Use supported sitting, reaching and weight shifting to make movement purposeful. Your team can choose activities connected to a participant’s riding or therapy goals.
Extend Your Program’s Reach
Offer an additional movement option for participants who cannot always join a live-horse session, with activities and support matched to the person.
Connect Riding Motion With Purposeful Activities
Start with the rider’s goal. Put MiraColt’s rhythmic movement to work in purposeful activities, then observe and document the rider’s response.
Train With the Rhythm of Walking
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt’s multimodal walking-pattern motion provides repeated practice opportunities for pelvic movement, weight shifts and trunk alignment.
- Try in a Session
- Offer guided position changes and weight shifts in time with the motion, adapted to the rider’s support needs.
- Work Toward
- Comfort with the movement pattern and controlled weight shifts relevant to the rider’s wider goals.
- Observe and Document
- Positioning, support required and how the rider responds during and after the activity.
Respond to a Moving Base
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt’s rhythmic motion surface prompts adjustments through the rider’s pelvis, trunk and upper body to maintain an upright position.
- Try in a Session
- Pair the riding motion with supported reaching or simple changes in hand position.
- Work Toward
- Postural organization and control during purposeful riding activities.
- Observe and Document
- Alignment, recovery after a reach and the amount of support required.
Build Activities Around Trunk Control
- MiraColt Benefit
- Responding to MiraColt’s rhythmic, multidirectional movement engages the trunk muscles that support posture and provide a steady base for riding activities.
- Try in a Session
- Add supported reaching and gentle changes in position while keeping the task manageable for the rider.
- Work Toward
- Trunk control and a stable base for using the arms and hands.
- Observe and Document
- Upright positioning, endurance within the activity and changes in assistance.
Connect Movement With a Purpose
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt’s ongoing riding motion adds a dynamic challenge to tasks that train reaching, timing and coordinated use of both sides of the body.
- Try in a Session
- Use a simple target, object hand-off or two-handed activity timed to the movement.
- Work Toward
- Coordinated responses and participation in meaningful tasks.
- Observe and Document
- Timing, accuracy, bilateral use and the prompts or help needed.
Deliver Movement Input With a Purpose
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt’s rhythmic riding motion delivers vestibular and proprioceptive input as the rider practices recognizing body position and responding to movement.
- Try in a Session
- Pair predictable movement with a familiar activity, adjusting the task and support to the rider’s response.
- Work Toward
- Body awareness and comfortable engagement with changing movement input.
- Observe and Document
- Comfort, attention, signs of overload or fatigue, and the rider’s ability to participate.
Make Riding Motion Approachable
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt provides a controlled, predictable introduction to riding motion and builds familiarity through supported participation.
- Try in a Session
- Start with a familiar activity and a manageable introduction to the motion, supporting choice and opportunities for success.
- Work Toward
- Willingness to take part and growing familiarity with the riding experience.
- Observe and Document
- Initiation, engagement, preferences and the reassurance or prompts needed.
Prepare for a Live-Horse Experience
- MiraColt Benefit
- MiraColt provides a controlled setting to practice riding positions, adapt to riding motion and rehearse movement responses before a live-horse experience.
- Try in a Session
- Rehearse familiar riding positions and simple instructions, then coordinate the next steps with the live-horse team.
- Work Toward
- Familiarity and readiness for a supported introduction to a live-horse setting.
- Observe and Document
- Positioning, comfort with motion and communication needs to share with the team.
Plan activities around the rider, setting and program goals. Coordinate clinical goals with the treating professional and live-horse preparation with the riding team.
The Motion You Value, in a Repeatable Form
The MiraColt™ combines three translations and three rotations to closely reproduce a horse’s rhythmic walking motion. This changing base of support creates opportunities for activities involving active postural adjustment, balance and coordination.
Why ROCK Uses the MiraColt™
An Additional Route to Participation
At ROCK in Georgetown, Texas, the MiraColt™ is part of a broader program that includes therapy services and therapeutic riding. Founder and physical therapist Nancy Krenek describes how its walking-gait motion adds an option for children who may be unable to ride a live horse.
Build a Plan Around Your Participants
Bring us your setting, goals and practical questions. Review the device, access arrangements and product options with our team.
Choose the Participants and Goals
Identify the participants and activities you want to support. For hippotherapy, connect device use with the treating clinician’s individualized plan.
Plan Access and Supervision
Review space, mounting and transfers, support needs and staff orientation. Agree who supervises each session and how positioning and speed will be adapted.
Make the Movement Purposeful
Combine the moving base with reaching, weight shifting and coordinated tasks. Record the participant’s response and refine the next session.
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