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Employing horses in a working farm environment, Challenge Unlimited at Ironstone Farm provides beneficial therapy for people with a wide range of physical, emotional and cognitive disabilities. It uses the horse’s unique ability to enhance a person’s movements and touch a person’s heart, inspiring strength, hope and encouragement.
The farm’s professional staff of over 20 licensed instructors and therapists work with 35 program horses and more than 200 volunteers to serve about 450 children and adults each week, year round. Coming from more than 90 cities and towns throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire, participants enjoy the aesthetic beauty of the farm while receiving valuable therapy in collaboration with other service providers to best address their physical and emotional needs.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

1. Alzheimer disease
2. Animal-assisted activities
3. Animal-assisted therapies
4. Autism
5. Cancer
6. Farms
7. Health
8. Horses
9. Mammals
10. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
11. veterans