Equine therapy can even help people boost self-esteem or cope with social stress.

马疗法甚至能帮助人们提高自尊或应对社会压力。

Equine therapy is also called hippotherapy — which makes sense if you know that " hippopotamus" translates to " river horse."

马疗法也称为河马疗法，因为“hippopotamus”的意思就是“河马”。

But equine therapy seems to work best if you're treating someone with more medical symptoms.

但如果你治疗的是有更多医学症状的人，马疗法似乎效果最好。

But although there are all kinds of horse-based therapies out there, equine therapy doesn't seem ideal for everything.

尽管有各种各样的马疗法，但它似乎并不适合所有人。

Instead, equine therapy seems to be special because horses exist in a class all their own.

相反，马疗法似乎很特别，因为马本身属于一类。

Although research is ongoing, early evidence has shown that equine therapy seems to help with everything from cerebral palsy to autism.

尽管研究仍在进行中，但早期证据表明马疗法似乎对从脑瘫到自闭症的所有疾病都有帮助。

Like, for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, equine therapies have been shown to reduce trauma symptoms and anxiety.

例如，对于创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的患者，马疗法经证明可以减少创伤症状和焦虑。

One randomized trial followed 15 kids who spent time in an equine therapy group, and they learned things like grooming and riding.

一项随机试验追踪15名参与马治疗小组的孩子，他们学到诸如理毛和骑马之类的知识。

Another similar study tried equine therapy with 19 kids and compared them to a control group of 15 who were on a waitlist.

另一项类似的研究尝试用马疗法治疗19名儿童，并将他们与15名候补名单上的对照组进行比较。

We love our dogs. We love our cats. And you might have heard of equine therapy, working with horses to help treat mental health conditions.

我们都喜欢狗子和喵星人。大家可能听说过马术治疗法，即与马在一起，以帮助治疗心理健康问题。