The nurse recommends to the family of a child with severe cerebral palsy that they enroll their child in hippotherapy. The nurse would explain that hippotherapy includes:
1. Water exercises to increase muscular strength.
2. Use of braces and walkers to support walking.
3. Dietary therapy to maintain a normal weight.
4. Horseback riding, or hippotherapy, improves posture and balance and allows the child to participate in a physical activity.
Rationale 1: Hippotherapy does not involve water exercises.
Rationale 2: Hippotherapy does not involve bracing and the use of walkers.
Rationale 3: Hippotherapy is not related to nutrition.
Rationale 4: True
Global Rationale:
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