The subject of this paper is „Therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities“. At the beginning of the paper, it is explained how therapeutic horseback riding has developed throughout history and why it has attracted the attention of the media, health professionals and others. Furthermore, paper continues with listing physical impairments as an indication and contraindication for therapeutic horseback riding. Therapeutic horseback riding rehabilitation goals are also emphasized. As horseback riding itself is a broad concept and has a number of different ways of application for both rehabilitation and recreation, paper covers its key divisions: hippotherapy, health and pedagogical, voltage, sports and recreational horseback riding. For people with disabilities there are different names often heard in the media. In order to achieve less stigmatizing terminology, for adults it is used the term „person with disabilities“, while the term „children with developmental disorders“ is used for children. The impact of therapeutic horseback riding on these groups of people is briefly explained, while the following are several diseases for which therapeutic horseback riding has proven to be a good rehabilitation method in order to improve health. In addition to alleviating the symptoms of the disease, therapeutic horseback riding also has physical, psychological, social, and educational effects. At the very end of the paper, some publicly available studies on the impact of therapeutic horseback riding on health are analyzed, in which the goal was to determine the effects of therapeutic horseback riding on different age groups with different developmental difficulties.