Physio, osteopathy, bodywork and rehab — keep them sound and moving well.
Pferdeosteopathie Lea Abe is a mobile equine practice based at Lindhorst in Lower Saxony. Lea Marie Abe treats horses osteopathically and physiotherapeutically, using manual techniques to restore comfortable, balanced movement. Treatments are carried out at the horse's own yard within a defined catchment area, with rates published in advance. Each horse is assessed individually before a treatment plan is agreed.
Katinka Krages runs an equine osteopathy practice in Lilienthal near Bremen. She treats horses with gentle manual techniques, working towards better rideability, soundness and general wellbeing rather than at a single presenting complaint. Treatment ranges from a single session to longer Happy Horse and Happy Champion programmes. She also gives online training and consultations and teaches courses in biomechanically correct riding.
Islandpferde vom Eekenholm is an Icelandic-horse yard on a farmstead dating from 1821 in Lilienthal-Seebergen, five minutes from Bremen-Borgfeld. Barbara Reichenberger and Ulrike Gast offer boarding in several open-stable groups with direct pasture access, or in large loose boxes with outdoor paddocks, for around forty Icelandic horses and a few larger horses. Facilities include a small indoor school, a sand arena, an oval track, a round pen and a grass arena for in-hand work, with extensive hacking through the Wümme meadows. Riding lessons for children and adults are given on the yard, equine-assisted therapy is offered, and a visiting instructor teaches the classical-academic style.
Leevster Hof is an active-stable yard at Lilienthal near Bremen run by Anne-Kathrin Schleufe-Glandorf, specialising in Icelandic horses and other rare breeds. Livery is organised around species-appropriate group housing with free movement rather than individual boxes. The yard gives riding tuition and takes horses in for schooling, and runs individual training programmes built around each horse. Rehabilitation work and osteopathic treatment are offered alongside the training side.
Barbara Kruse runs a mobile animal naturopathy practice based in Sittensen, travelling to the owner's home or yard so that animals can be assessed in their familiar surroundings. Her treatment methods include phytotherapy, western herbs used within TCM, magnetic field therapy, mycotherapy, laser therapy and nutritional advice, with an individual therapy plan drawn up for each patient. She works alongside the treating vet, physiotherapists, trainers and the farrier rather than in place of them, and stresses that naturopathy complements conventional veterinary care. She also runs seminars for owners. Fees follow the German fee schedule for animal naturopaths, with travel charged per kilometre from Sittensen.
The International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (IAVC) is a private post-graduate teaching institution in Freetz, Lower Saxony, founded by Dr Donald Moffatt and Dr Sybil Moffatt. It trains qualified veterinarians and chiropractors in animal chiropractic, with species-specific basic courses for horses and for dogs. Advanced and CPD modules cover applied kinesiology, cranio-sacral therapy, myofascial kinetic lines, the equine foot and ankle, and Stammer Kinetics. Enrolment is restricted to qualified veterinarians and chiropractors.
Tierärztliche Praxis Moffatt, Seehafer & Schwartau in Sittensen was founded in 1999 and was among the first practices in Europe to offer veterinary chiropractic. The team provides orthopaedic care for horses and small animals, combining chiropractic treatment with acupuncture, diagnostic imaging and conservative rehabilitation. Horses are seen both at the practice and on visits to the yard, and clients travel from across the region and abroad. Preventive musculoskeletal checks form a large part of the work alongside treatment of existing problems.
Mobil + Fit is the mobile equine osteopathy practice of Kirsten Graubohm, a qualified equine osteopath and human physiotherapist based in Braunschweig. She treats horses at their own yard so the animal is not stressed by travelling, offering osteopathic treatment, massage, dry needling and laser therapy. Her regular round covers the greater Braunschweig area together with Wolfenbüttel, Peine, Wolfsburg, Gifhorn and Celle, and further locations on request. Because she also treats people, rider and horse can be looked at together.
Pferdeosteopathie Holz is run by Ina Holz, a licensed veterinarian who also trained as an equine osteopath in the Welter-Böller method and holds IAVC certification in equine and canine chiropractic. Her practice covers the Celle region and combines osteopathy, chiropractic and trauma therapy (VPO) with cranio-sacral, fascial and visceral work. She also offers classical and laser acupuncture, stress-point massage after Jack Meagher, taping and thermal physiotherapy. Movement analysis, tack assessment, feeding advice and training guidance round out the service.
Bianca Lüecke is a DIPO-certified equine osteopath based in Lehrte, east of Hannover. She treats horses on their own yards across the Lehrte, Peine and eastern Hannover area. Osteopathic work targets restrictions in the musculoskeletal system that show up as stiffness, asymmetry or resistance under saddle. Appointments are arranged directly by phone or through the contact form on her site.
Dr. med. vet. Silke Stricker runs a veterinary practice at Lehrte near Hannover devoted to classical homeopathy, phytotherapy and regulation medicine, fields she has specialised in since the 1990s. She works as a visiting practice, coming to the animal at home or at the stable rather than seeing patients at a surgery. Alongside general naturopathic treatment her stated focus areas include metabolic disorders of the horse, gut restoration, plant medicine, behavioural medicine and orthomolecular medicine. She is a member of the International Association of Veterinary Homeopathy and of the homeopathy and phytotherapy sections of the German society for holistic veterinary medicine. Telephone and email consultations are offered alongside visits and are billed under the German veterinary fee schedule.
Healthy Horse Hannover is the equine osteopathy practice of Jennifer Meßing, an osteopathic equine therapist trained in the Welter-Böller method and based at Lehrte near Hannover. She uses holistic manual treatment to find and release movement restrictions and functional disorders. Typical cases range from performance and rideability problems to rehabilitation after injury. She also treats horses of all ages preventively, before a small restriction becomes a lasting one.
Sportpferdetherapie Fricke is Lena Fricke therapy practice for sport horses, based in Lehre near Braunschweig. The work focuses on the strain that training and competition put on a horse body, using physiotherapy and manual techniques to release blockages and relax musculature. Horses returning from an injury layoff are brought back into work step by step. Riders are also coached on movement and training principles so the results hold between treatments.
Equi(e)motion is an equine osteopathy practice run by Janina Starchikow from Lehre, serving the Braunschweig region. Treatment combines osteopathic work with rehabilitation training, from the first day of box rest through to a return to full work. Massage, kinesiology taping and written treatment reports round out the hands-on side of the practice. She also offers osteopathically informed riding and groundwork instruction, equine feeding advice, and online consultations including gait analysis.
Vet-Bioresonanz is the practice of Beatrix Dreyer in Upgant-Schott, East Frisia, offering bioresonance-based hair analysis for horses. Owners send in a hair sample and receive a report covering physical findings alongside behavioural and emotional observations, together with treatment suggestions. Two programmes are available: a standard analysis returned within about fourteen days and an express option within one to three days. Bioresonance therapy sessions are offered as a follow-up to the analysis.
Face to Face is the equine training practice of Ulrike Fischer in Leer, East Frisia, built around the working relationship between horse and rider. Training simulates everyday and deliberately unusual situations so horses gain confidence and riders learn fair, clear leadership. Alongside individual sessions she runs courses and events on horse behaviour and handling. The practice also offers magnetic-field and laser therapy for horses. Her guiding principle is that everything is possible and nothing is compulsory.
Reitverein Siebenberger Strolche e.V. is a riding club founded in 1997 in Leer, East Frisia, with more than 200 members. Trainer-led lessons cover dressage, jumping and quadrille riding, and the club also offers equine-assisted therapy sessions. Horse sponsorships let supporters back a club horse, and hobby-horsing has been added for younger participants. Events run throughout the year and riders of all levels are welcome.
PferdMenschNatur is Britta Redeker's practice in Leer, East Frisia, built around the relationship between horse and handler. On the horse side she offers basic training, groundwork and liberty work, desensitisation, leading and loading training, preparation for farrier and vet visits, and rehabilitation stays for problem horses. She also advises on husbandry, equipment and buying a horse. The practice extends into human coaching and energy work, including horse-assisted coaching, Reiki and kinesiological testing.
Nadine Fourmont runs HPR Ostfriesland, an equine-assisted therapy and riding practice in Leer, East Frisia, established in 2022. She offers curative-educational riding (heilpädagogisches Reiten) for children, young people and adults, alongside ordinary riding lessons and riding coaching. Feldenkrais work combined with riding, leadership coaching and pedagogical trauma counselling round out the programme. Sessions are built around holistic personal development through contact with the horse.
Reit- und Therapiezentrum Kastanienhof at Lauenhagen in Lower Saxony offers horse-assisted therapy and riding education for children, adolescents and adults. It is run by Melanie Smaka, a licensed Heilpraktikerin and riding therapist, and provides trauma-informed support, horse-assisted psychotherapy, body-oriented riding therapy and work on development and self-regulation. Alongside the therapeutic side the centre teaches riding and equestrian pedagogy, including pony groups for very young children and liberty work. Retreats, seminars, coaching and holiday courses round out the programme, and the team works with referring agencies and funding bodies.
Huf und Herz is the equine-assisted therapy and riding-education practice of Insa Döpking in Lauenau, Lower Saxony. She works with children and adults in individual and group sessions, using horses to support early-years learning, speech development, motor skills and confidence. Programmes include school-readiness courses, holiday programmes, birthday sessions and family outings. She also runs team-building workshops and cooperative programmes for schools and companies.
Back In Harmony is the veterinary practice of Dr. med. vet. Eva-Nicole Leimann at Bersenbrück in Lower Saxony, specialising in chiropractic and acupuncture for horses, dogs and cats. The chiropractic work centres on finding and releasing joint blockages and on the pain, posture and performance problems that follow from them. The acupuncture side draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine and uses several different needling and stimulation methods, chosen after a full examination. The practice also offers Low Level Laser Therapy, neural therapy and leech therapy. Dr. Leimann qualified as a veterinarian in Berlin and holds her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin; appointments are arranged by telephone.
Zu den Wiesen is a therapeutic riding practice at Langwedel in Lower Saxony, run by Eva Skrzypczinki. The work centres on therapeutic riding and psychomotor developmental support, using contact with the horse and its movement to help children develop at their own pace. Sessions follow the individual child rather than a fixed lesson plan. Riding instruction and project work with groups are offered alongside the therapy.
Reitschule Ute Limbach, trading as "Zeit mit Pferden", is a riding yard in Etelsen near Langwedel, Lower Saxony. It teaches pony lessons, lunge lessons, group and private instruction and ground work for riders of every age and ability. The yard also offers therapeutic riding for people with disabilities, FN badge courses, competition preparation and support at shows. Livery places are available, and the team runs hobby-horsing sessions and children's birthday parties alongside the core riding programme.
