Physio, osteopathy, bodywork and rehab — keep them sound and moving well.
CW Elite Cow Horses offers a range of services including horse training, equine therapy, and horse sales. They specialize in ranch cutting and reined cow horses. The facility also provides lessons and clinics to enhance horse and rider performance.
Horse Feathers Equine Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of horses. They provide specialized care for neglected and abused horses, focusing on rehabilitation and adoption. The center also offers educational programs and volunteer opportunities for those interested in equine care.
Hope Retreat Ranch provides therapeutic riding programs for adults and children with disabilities. The ranch focuses on enriching lives through horsemanship and nature. They also offer programs for disadvantaged youth to gain work experience. The ranch serves the community by providing opportunities for interaction with therapy horses.
Riding with Hope provides equine-assisted services aimed at empowering individuals with disabilities. They offer therapeutic riding lessons and equine-assisted activities, including grooming and learning about horses. The facility cares for a herd of horses that play a vital role in their programs, ensuring they receive the necessary care and support.
Rise Again Equine Therapy provides specialized equine therapy services, including bodywork and farrier services. They focus on a whole-horse approach, considering various aspects of equine health such as hoof care, muscle alignment, and overall well-being. Their offerings include equine sports massage therapy and balanced barefoot trimming, aimed at enhancing the performance and soundness of horses.
Hoofbeats For Hope provides equine-assisted activities designed for kids and adults with special needs. The program focuses on improving physical, social, and communication skills through therapeutic riding. Participants experience physical, emotional, and mental benefits from horseback riding, which helps enhance strength and flexibility. The organization is PATH certified and offers services for all ages.
Flying M Ranch and Therapeutic Services provides therapeutic services for horses and dogs, utilizing FDA approved instruments for healing and performance enhancement. The ranch focuses on holistic resource management and has a background in equine science. They offer limited mobile services and work alongside veterinarians and farriers to optimize treatments for animals.
Reins of Hope is a not-for-profit therapeutic horseback riding program that enhances the lives of students with disabilities. The program focuses on providing individuals with disabilities a better quality of life through therapeutic riding. The gentle motion of the horse helps improve physical and emotional skills, creating a special bond between horse, rider, instructor, and volunteers.
Overcross Counseling and Equine Services specializes in mental health counseling that incorporates equine therapy. They offer individual, family, and group counseling sessions, focusing on developing social intelligence through interactions with horses. The founder, Kimberly Whayne, combines her experience with horses and counseling to help clients improve their mental health.
Human and Horse Physio provides physiotherapy services for both horses and riders in Brasschaat. They focus on addressing physical and psychological issues that arise from riding and horse care. The practice offers tailored treatments for horses recovering from injuries or experiencing stress, as well as support for riders dealing with physical complaints. Their goal is to help both horse and rider achieve balance and improve their performance together.
Equilibrium Therapeutic Riding provides therapeutic riding lessons tailored for individuals with disabilities. The program focuses on horsemanship skills, including preparing the horse for riding, which aids in developing coordination and achieving therapeutic goals. Sessions are available in various time slots, and the program emphasizes the benefits of improved mobility, balance, and self-confidence.
Reithalle St. Martin is an indoor riding facility in Papenburg, in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. Its team has many years of experience in handling and schooling horses, and the day-to-day work centres on horses trained for therapeutic riding. A large lunging ring was built next to the riding hall in 2016; its natural surface offers good grip and secure footing, and training elements such as a water ditch give the horses varied work. Horses schooled on the yard, at a range of training levels, are also offered for sale with individual advice for buyers. The office is staffed Monday to Friday, with viewings outside those hours by appointment.
CS-Tierphysiotherapie is the practice of Christin Stelling in Oyten, Lower Saxony, treating horses and dogs. She offers animal physiotherapy, chiropractic treatment and Dorn therapy. Treatment is given on a mobile basis to horses at their own yard.
Horse & Physio Fit is an equine rehabilitation and physiotherapy practice at Morsum near Thedinghausen, run as a GbR by Julia Scharke and Victoria Rahn. It handles rehabilitation after injury or surgery, physiotherapy for horse and rider, training guidance and the schooling of young horses. Treatment combines equipment such as a vibration plate, solarium and BEMER with manual work including kinesiotaping and trigger-point therapy. The practice works closely with veterinarians on each case.
Pferdeosteopathie Paula Bischoff is an equine osteopathy and physiotherapy practice based in Fischerhude near Bremen. Paula Bischoff combines a professional background in human physiotherapy with FN-recognised training in equine physiotherapy. Treatments offered are equine osteopathy, equine physiotherapy and kinesiology taping for horses. She works on a mobile basis around Ottersberg and the Bremen area, and gift vouchers are available.
Salzkammer-Gut is an equine wellness and rehabilitation yard on the North Sea coast at Otterndorf in Lower Saxony. Its centrepiece is a salt chamber in which horses and ponies inhale a medical salt aerosol, used to support respiratory, skin and immune conditions. The yard also offers rehabilitation and holiday livery in small pasture groups, hoof care, riding instruction from lunge lessons upwards, groundwork and desensitisation training, and starting and corrective training of horses. Spa packages combine salt therapy with a movement programme, and a mobile desensitisation course can be booked on tour.
Sophie Kück offers equine physiotherapy and osteopathy in the Osterholz-Scharmbeck area. A first appointment runs about 90 minutes to two hours and covers case history, saddle and equipment assessment, a gait analysis in hand, on the lunge and under saddle, and treatment with gentle techniques to release blockages. Follow-up sessions build on those impulses, since deeper restrictions usually take more than one visit to resolve. She also teaches riding lessons focused on the rider seat and body awareness, on the principle that rider position and equine restriction feed each other.
Dr Barbara Lindenberg runs a veterinary practice for chiropractic and acupuncture serving the Osterholz-Scharmbeck area of Lower Saxony. Treatment is currently offered for horses only; canine appointments are suspended. Chiropractic and osteopathic technique is used to restore natural movement and balance, with acupuncture available as a complementary approach. She is licensed through the Lower Saxony veterinary chamber.
FreiGefühl is a horse-assisted therapy practice run as a sole proprietorship by Michelle Metscher in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Lower Saxony. It offers equine-assisted therapy sessions both outdoors and in a covered indoor space, alongside ordinary riding lessons. Holiday programmes give younger clients a longer block of time with the horses. The practice also trains other practitioners through its own FreiGefühl riding-therapist certification course. A separate everyday-support service covers household help, care and accompaniment for clients who need it.
Reit- und Fahrverein Scharmbeckstotel e.V. is a riding and driving club at Am Heuplatz in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Lower Saxony. Alongside conventional riding and driving it runs an unusually broad therapeutic programme, including hippotherapy, therapeutic vaulting and individual psychomotor sessions. The club offers leisure activities for disabled and non-disabled participants together and supports competitive riding for people with disabilities. It also hosts tournaments and makes its facilities available to members.
Hof Reynsla is a small farm on the edge of Osterholz-Scharmbeck where Neele Schnirring offers curative-educational work with horses (heilpaedagogisches Arbeiten mit Pferden). Sessions cover the whole business of being around a horse - leading it correctly, grooming, and first exercises in the saddle - taught individually and in a deliberately calm setting. New participants start with a trial lesson, after which weekly individual sessions or small groups of up to four are agreed. Multi-day holiday courses for children run from 10:00 to 16:00 and combine riding with looking after the horses. The horses live in an open stable and are hacked out, lunged and worked in hand by Neele herself so they stay settled for the sessions; an indoor school, outdoor arena and hacking country are available.
Reittherapie Berg is a therapeutic riding practice run by Sabrina Berg at Ostercappeln in the Osnabrück district. It offers curative-education riding (heilpädagogisches Reiten) and riding therapy for children and adults, either one to one or in small groups. Children's programmes combine riding instruction with confidence and motor-skill work, while adult sessions focus on relaxation and stress relief. New clients start with a short introductory appointment before a course of therapy is agreed.
Annika Puur Paard is an equestrian training and coaching practice at Scheemda in the Dutch province of Groningen. It offers educational riding lessons, groundwork and long-reining, trailer loading and stress-release work, and guidance for youngsters and foals. Alongside the horse work it runs equine-assisted coaching and therapy for people, plus Neuro-Emotional Integration sessions. Rehabilitation training for horses coming back into work and general welfare advice complete the programme.
Beterdier is an animal practice for osteopathy and complementary veterinary medicine working across the northern Netherlands. Horses are treated for movement problems, back complaints, skin conditions and digestive trouble, with the practice looking for the underlying cause rather than only the visible symptom. Treatment is given at the home base in Nieuw Beerta and at partner yards including Manege HJ Cazemier in Tolbert, South Side Stables in Appelscha and Stal Oude Meerdijk in Emmen. Where it helps the case, the practice works alongside conventional vets, equine dentists, saddle fitters and behaviour therapists.
