Physio, osteopathy, bodywork and rehab — keep them sound and moving well.
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.
Pferdeosteopathie Imke Klopp treats horses with movement problems and rideability issues using gentle osteopathic techniques. Every treatment starts from a gait analysis to find the source of the problem rather than the symptom. Alongside osteopathy she offers physiotherapy modalities including massage, kinesio-taping and leech therapy, and checks saddle and tack fit. She travels regularly through the Gifhorn, Uelzen, Lüneburg, Lüchow-Dannenberg and Wolfsburg districts and is available across northern Germany.
Tierphysio Nord is an equine physiotherapy practice run by Silke Jüngling from Nottensdorf, south of the Elbe in Lower Saxony. She works with a whole-horse approach that draws on physiotherapy and osteopathy, acupuncture, laser therapy and kinesiology taping. Every treatment is tailored to the individual horse and to what its owner can realistically carry out day to day. Training advice is a core part of the service, and she also runs seminars for owners on keeping horses sound into old age.
Tierheilpraxis Zelmer is an animal naturopathy practice in Nordstemmen near Hildesheim treating horses, dogs, cats and small pets. Melanie Dehne-Zelmer specialises in bioresonance therapy and allergy and intolerance testing, alongside Bach flowers, aromatherapy, mycotherapy and low-level laser therapy. Professional teeth cleaning is also offered. Appointments and questions are handled directly by phone or email.
Tanja-Maritta Bick is a VDT-certified animal naturopath working across the Hildesheim and Hannover regions. Her services include equine osteopathy and other osteopathic therapies, stress-point massage, acupuncture, leech therapy, homeopathy, phytotherapy, Schüssler salts, Bach flower therapy and nutritional counselling. She treats each animal as a whole rather than addressing isolated symptoms. Appointments are house and yard visits, so that patients are not stressed by travel to a practice.
Pferdeosteopathie Elfers is the practice of Mareike Elfers, a DIPO-certified equine osteotherapist and qualified human physiotherapist working in and around Nordhorn in the county of Bentheim. She assesses and treats horses osteopathically to support soundness, comfort and performance. Because she also treats people, she can look at horse and rider together where a problem sits on both sides of the saddle. Treatment plans are put together individually for each horse.
Reitschule Junkmann is a riding school and livery yard on the North Sea island of Norderney. It runs guided beach rides to the Weiße Düne and shorter dune rides for beginners, as well as private and group lessons for riders of every level. Children are catered for with led pony rides on a fixed weekly schedule, and the yard also offers riding therapy and school-horse lessons. Livery places with full facility use are available, and the school takes part in the island's tournament calendar.
Tierheilpraxis Nicole Schneider is an animal naturopathy practice in Nordenham treating horses, dogs and cats. She works from the principle of finding the underlying cause of an illness rather than suppressing symptoms, drawing on training from recognised animal-naturopathy academies. Services include gut-health work, homeopathy, phytotherapy, mycotherapy, parasite consultation, massage and lymphatic drainage, laser therapy and nutritional counselling. Leech therapy is a particular focus of the practice.
APM am Tier is the animal therapy practice of Sabine Scholz at Nienhagen near Celle. Her main tool is acupuncture massage along the meridians, supported by physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic work and fascia therapy. Treatment is aimed at horses with movement restrictions, tension or pain, using non-invasive manual techniques throughout. Appointments are arranged by phone or WhatsApp.
moving equine is a mobile equine physiotherapy and hoof-care practice run by Charleen Klein from Adelebsen. She treats sport and leisure horses across the Göttingen, Northeim, Witzenhausen and Kassel areas with massage, stretching, manual therapy and mobilisation work. On the hoof side she offers barefoot trimming plus Goodsmith glue-on shoes and hoof boots. Individual training plans can be drawn up to support rehabilitation and conditioning.
The Horse Concept is an equine osteopathy and saddlery practice at Niederlangen in the Emsland region, run by Björn Stahl. Trained first as a physiotherapist and then as an equine osteopath, he treats horses manually and builds made-to-measure saddles for the horse and rider in front of him. Saddle fitting is backed by pressure-distribution measurement using an impression pad and saddle grid, and used saddles are also sold. Further services include rehabilitation support after injury, osteopathic pre-purchase examinations and preventive check-ups.
