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Equine therapy

Physio, osteopathy, bodywork and rehab — keep them sound and moving well.

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TGU Garthe

Moormerland, Germany

TGU Garthe, short for Tiergestützter Unterricht, is run by Sabine Garthe in Moormerland, East Frisia, and works with children through riding pedagogy rather than technical riding tuition alone. Sessions include play-based riding for children and young people, therapeutic riding for those with special needs, a pony club and relaxation riding. Group programmes are offered to schools and other institutions, along with children's birthday parties and hacks. Natural, species-appropriate handling of the horses underpins everything on offer, and courses also run with VFD Ostfriesland.

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Equimove Ostfriesland

Moormerland, Germany

Equimove Ostfriesland is a mobile osteopathy and physiotherapy practice run by Tatjana de Buhr across East Frisia. Horses are the main caseload, treated with manual and fascial therapy, dry needling, kinesiology taping and leech therapy. Dogs, cats and cattle are also seen within a service radius of roughly 25 kilometres. Equikinetics and dual-activation groundwork are offered as follow-on training to consolidate treatment results.

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Equigampo - Ganzheitliches Arbeiten mit Pferden Ostfriesland (Andrea Kotulla-Möhlmann)

Moormerland, Germany

Equigampo is a mobile riding-instruction and equine therapy business run by Andrea Kotulla-Möhlmann across East Frisia. Lessons follow a three-part teaching model covering theory, groundwork and ridden work, with the horse's health and correct movement as the starting point. Alongside teaching she offers equine physiotherapy and osteopathy for horses that need hands-on treatment. Clinics and courses are run at client yards throughout the northern districts she covers.

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Friederike von Basum

Meppen, Germany

Friederike von Basum runs a mobile osteopathy practice for horses and dogs from Meppen in the Emsland district of Lower Saxony. She trained first as an osteopathic equine therapist and then as an osteopathic canine therapist at the Fachschule für Osteopathische Pferde- und Hundetherapie, where she has worked as an assistant since December 2015. Treatment combines manual osteopathy with dry needling, BEMER magnetic-field therapy and leech therapy. Sessions take place at the horse's own yard so the animal stays in familiar surroundings. She is a member of the DGOP and attends regular professional training.

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Equifit-Emsland

Hünteler Str. 3, 49716 Meppen, Germany

Equifit-Emsland is a mobile practice specializing in equine osteopathy, established in 2017. They provide individual osteopathic care for sport, leisure, and senior horses, focusing on preventive and holistic treatments. The practice aims to improve mobility and performance in horses, addressing various issues such as stiffness, behavioral changes, and post-injury recovery.

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Reit- und Erlebnishof Liebig

Meppen, Germany

The Reit- und Erlebnishof Liebig is a riding and activity yard on the edge of the woods at Meppen in the Emsland. It teaches children, teenagers and adults to ride, from complete beginners to returning riders, using two indoor schools with forest hacking on the doorstep. The youngest children start with led Ponyexpress sessions and pony familiarisation courses from around three years of age. The yard also offers therapeutic riding — riding education, riding therapy and hippotherapy — in cooperation with a local physiotherapy practice, alongside guided hacks and pony birthday parties.

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Tierarztpraxis Dr. med. vet. Uwe Petermann

Melle, Germany

Dr. Uwe Petermann runs a veterinary practice for laser acupuncture and laser therapy in horses and dogs, based in Melle-Neuenkirchen. Treatment is built around RAC-controlled diagnostics, local laser therapy, auricular medicine, interference-field diagnosis and gold implantation in acupuncture points. The equine side of the practice applies these methods to movement disorders, chronic conditions and behavioural problems. Dr. Petermann is a past president of the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.

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Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Dr. Susanne Ihmels

Melle, Germany

Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Dr. Ihmels is an equine-only veterinary practice in Melle led by Dr. Susanne Ihmels, a certified equine specialist veterinarian and IAVC chiropractor. Its main focus is orthopaedics and sports medicine, supported by chiropractic treatment. The practice also carries out pre-purchase examinations, ophthalmology, dental work and general horse care. The emphasis throughout is on preventive and whole-horse care rather than treating symptoms in isolation.

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Reittherapiezentrum Warmenautal

Melle, Germany

Reittherapiezentrum Warmenautal is Dr Melanie Horstmann's therapeutic riding centre at Spenge in East Westphalia. Its work rests on the observation that the horse can reach people whom other therapies have not, moving them physically, mentally, emotionally and socially at the same time. Sessions aim to build self-confidence, a sense of responsibility and independence for children and adults alike. The centre keeps its own team of therapy horses and involves families and supporters in the life of the yard.

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Niedermühlenhof – Therapeutisches Reiten

Melle, Germany

Niedermühlenhof offers curative-educational work with horses (heilpädagogische Förderung mit dem Pferd) at Melle-Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony. Sessions are built around individual therapeutic goals for children, adolescents, adults and whole families. The yard also runs an eight-week riding course for adults, a regular adult riding group and a Saturday pony club for children. The work is privately funded rather than covered by health insurance, and is supported by donations.

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Sonnenhof Kollmeyer

Melle, Germany

Sonnenhof Kollmeyer is a family-run Icelandic horse stud set on a 280-year-old farm between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehengebirge near Melle. The yard breeds and sells Icelandic horses and offers livery, riding instruction, backing and further training. A dedicated wellness wing provides an aqua treadmill, salt-air inhalation, a vibration treadmill, solarium and BEMER therapy for horses in work or rehabilitation. Guest accommodation and a small shop round out the visit for owners and riders.

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Hof Warner

Melle, Germany

Hof Warner is an equine-assisted therapy yard at Melle-Gesmold in the south of the Osnabrück region, run by Bettina Warner with a team of qualified therapists and educators. The yard offers hippotherapy, occupational therapy with the horse, curative-educational support and horse-assisted trauma pedagogy. Riding and vaulting sessions are run for people with disabilities, alongside nature and experience-based education programmes. The team also works with kindergartens and schools on projects and visits residential care homes with its ponies.

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Pferdetraining Winter

Martfeld, Germany

Pferdetraining Winter is Jenny Winter training and wellness practice for horses in Martfeld, Lower Saxony. Training programmes are built around movement quality, muscle development and mental relaxation, with Dual-Aktivierung as a core method. She also offers rehabilitation training and muscle-building work for horses coming back from a layoff. Bodywork rounds out the service: therapeutic massage, peat-stamp massage and cold and heat therapy with moor. Courses and equine photography are available alongside the training work.

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Ludwig Barhufpflege

Martfeld, Germany

Lena Ludwig provides natural barefoot hoof care from Martfeld in Lower Saxony, trimming to the model nature sets rather than to a fixed shape. The work centres on restoring hoof balance and supporting the hoof's own self-healing processes in barefoot horses. She also advises on and helps develop paddock trails so that horses move enough for their hooves to stay healthy between visits. Equine massage and wellness applications are offered alongside the hoof work.

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Gisela Christof Therapeutisches Reiten

Martfeld, Germany

Piccolino is a therapeutic and pedagogic riding practice run by Gisela Christof in Martfeld, Lower Saxony. The approach is gentle and holistic: children and adults are introduced to horses without performance pressure or sport-style drilling. Sessions of remedial educational riding are offered for children and young people with and without disabilities, alongside adventure-education projects built around themes such as knights or Native American life. Groups are capped at six participants so that every rider gets individual attention, and birthday parties for children can be booked around the ponies.

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Findus Fidibus - Reittherapie und Reitpädagogik

Marschacht, Germany

Findus Fidibus offers equine-assisted therapy and riding pedagogy in the Elbmarsch near Hamburg. Sessions use the horse as a medium to support perception, motor skills, confidence and social-emotional development rather than to teach competitive riding. Other animals kept on the yard work alongside the horses as co-therapists. Services and prices are set out individually for each client. The business operates under the German small-business rule and books appointments directly by e-mail or WhatsApp.

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Lena Drebenstedt Pferdeosteopathie

Mariental, Germany

Lena Drebenstedt runs a mobile equine osteopathy and physiotherapy practice from Mariental, treating horse and rider as a whole in order to restore and maintain musculoskeletal function. Manual osteopathic and physiotherapeutic work is combined with kinesiology taping and acupuncture based on traditional Chinese medicine. She also offers dry needling after Schachinger, Nordian light therapy and BEMER applications. Individual training plans and equipment checks are provided so that owners can carry the work on between visits.

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Lebensblume Pferdetherapie Patricia Groothoff

Lüneburg, Germany

Lebensblume Pferdetherapie is a mobile equine therapy practice run by Patricia Groothoff around Lüneburg, working on a holistic basis that looks for the cause behind a symptom rather than treating the symptom alone. Treatments combine traditional and modern methods, including acupuncture, osteopathy and cranio-sacral work. Dry needling, laser acupuncture, moxibustion and kinesiology taping are also offered. Bach flower remedies are used to support horses with behavioural or emotional issues.

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Heike Schudinat

Lüneburg, Germany

Heike Schudinat runs a mobile animal physiotherapy practice serving Lüneburg and the surrounding area, treating horses as well as dogs and cats at their own yard or home. Equine work aims to keep, restore or improve a horse performance by mobilising joints, stretching and loosening the musculature and rebuilding strength. Typical cases include rideability problems, irregular rhythm, lameness, crookedness through head or tail, girth and saddle sensitivity, and returning to work after a long break through injury. Treatment combines manual techniques such as joint mobilisation, massage and lymphatic drainage with physical modalities including magnetic field therapy and TENS. Acupuncture and leech therapy are also offered.

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Faszination Sattel - Sattelergonomin & Pferdeosteopathin

Lüneburg, Germany

Faszination Sattel is the practice of Kim Raissa Wierwille in Lüneburg, combining saddle ergonomics with equine osteopathy. She analyses saddle fit for horse and rider on anatomical and biomechanical principles, then adjusts, re-flocks or repairs the saddle as required. Saddles are also sold and can be taken out on trial. On the bodywork side she offers osteopathic treatment for horses and laser therapy, including combined saddle-and-osteopathy appointments. Her approach treats correct equipment and a comfortable horse as one question rather than two.

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Tierheilpraxis Jeschke

Lüchow, Germany

Nina Jeschke runs an animal naturopathy practice in the Wendland treating horses, donkeys, dogs, cats, small pets, goats, cattle and sheep. Her methods include acupuncture-oriented energy work, Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine and acupuncture, phytotherapy, leech therapy, manual therapy and physiotherapy, lymphatic drainage, massage and kinesiology taping. She also offers nutritional counselling, preventive examinations, allergy and gut remediation, vaccine detoxification and rehabilitation training. House and yard visits are part of the service, and she runs seminars and workshops alongside the practice.

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Therapie für Pferde Helena Thier

Lähden, Germany

Therapie für Pferde Helena Thier is a mobile equine therapy practice based at Lähden in the Emsland. Helena Thier treats sport and leisure horses with physiotherapy and osteopathy, working at the horse's own yard. Her regular service area covers the districts of Emsland, Steinfurt and Osnabrück, with longer journeys possible by arrangement. The practice is run as a small owner-operated business registered under the German small-business VAT rule.

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Pferdetherapie Janine Kettlitz

Loxstedt, Germany

Janine Kettlitz treats horses across the Bremen, Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven area from her base in Loxstedt-Stotel. Her practice combines equine osteopathy, chiropractic and hoof orthopaedics, so a horse is assessed from head to hoof rather than one region at a time. Tensegral and fascia training, massage techniques and leech therapy round out the treatment options. Online consultations are available for owners outside the travel area.

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Tierheilpraxis Bako

Lingen (Ems), Germany

Tierheilpraxis Bako is a mobile animal naturopathy practice in Lingen (Ems) specialising in holistic therapy for horses and dogs. Stephanie Bako is a trained Tierheilpraktikerin examined by the oldest German association of animal naturopaths, and works purely with natural-medicine methods. All appointments take place on site at the horse's yard or the dog's home. Alongside treatment she advises owners on prevention so that future problems can be avoided.

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