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Equine therapy

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Equine therapy

Tiertherapie Nadja Rügner

Friedeburg, Germany

Tiertherapie Nadja Rügner is an animal physiotherapy and osteopathy practice for horses and dogs, based in Friedeburg in East Frisia and also serving the Rhein-Main region. Treatments combine manual physiotherapy and animal osteopathy with shockwave therapy, low-level laser, dry needling, kinesiology taping and leech therapy. An underwater treadmill is available for controlled rehabilitation and conditioning work. Sessions aim to restore mobility, ease pain and support recovery after injury or surgery.

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ANICARE - Mobile Tierheilpraxis (VDT) für Hunde, Pferde, Katze - Roswitha Feldmann-Rahn

Firrel, Germany

ANICARE Tiergesundheit is an animal naturopathy practice at Hesel in East Frisia, treating horses as well as dogs and cats. Its focus is nutrition and dietetics, gastrointestinal complaints, restoring the gut microbiome, and behavioural counselling and therapy, supported by aromatherapy and other natural methods. Consultations run mainly by video call and telephone with analysis of footage, photographs and veterinary reports, and in-person assessment and manual treatment are arranged where they are needed. Supplementary feeding plans are put together individually for each animal.

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Reittherapie Mähnenspiel

Gasteweg, 26849 Filsum, Germany

Reittherapie Mähnenspiel offers therapeutic riding and educational work with horses for children, adults and care institutions. It also gives lunge lessons, riding lessons for beginners and returners, and introductory vaulting. The team is led by Imke Pollmann.

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Pferdeosteopathie Nike Gerken

Faßberg, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie Nike Gerken is a mobile equine osteopathy and physiotherapy practice based at Müden (Örtze) in the Lüneburg Heath. Treatment uses manual techniques to release blockages and tension so the horse's body can recover its own balance. Massage and mobilisation work are combined with stabilising exercises to hold the result. Each horse leaves with a tailored exercise plan for the owner to continue between visits.

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Tierarztpraxis für Pferde Eyendorf

Eyendorf, Germany

Tierarztpraxis für Pferde Eyendorf is an equine-only ambulatory practice serving the Lüneburg Heath and the Harburg district from Eyendorf. Its orthopaedic service covers lameness work-ups, diagnostic anaesthesia, wireless digital radiography and ultrasound, with laser, shockwave, regenerative and hoof-orthopaedic treatment options. Further departments handle dentistry including EOTRH, internal medicine, ophthalmology, surgery, emergency medicine for colic, choke and laminitis, and gynaecology with cycle management, artificial insemination, hysteroscopy, foaling assistance and foal medicine. Complementary work includes chiropractic, dry needling, acupuncture, lymphatic drainage, leech therapy and feeding advice, and pre-purchase examinations are carried out to German and international standards. The office is staffed Monday to Friday with round-the-clock emergency cover at weekends and on public holidays.

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Keie Veterinärchiropraktik

Evessen, Germany

Keie Veterinärchiropraktik is the practice of Jacqueline Keie, a licensed veterinary surgeon specialising in animal chiropractic. Horses are seen on an ambulatory basis at their own yard, while dogs and cats are treated at her practice room in Evessen. Her work centres on finding restricted or altered joint movement — vertebral subluxations — and restoring normal motion with specific adjustments. She holds IAVC and Veterinary Chiropractic Society certification and bills as a veterinarian under the German GOT scale, so treatment is generally covered by animal health insurance.

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Tierärztliche Praxis für Osteopathie Henrike Biesemeier

Germany

Henrike Biesemeier is a veterinarian running a mobile osteopathy practice based in Pollhagen, covering the Nienburg, Diepholz, Schaumburg and Hannover districts. She treats horses as well as dogs, cats and other small and hoofed animals, using manual diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to release movement restrictions and support the body's own healing. Her methods include fascial, craniosacral, visceral and structural osteopathy. Dry needling for myofascial trigger points and leech therapy for inflammation and wound healing round out the service, all offered alongside conventional veterinary medicine.

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Equi Moveo Pferdeosteopathie Lisa Mohme

Germany

Equi Moveo is an equine osteopathy and physiotherapy practice run by Lisa Mohme from Burgwedel, north-east of Hannover. Treatment is mobile and combines osteopathic and chiropractic technique with manual and fascial therapy, stress-point massage, dry needling and kinesiology taping. Movement and gait analysis guides each plan, and AmpliMove electrotherapy is available where indicated. She also advises on saddle fit, training planning and rehabilitation after injury.

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Lena Bausch, Reittherapie Essel

Essel, Germany

Reittherapie Lena Bausch offers equine-assisted therapy in Essel, north of Hanover, delivered by a qualified holistic riding therapist and remedial educator. Sessions are ridden on the yard's ponies and are adapted to clients with a wide range of needs, drawing on long experience of working with people with disabilities. The ponies are kept in paddock boxes with hay racks and water troughs, and an indoor school makes sessions possible in any weather. A riding arena a short walk away and a children's common room complete the setup.

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PSG Rittergut Habighorst

Eschede, Germany

Pferdesportgemeinschaft Rittergut Habighorst e.V. is an equestrian club at the Rittergut estate in Habighorst near Eschede, founded in 2001 and now around 150 members strong. It runs three sections: ridden instruction, vaulting (Volti) and therapeutic riding. The therapy work is deliberately inclusive, bringing people with and without disabilities together around the club horses. Members compete regionally and the club publishes its own fixtures and results.

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Huf-Reha-Team Munter Duer

Engelschoff, Germany

Huf-Reha-Team is the hoof rehabilitation practice of Esther Munter and Elmar Duer in Engelschoff, Lower Saxony, each with around thirty years of experience working on hooves. They fit and teach GluShu glue-on shoes and take on rehabilitation cases where a hoof needs rebuilding rather than routine trimming. The team runs hands-on hoof workshops and continuing-education courses for farriers and vets. They also supply hoof products, including a laminitis first-aid kit. Appointments are arranged individually.

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Equuria GbR | Pferdepraxis

Emstek, Germany

Equuria is an equine veterinary practice in Emstek, Lower Saxony, treating horses both at its own clinic and on the road at client yards. The team covers orthopaedics, surgery and internal medicine, with a particular focus on lameness diagnostics and regenerative therapies such as PRP, BMAC and shockwave. Endoscopic work including gastroscopy and bronchoscopy is offered alongside chiropractic, osteopathy, lymph drainage and dry needling. Surgical services range from arthroscopy and suspensory ligament surgery to laser procedures and cartilage-bone transplants. An emergency service runs 365 days a year.

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Tierärztin Julia Pöselt

Emmerthal, Germany

Julia Pöselt is a veterinarian and animal naturopath practising from the family farm Hof Pöselt at Emmerthal in Lower Saxony, having studied at the Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover. Her treatments include acupuncture, osteopathy, physiotherapeutic techniques, homoeopathy, therapeutic ultrasound and an underwater treadmill. Appointments are arranged by telephone. The farm around the practice also runs vaulting lessons, guided trail rides, overnight accommodation for travelling riders and a couple of livery boxes.

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Tierarzt Oppel

Emlichheim, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Oppel in Emlichheim has been practising since 1977 and focuses on large animals while also running a full small-animal surgery. Horses are covered through equine osteopathy alongside the practice's general large-animal work, which includes herd health monitoring, vaccination, diagnostics, obstetrics and surgery. The small-animal side offers preventive care, dentistry, orthopaedics, breeding examinations and imaging including digital radiography, ultrasound and endoscopy. The practice keeps extended weekday hours and is also open on Saturdays.

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Pferdevitaltraining

Elze, Germany

Pferdevitaltraining is the practice of Silke Eckert, a qualified holistic equine therapist based in Elze-Sorsum in Lower Saxony. She treats horses and ponies with physiotherapy, dry needling and leech therapy, combining hands-on treatment with correct gymnastic work. Her services also cover groundwork, riding lessons and rider seat training so owners can hold the results between visits. She works alongside the horse's vet, farrier, saddler and equine dentist and takes on difficult or long-standing cases.

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Hof Garlebsen

Einbeck, Germany

Hof Garlebsen near Einbeck is a livery and training yard run by Josephine Neumann and Marco Stappenbeck. Horses live in generous boxes with paddocks, large pastures and reinforced winter paddocks with hay feeding, and boarding packages are put together service by service. Dressage lessons are given one-to-one at every level from beginner to competition, and horses are taken in for schooling and correction as full or part training. The yard also reconditions horses after injury, with Equitron treatment, feed management and coordination with the vet.

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Birkenhof Einbeck GbR

Einbeck, Germany

Birkenhof Einbeck is a centre for horses and their people in Einbeck, southern Lower Saxony, combining animal therapy with a livery yard. Horses and dogs are treated with physiotherapy, osteopathy, Dorn-Breuss and craniosacral techniques, phytotherapy and bloodletting. The yard offers both boxes and open stabling, and runs courses and training days on the premises. The farm also breeds Shire horses, the largest horse breed in the world, and builds events around them.

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Dr Habermann

Ehra-Lessien, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Dr. Habermann is a veterinary practice at Ehra-Lessien treating small animals and horses. Dr. Birgita Habermann offers osteopathy and dental correction for horses alongside general veterinary care. For dogs and cats the practice provides physiotherapy, acupuncture, laser therapy and X-ray diagnostics. Monthly animal-care tips and practice information are published on the practice website.

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Pferdezahnzentrum Döhle

Egestorf, Germany

Pferdezahnzentrum Döhle is an equine dental practice run by Dr Katharina Ros at Egestorf-Döhle in Lower Saxony. It covers diagnostics and treatment of the horse's mouth, from routine dentistry through to orthodontic work. Treatment is set in a wider context: the practice also works on the cervical spine and ECVM, orthopaedics and physiotherapy, and draws on naturopathic methods. Its premise is that the mouth reflects the horse's overall condition, so cases are coordinated with the owner's vet and therapists.

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Manja Kärsch-Kleine

Egestorf, Germany

Manja Kärsch-Kleine runs a mobile equine physiotherapy practice out of Egestorf, covering roughly a fifty-kilometre radius across the Lüneburg Heath and towards Hamburg. Treatment is put together individually from a range of techniques including massage, fascia work, dry needling, acupuncture, vibration therapy, osteopathy and bloodletting. Alongside the bodywork she schools horses and takes horses in for backing and training. She also teaches riders of all ages and abilities and does groundwork and trust-building exercises with horse and owner together.

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Katharina Brauer Die Tierosteopathin, Visionäre Pferdeosteopathie

Egestorf, Germany

Katharina Brauer is an animal osteopath working with horses across the Lüneburg Heath. Her treatments combine osteopathic technique with work on the horse's nervous system and on the relationship between horse and owner, aimed at cases such as lameness, back pain, colic, metabolic complaints and changes in behaviour. Each treatment is followed by a coaching call about three weeks later to review progress, and she offers a short introductory call at no charge.

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Laila van Dijk Sportmassage

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Laila van Dijk Sportmassage is a sports massage practice in Garrelsweer in the Dutch province of Groningen, working on both riders and horses. The equine side treats muscle problems and restricted movement, with the aim of restoring and optimising freedom of movement. Sessions are tailored to the individual horse or rider rather than following a fixed protocol. The practice has been running for more than fifteen years in the north of the Netherlands and keeps its methods current through continuing education. Appointments are made by arrangement.

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Dr.med.vet. Dorothee Müller

Edemissen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Eddesse is a mixed practice for large and small animals at Edemissen in Lower Saxony, led by Dr. med. vet. Dorothee Müller. On the equine side it provides ambulatory examination and treatment of horses, vaccinations, pregnancy checks, blood sampling, equine passports and microchipping. The practice also runs a broad complementary-medicine programme for horses: chiropractic, acupuncture and acupressure after Penzel, laser and magnetic-field therapy, COB inhalation therapy, leech therapy and bioresonance, supported by an in-house laboratory and X-ray and ultrasound imaging. A certified animal physiotherapist joined the team in 2026 for rehabilitation, pain management and mobility work. Cattle, sheep, goats and farmed deer are looked after alongside the small-animal clinic.

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Pferdeosteopathie und Akupunktur für Pferde Miriam Leinweber

Ebergötzen, Germany

Akupunktur für Pferde Miriam Leinweber is a mobile equine practice working across the Göttingen region of southern Lower Saxony. Miriam Leinweber combines acupuncture with osteopathy and craniosacral therapy in a single holistic treatment approach. Sessions begin with a full assessment of the horse and are aimed at improving mobility, balance and general wellbeing. Her handling is deliberately gentle and adapted to each horse.

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