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Horse Power for Ability is the trade name of Horses for Health CLG. We are a not-for-profit organisation. Chair: Dr Dorothee Debuse

WELCOME

“Life equals movement

and movement equals life.”

We provide a specialist physiotherapy service in Northumberland

which uses the movement of horses to help people with movement disorders

enhance their movement experience and movement ability.

Hippotherapy (from Greek hippos = horse) is a specialist

physiotherapy intervention that makes use of the

movement impulses of a walking horse to correct and

improve movement in the person on horseback. Research

has shown that hippotherapy is particularly beneficial for

people with neurological disorders that affects their ability

to move.

We provide a hippotherapy service to children and adults

with a range of movement disorders. Our chair and lead

physiotherapist has extensive research expertise, as well

as personal experience of cerebral palsy and hippotherapy.

This makes Horse Power for Ability unique in the UK,

probably world-wide.

NEWS

We have moved! Fortnightly game bird shooting at our previous base and visiting riding

instructors meant that our access to the arena became increasingly restricted. In addition

to that, Rowan is laminitic again, and we decided to move him to a rehabilitation yard which

specialises in looking after horses with laminitis.

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