Horse Power for Ability is the trade name of Horses for Health CLG. We are a not-for-profit organisation. Chair: Dr Dorothee Debuse
Registered office: Heather Lodge, Edlingham, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2BL, UK. Tel: 01665-574727, © 2011
ABOUT US
Horse Power for Ability is a specialist physiotherapy
service based near Alnwick in Northumberland. We
provide hippotherapy to people of all ages and with
a range of impairments across Northumberland,
Tyne and Wear, and beyond. With less than 20
physio-therapists qualified to practise hippotherapy
in the UK and currently practising, our nearest
colleagues are in Fife, Lincolnshire, in North Wales
and on the Isle of Man.
Our practice follows the German hippo-
therapy model; Germany is the world
leader in hippotherapy practice
and education.
Our chair and lead physiotherapist
does not only have a doctorate in
hippotherapy, and is therefore an expert
in the theory of hippotherapy, she also has
cerebral palsy and is therefore acutely aware
of the effects of a disability on an individual,
and of the benefits a good horse’s movement
gives to people with neuro-motor disabilities.
This combination of professional expertise and
personal experience in hippotherapy is unique
world-wide.
We are delighted to acknowledge a grant towards
key items, such as our wheelchair accessible
mounting platform and our assessment couch,
which we received through the LEADER programme
from the European Regional Development Fund and
One North East.
To read One North East’s press release about us,
please click here.
We are an independent and charitable
not-for-profit organisation
and cater for children and adults.
