Can people with physical disabilities or limitations still ride at the stables?
We have a certified instructor, who administers equine assisted psychotherapy and has seen a close relationship between natural horsemanship and psychosomatic medicine. Horse riding is therapeutic; it’s helped people feel as if they’ve overcome what they felt were physical constraints. People, who have ridden with us either for trail rides or riding lessons, have either always wanted to ride or else loved to ride. We have a female student, who wanted to prove to herself she could still become a better rider not long after she had invasive surgery to repair her right shoulder rotator cuff and move painful bone spurs. She compensated well with her legs and left arm to mount the horse and steer it, and now rides with equal strength and movement of both arms. Another young lady with Spinal Bifida and braces on both legs, finished a trail ride her grandmother said she will talk about for a very long time. For the same amount of time and cost as a trail ride, we’ll let people ride in our pas
