It is the sincere pleasure of Rides & Reins Therapeutic Riding Center to provide a healthy, natural emotional and physical therapy location to provide riders with mental, emotional and physical disabilities to experience the relaxation of horseback riding. The walking gait of the horse simulates the movement of a healthy person’s pelvis when walking on two legs. During a therapeutic riding session, this action relaxes and stimulates unused muscles while building muscle tone, improving balance, coordination and joint mobility.
Our volunteers and instructors use the horse’s movement to stimulate specific neuromuscular reactions. For riders with mental or emotional disorders, horseback riding lessons help improve concentration, increase confidence, patience and self esteem. A sense of achievement is also an important emotional milestone for our riders, and enhances the motivation toward recovery and further therapy.
Bonds are always established between horse and rider, which can lead to continued self confidence, patients and comfort. We are proud to offer such a distinct and natural method of therapy for children of all ages. The experience of working with an equine is one that can’t be matched, and we are thankful and proud of the riders who have benefited from our program and facility.
Conditions That Benefit from Rides & Reins:
- Amputations
- Brain injuries
- CVA / stroke
- Emotional disabilities
- Learning disabilities
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Spina Bifida
- Visually impaired
- Autism
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down’s Syndrome
- Hearing impaired
- Mental retardation
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Spinal cord injuries
Rides & Reins believes that riding horses is a powerful development towards the healing of individuals with physical, emotional and developmental challenges.
Contact Rides & Reins Therapeutic Riding Center today at 262-644-8324, or browse our website for more information about how you can help or learn more about our history.
