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All Star Equestrian opened its doors in 1999 and provides therapeutic horse riding to people of all ages. Therapeutic horseback riding includes a variety of equine-assisted activities that are beneficial to individuals with physical, mental, emotional and learning difficulties. Other therapies include hippotherapy and a veteran's programdesigned for veterans reintegrating back into their family and communities. Our riders have many types of disabilities – Cerebral Palsy, Multiple sclerosis, Autism, Spina Bifida, Traumatic Brain Injury, Metabolic disorder, Intellectual Disability, and many more.
Therapeutic riding addresses these disabilities by helping improve balance, increase upper torso strength, even out walking gait using the three-dimensional movement of the horse to develop new muscle tone, improve fine and gross motor skills, increase self-confidence and allow some riders to move around freely for the first time in their lives. Each rider’s disability is addressed differently according to their restrictions, age, and ability. We begin taking riders at age two, and we have riders up to age sixty-five at this time.