Windridge Therapeutic Equestrian Center Of East Texas, Inc.

Windridge’s Programs

Therapeutic Riding Program provides an innovative form of therapy while teaching equestrian skills. The development of equestrian skills improves a client’s mobility, thought processes and communication. Lesson objectives also include life and job skills. The development of skills improves self-esteem and fosters self-sufficiency.

Therapeutic Driving Program is for clients to learn how to drive a horse drawn vehicle; clients with degenerative disabilities, amputation, spinal cord or severe head injuries. Clients receive many benefits; joint compression, coordination, socialization and the development of life-skills.

Hippotherapy Program – Hippo is Greek for horse – hippotherapy is “therapy with the help of the horse” and a licensed physical, occupational, or speech therapist is involved in the direct treatment of the client.

Equine Services for Heroes Program serves our veterans. Veterans who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm have participated in Windridge’s programs. Windridge seeks to be a part of the therapy and life-skill development needed by veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Research Program – Windridge has set out to develop a state-of-the-art research facility. As of the end of December 2012, Windridge successfully collected pilot data that demonstrates the potential, accuracy, and sophistication of the center’s laboratory. In the summer of 2014 Windridge collected data on able-bodied adults and has established a base line of therapeutic benefits for adults when the horse is used as a therapy strategy.

Educational Program – Windridge has stepped forward to provide education to individuals seeking to receive their therapeutic riding instructor certification and/or increase their knowledge of therapeutic riding. Windridge has taken the step to co-author a textbook for the equine-assisted activities and therapies (EAAT) industry.