Stirrups and Smiles

01/10/2026

So thankful for the warmer weather this past week and the chance to ride again after the Christmas break! Even Sonny (the barn cat) wanted in on the action!☀️🐴❤️

11/18/2025

What if therapy didn’t feel like therapy at all?

At our clinic, hippotherapy uses the natural movement of a horse to support occupational, physical, and speech therapy in powerful, evidence-based ways.

Here’s how it helps ⬇️
🐴 Occupational Therapy: Improves sensory processing, fine-motor skills, attention, and regulation through rhythmic movement and purposeful tasks.
🐴 Physical Therapy: Builds core strength, balance, coordination, and postural control as the rider responds to the horse’s gait.
🐴 Speech Therapy: Supports communication, breath control, engagement, and language development through structured interaction and movement.

The best part? Kids don’t just work hard, they light up.
The horse becomes a partner in their progress, making goals feel fun, empowering, and full of possibility.

If you’re curious about how hippotherapy could benefit your child, we’d love to share more.

10/30/2025

Calling all local businesses, anglers, and community partners!

Our First Annual Bass Fishing Tournament is coming up, and we need your help to keep our therapy barn running strong for the children who rely on it each week.

Sponsorships directly support barn maintenance, feed, and care for our amazing horses — essential partners in occupational, physical, and speech therapy.

Contact Brooke Rutherford at 501-288-8312 or email pediatrictherapy501@gmail.com to learn more about sponsorship levels.

10/22/2025

We call this “The Chill Rider”!! Who needs a couch when you’ve got a horse??😄🐴

09/03/2025

Fall Hippotherapy sessions are in full swing. It was a great day at the barn!

06/02/2025

Hi, I was apart of this group about 8 years ago and I’d like to be removed as a administrator. Can someone help me out?

05/18/2025

We finished our spring semester sessions enjoying the warm weather and pulling out the water guns!! We will have a short break then start summer sessions!☀️😎🐴

04/17/2025

04/17/2025

TJ is doing great work in Hippotherapy!

04/17/2025

Losh is working rotational movement - look at that throw!!

04/17/2025

Walker connecting gears while riding!