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Therapy dogs make school easier for disabled Arizona kids - from azcentral
Therapy dogs make school easier for disabled Arizona kids
Dogs that have been trained to help disabled students are showing up in Valley classrooms.
Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1ohKetX
onsdag 10 september 2014
Follow health guidelines for therapy dogs in hospitals
Underdog – the super-beagle who saves his town from bad guys with barely a growl – may be a protracted joke (he first appeared in the 1960s and made a movie as recently as 2007), but a real-life dog actually can rescue you from painful situations, even immediately after joint-replacement surgery.
New info reveals that a daily five- to 15-minute visit from a pooch trained in animal-assisted therapy slashes folks’ need for oral pain meds (oxycodone, etc.) by 28 percent, and that might mean less trouble with side effects like constipation and less dependence on these sometimes-addicting drugs.
But is it sanitary to have a dog in your room when you’re recovering from major surgery? The organizations that work with hospitals to bring in healing hounds should follow strict guidelines to make sure dogs are free of communicable diseases (psittacosis, salmonellosis, toxoplasmosis, campylobacteriosis and giardiasis) and that both pooches and their handlers know how to behave in often-tense recovery situations.
So before you let a therapy dog into your hospital room, check with the person who runs the program to make sure the facility is following all the guidelines for therapy dogs, including that they are not from a shelter or rescue; have been in a home for at least six months; and are frequently screened for health issues. Also, make sure there’s a supervising vet working with the program and that your doctor signs off on having a dog visit with you. Then maybe you’ll pet a pup instead of popping a pill.
Källa: http://www.kansas.com/living/health-fitness/article1992712.html
Therapy dogs make school easier for disabled Arizona kids
Therapy dogs make school easier for disabled Arizona kids
Dogs that have been trained to help disabled students are showing up in Valley classrooms.
Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1ohKetX
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Prison dogs are tension-relievers for Colorado's mentally ill inmates
The mentally ill inmate has long been a recluse in his cell, refusing to utter a word to anyone or go anywhere near a therapy session. But lately, the man has been coming out of his cell — and his shell — with little or no prodding. It's whenever he sees Lazy Daisy sauntering through the prison pod, wagging her tail. The black Labrador mix, once on "doggie death row," has a calming, even therapeutic effect on the inmate and many others.
Lazy Daisy is the star of a new animal-therapy program started for severely mentally ill inmates at Centennial Correctional Facility in Cañon City. She has the ability but not the inclination to bark. She freely gives and receives love without fear among some of the most dangerous offenders in Colorado's prison system.
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