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The Health Benefits of Pet Therapy
Therapy dogs love doing their job, they love people. As a result, pet therapy is growing in popularity due to all the benefits associated with it. Find out how pet therapy can help manage anxiety and pain levels in this article.
What is pet therapy?
The term pet therapy is quite broad. It includes animal-assisted therapy and other animal-assisted activities. Here’s the thing about animal-assisted therapy — it is an evolving field that uses animals like dogs to facilitate recovery from various health problems like cancer, heart disease, and mental health disorders.
A patient can interact with a trained animal during a pet therapy session. Of course, this interaction will be done under the guidance of the pet’s handler. Pet therapy helps the patient cope with or recover from a mental disorder or health problem.
Dogs and cats are most used in pet therapy. Usually, I bring my two dogs (husky and corgi) into the office to improve the patients’ experience.
