{"id":265,"date":"2014-10-31T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestvetcare.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:24:38","slug":"pet-therapy-an-interesting-technique-emerging-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/pet-therapy-an-interesting-technique-emerging-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Therapy \u2013 An Interesting Technique Emerging In Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestvetcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/bestvetcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy.jpg\" alt=\"Pet-Therapy\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy.jpg 800w, http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy-660x462.jpg 660w, http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PetTherapy-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, in health care industry a new trend has been seen \u2013 curing patients with the help of pet therapy. Many doctors and surgeons are advising patients this treatment seeing the countless advantages it provides. Not only confined to physical health, pet therapy helps in maintaining and enhancing overall health.<\/p>\n<p>Many researchers have found that pet therapy has multiple benefits. Surgeons and physicians notice that patients recover faster due to this technique. Let\u2019s dwell in deep and find out what is pet therapy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Pet Therapy<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s a wide spectrum field that includes animal-assisted therapy as well as animal-assisted activities. Animal-assisted therapy is a growing field that uses dogs and other animals to help people cope up with health issues like heart problems and cancer or recover faster after a surgery, accident or mental health problems like anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, animal-assisted activities have a general purpose such as providing comfort and enjoyment for nursing home residents.<\/p>\n<h3>Advantages of Pet Therapy<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Physical Health<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It lowers blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>Improves cardiovascular health<\/li>\n<li>Releases endorphins (oxytocin) that have a calming effect<\/li>\n<li>Lowers overall physical pain<\/li>\n<li>Having and caring for a pet produces an automatic relaxation response, reducing the dosage of medication that some folks need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0Mental Health<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It lifts up spirits and lessens depression<\/li>\n<li>Decreases feelings of isolation and alienation<\/li>\n<li>Encourages communication<\/li>\n<li>Pet therapy provides comfort<\/li>\n<li>It reduces boredom<\/li>\n<li>Creates motivation and helps in faster recovery post surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Reading<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It helps in improving literacy skills in children<\/li>\n<li>It aids children to focus better<\/li>\n<li>Reading provides non-judgemental and non-stressful environment<\/li>\n<li>It increases self-confidence, and reduces self-consciousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>In Physical Therapy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It helps in maintaining or increasing motor skills<\/li>\n<li>It increases joint movement and improves recovery time<\/li>\n<li>This provides motivation to move more, stretch farther and exercise longer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pet therapy provides numerous advantages. It helps people in numerous ways in dealing with multiple health issues. This emerging technique is spreading widely into the health care arena helping people live a joyful life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, in health care industry a new trend has been seen \u2013 curing patients with the help of pet therapy. Many doctors and surgeons are advising patients this treatment seeing the countless advantages it provides. Not only confined to physical health, pet therapy helps in maintaining and enhancing overall health. Many researchers have found that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bestvetcare.improvepetcare.com\/pet-therapy-an-interesting-technique-emerging-in-health-care\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,112,113],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pet Therapy \u2013 An Interesting Technique Emerging In Health Care - BestVetCare Blog \u2013 Everything You Need to Know About Pet Care<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pet therapy is becoming quite popular these days. 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