Today.com article entitled “‘An inspiration’: Dogs with special needs help kids heal in physical therapy<\/a>.”<\/p>\nHave you worked with any therapy animals in your practice? \u00a0Find it beneficial across the age spectrum? \u00a0I know I’d rather have a dog by my side while recovering from (likely) future running injuries!<\/p>\n
Have a great Friday and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
\n-Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today.com posted a really neat article a couple of days ago about the use of dogs in physical therapy. \u00a0Animal therapy isn’t super new in the field, but there’s a twist! \u00a0All of the dogs have special needs (deaf, blind, three legged) — sounds like some therapy on both sides! Akron Children’s Hospital Doggie Brigade\u00a0uses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5228,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Akron Children’s Hospital Doggie Brigade<\/a>\u00a0uses over 70 dogs to provide this regular service to kids in their physical therapy programs and has been doing so since 1992! \u00a0Current featured dog is Chloe a Boxer (1 of 2 in the program) and has been providing\u00a0her services since 2014. \u00a0Check out more Doggie Brigade pups<\/a>!<\/p>\n