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30th September 2017

The Difference Our PTSD Assistance Dogs Make

As a charity we ask for regular feedback from our veterans on how they are finding life and the programme – and how training or having a PTSD Assistance Dog is making all the...

- Increase in patience, impulse control, emotional regulation
- Improved ability to display affect, decrease in emotional numbness
- Improved sleep
- Decreased depression, increase in positive sense of purpose
- Decrease in startle responses
- Reduce anxiety & lower blood pressure
- Decrease in pain medications
- Increased sense of belonging/acceptance
- Lowered stress levels, increased sense of calm

From Service Dog Training Program for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress in Service Members - Yount, Olmert, Lee published: US Army Medical Department Journal 2012

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The Difference Our PTSD Assistance Dogs Make

The difference dogs make

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