"ProHealth Care's Regional Heart & Vascular Center at Waukesha Memorial, WI, has partnered with Humane Animal Welfare Society to bring pet therapy benefits to cardiac rehab patients through an innovative new walking program -- one of the first of its kind in the country. Phase 4 cardiac rehab patients are invited to pair up with specially trained pet therapy dogs and walk their "friends" along designated walking paths. Walking times occur 7 days a week from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 - 6 p.m. Did you know that spending time with animals can be medically beneficial? Medical studies and field reports say that patients experience many therapeutic benefits thanks to pet therapy, including:* decreased anxiety and depression
* increased self-esteem
* lowered blood pressure
* increased motivation to get well
* decreased need for painkillers in some post-operative patients"
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