Recovering with 4-legged friends requires less pain medication

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Adults who use pet therapy while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery require 50 percent less pain medication than those who do not. These findings were presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Anthrozoology and the First Human Animal Interaction Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, Mo...

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