MIZUNAMI — Animal therapy, the use of animals in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients, is popular in Japan though limited to facilities for the aged and handicapped.
Ookute Hospital, specializing in mental and nervous diseases in the city of Mizunami, has introduced animal therapy as part of a prefectural government project promoting such therapy.
Takayuki Kumasaka, an assistant with the nursing faculty of Shizuoka Prefectural University, is acting as a coordinator in the project and has begun verifying the therapy's effects.
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