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Service Dog Treatment Report
See also: Psychiatric Service Dog
What is Service Dog?
A service dog is a type of assistance dog, specifically trained to help people who have disabilities other than visual or hearing impairment, or medical response dogs. Service dogs are sometimes trained and bred by private organizations. In other cases, a disabled handler may train their own dog with or without the aid of a private dog trainer.
Reasons used & Efficacy
| Reasons used |
# of patients
Efficacy
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Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance problems | 5 |
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2 | ||||
| Cognitive Confusion | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Emotional Support | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Don't know | 1 | 0 | |||||
| neuropathy, both arms | 1 | 0 |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Aturo
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
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- Aturo
- daily
- since Mar 09, 2010
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Efficacy
Major
for Balance problems
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips The overall reaction of people and business people is wonderful. Having a service dog takes the focus off of you and your mobility issues and put´s the at... See full evaluation
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Report created on March 19, 2010.