title: [Useful of animals as integrated rehabilitation in patients with psychological and physical discomfort].
abstract: In the context of social farming, understood as traditional agricultural production, there is a peculiarity appointed to generate innovative services of extreme importance from the health and social: the use of assisted therapy with animals for promoting the employment of disadvantaged people (handicapped). The proximity of the animal is to humans, and especially for young people, a great educational event, an important reference point for growth, a strong incentive to open up to the world, to communicate better, to gain a sense of responsibilities and to correct some defaillance behavioral and cognitive. This work attests to the validity of the animals as an aid in the treatment methodological neurorehabilitation of some diseases, emphasizing the importance of combining this new intervention strategy to conventional rehabilitation therapy.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università degli Studi di Messina, Polo Universitario Annunziata, Messina, Italy. apugliese@unime.it
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pugliese
authors.forename: Concettina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fenga
authors.forename: Michela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pugliese
mesh_terms: D056447:Animal Assisted Therapy; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation