The beneficial therapy with DOLPHINS

For some years, adjuvant therapies with animals have been developed all over the world.They have been seen to be very beneficial for patients who otherwise it is difficult for them to improve.Therapies are carried out with dogs, cats and other companion animals that help treat depressions, anxiety, traumas etc...In recent times they have been added to this group horses and dolphins .The centers that use dolphins for therapies are scarce.However they seem to have shown that these animals are very useful , as an aid, in certain pathologies .

Dolphin therapy

The dolphin therapy began with observation by a group of doctors and scientists , of the improvement they had a group of children with autism, cerebral palsy or other types of neurological disorders that had I usually contact these cetaceans.His hypothesis is that the ultrasounds emitted by the dolphins act as triggering endorphins from the central nervous system.Endorphins contribute to relaxation and pain relief in patients.They also increase the neural connection and functioning of the two cerebral hemispheres.

Another line of work of the neuroscientists study the effect of these ultrasounds on human DNA .They have come to affirm that the sounds and magnetic fields generated by dolphins somehow modify the DNA of people in contact with them.

The beneficial therapy with DOLPHINS

The supporters of the delfinoterapia affirm that in children with Down syndrome it makes improve their learning process and in children with autism it improves their attention .In people with stress or depression It also seems to have been helpful, as in other pathologies.

In this therapy work together therapist, dolphin and patient .The sessions are usually every 15 days and last half an hour In them the patient plays, caresses and performs a series of exercises in contact with the dolphin in the water .Although there are many defenders, the detractors They are also numerous.The latter state that is a business and that they do not really benefit more than other therapies.

The ethical dilemma

The dilemma arises from thinking whether it is ethical to keep dolphins in captivity to perform this type of therapy or not.These treatment s must be carried out in dolphinariums and these are for the intelligent animals authentic prisons. The dolphin defenders want to end these enclosures For them they are prisons that stress, depress, get sick and sometimes induce suicide to these incredible cetaceans.

The beneficial therapy with DOLPHINS

As an alternative they propose to go to the « cyberdelfin ».It is much more economical and it seems that it is also effective .It's the so-called "virtual dolphin therapy" .It consists of being placed on a water mattress with virtual reality glasses in which the patient sees dolphins swimming.At the same time hears the sounds produced by the dolphins of a recording.The sensation is like floating in the sea surrounded by them.

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