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How Can Service Dogs Help Individuals with TBI and PTSD?

Kristen Maisano, OTD
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Posted on BrainLine May 15, 2013. Reviewed February 1, 2022.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Erica Queen, BrainLine.

About the author: Kristen Maisano, OTD

Kristen Maisano, OTD is an occupational therapist and the interim director of Rehabilitation Services for the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia. She specializes in evaluating and treating military patients with traumatic brain injuries.

Kristen Maisano