CHCS - Perspectives Winter/Spring 2016

44 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Alumna Takes the Lead on Animal-Assisted Therapy BY MARY T. BLACKINTON, ED.D., PT, GCS, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, HYBRID D.P.T. PROGRAM Physical Therapy TAMPA I magine showing up for your physical therapy session and being introduced to a new member of the health care team who just happened to be a dog. Hybrid entry-level D.P.T. class of 2015 alumna Kantica Arora, D.P.T., presented a poster at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, in February 2015 describing how therapists can use dogs to facilitate movement in physical therapy.