Athletic Trainer Uses Dogs to Support Athletes

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An athletic trainer at Trevecca Nazarene University is using a unique prescription to ease athlete anxiety when they enter the training room for treatment: dogs.

“There’s the anxiety of, ‘Well if I go in [the training room] they’re going to take me out, and I want to compete,’”Austin Krause, head trainer at Travecca Nazarene, told Trevoches Online. “And so the idea is that there’s this dog that doesn’t judge you, just wants to love, just wants to have fun, so you can come in here and that kind of takes some of that anxiety out.”

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