Camel Therapy: Animals Brighten Day For Rehab Patients (SEE)

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Rehabilitation patients at John Muir Health's Walnut Creek medical center enjoyed the company of some exotic therapy animals from Lyon Ranch Therapy Animals of Sonoma earlier this fall.

The Rehabilitation Unit at John Muir Health has used animal-assisted therapy to benefit patients for more than 20 years. Patients recovering from a range of injuries and illnesses from strokes to cancer to brain injuries to neuromuscular disorders look forward to the pet therapy visits.

The most photogenic: Humphrey the camel.

Humphrey certainly provides a welcome distraction for patients.

So do the serval, fennec fox, miniature horse and parrots.

The animals visited on Sept. 21.

-Photos provided by John Muir Health