Maintained Pressure is a technique that calms babies, people and animals:
Pressure Bands are used in human neuro-rehabilitation to apply sustained pressure that calms and relaxes muscles and therefore the person.
Swaddling Babies – medical research studies have found that swaddling newborns reduces arousal.
Weighted Vests are used to help calm Autistic children or those with dysfunctional sensory integration.
Temple Grandin’s “Squeeze Machine” or “Hug Box” was developed to help calm an autistic person’s over-stimulated sensory system.
Deep Pressure Touch Stimulation (DPTS), is a sensory therapy used in humans and animals that involves applying a tactile stimulus such as weight, squeezing/brushing, elastic garments, or inflatable devices to provide the feeling of a firm hug, holding, swaddling, or massage.
Tellington Touch Therapy uses a combination of specific touches, lifts, and movement exercises to release tension and increase body awareness.
Wheat Pressure Boxes are used to calm high-strung, fearful horses.
The Anxiety Wrap’s patented design applies Maintained Pressure by conforming to the torso of the dog with resiliently expandable and flexible material. The spring of the fabric allows it to apply a low level of pressure to many portions of the body of the wearer.
Acupressure was developed in the 3rd and 4th centuries, B.C., and uses physical pressure on receptors or acupressure points to alter or modify the behavior in animals. In recent years, acupressure has been used with many different kinds of animals: dogs, cats, horses, orangutans, hamsters, snow leopards, elephants, alligators, cockatoos, llamas, cheetahs, etc.
It aids recovery from injury, reduces stress, calms reactions to loud noises, tones down aggressive or fearful behavior, reduces shock, helps overcome whelping difficulty, reduces fear biting, reduces stiffness and accomplishes relaxation for animals training for animal companion therapy in rest homes, hospitals and the like.
The Anxiety Wrap is designed to apply desired levels of pressure to acupressure points along certain acupressure meridians along the body of the animal:
- Governing Vessel meridian
- Bladder meridian
- Liver meridian
- Conception Vessel meridian
- Gall Bladder meridian
- Stomach meridian
- The elastic and adjustable elements in The Anxiety Wrap specifically targets acupressure points in the neck, shoulder and chest area, belly, mid-section and hind legs.
