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Cpl. BANG-KNUDSEN: Sure. Samba has been trained specifically to mitigate the -my startle response. For example, any supermarket I remind - I think about like a Costco or something, you know, maybe a larger store with big aisles and walking around those corners is a stressor for me. And when - I think everybody's run into someone like coming around and meeting at the intersections of the aisles if, you know, you're coming around the corner, a blind corner in a supermarket. And while the normal reaction is, you know, excuse me, or you can laugh it off, the startle response for someone with PTSD, who already has their hypervigilance up, is something that it increases and can lead to sort of flashbacks of memories of war and being, you know, in a survival instinct, fight or flight situation.
So one of the commands that Gloria was speaking of earlier is we have Samba pop the corner, and what she does is she walks slightly ahead of me and simply looks around corners and identifies whether or not there's people there to me by stopping and looking at me. And we have what's called synchrony and Samba and I have been paired long enough that we are working together and are on the same schedule.
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Cpl. BANG-KNUDSEN: Sure. Samba has been trained specifically to mitigate the -my startle response. For example, any supermarket I remind - I think about like a Costco or something, you know, maybe a larger store with big aisles and walking around those corners is a stressor for me. And when - I think everybody's run into someone like coming around and meeting at the intersections of the aisles if, you know, you're coming around the corner, a blind corner in a supermarket. And while the normal reaction is, you know, excuse me, or you can laugh it off, the startle response for someone with PTSD, who already has their hypervigilance up, is something that it increases and can lead to sort of flashbacks of memories of war and being, you know, in a survival instinct, fight or flight situation.
So one of the commands that Gloria was speaking of earlier is we have Samba pop the corner, and what she does is she walks slightly ahead of me and simply looks around corners and identifies whether or not there's people there to me by stopping and looking at me. And we have what's called synchrony and Samba and I have been paired long enough that we are working together and are on the same schedule.
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