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Submitted by lyn on January 8 - 12:13

People have always enjoyed a walk around a beautiful garden. It somehow creates a feeling of peace and tranquility, or inspires your creativity. For centuries beautiful gardens have surrounded large estates as well as small cottages. In the hustle bustle of our busy lives we are drawn to escape to even a small piece of nature. It helps us feel better. Can you imagine New York City without Central Park? New Yorkers flock to the park every day throughout the entire year. Surrounding yourself with trees and grass improves your overall health. The following study  shows that improving the hospital environment with green plants leads to a more effective recorvery of surgery patients.

Posted in Environment, Surgery on Tue December 30, 2008
Study results suggest that taking a friend or relative flowering plants or flowers when they are in hospital could aid their recovery.

Seong-Hyun Park and Richard Mattson from Kansas State University set out to discover whether contact with plants brought any therapeutic benefits to patients recovering from abdominal surgery. To do this they studied 90 patients who were recovering from an appendectomy were randomly assigned to a hospital room with or without plants for their post-surgery recovery.

Results showed that patients with plants in their rooms used significantly less pain relief, had lower blood pressure and heart rate, reported experiencing less pain, fatigue, and anxiety, and were more satisfied with their rooms than patients allocated rooms without plants.

The authors concluded: “Findings of this research suggested that plants in a hospital environment could be noninvasive, inexpensive, and an effective complementary medicine for patients recovering from abdominal surgery.”

Park SH, Mattson RH. Effects of Flowering and Foliage Plants in Hospital Rooms on Patients Recovering from Abdominal Surgery. HortTechnology 2008;18:549-745.

News release: Flowering plants speed post-surgery recovery. American Society for Horticultural Science. December 29th 2008.

 
In conclusion; if placing a small flowering plant in your recovery room can improve your health, imagine creating a beautiful landscape that you could surround yourself with everyday! At Allgood Outdoors & Wakoola water gardens we celebrate nature and want to help you improve your life and your health by bringing it to your backyard. Call us and lets get started on your perfect landscape.
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