HCR Therapist Wins Top Award
When Carol Zehnacker was in high school,
she fell in love with the deltoid. That
fascination with human muscles led her to a
career in physical therapy. Earlier this
month, the Frederick woman was named the recipient
of the 2005 Kendall Award, Maryland's top physical
therapy award.
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Multiple Sclerosis and the Role of Rehabilitation
What is Multiple Sclerosis? Multiple Sclerosis
(MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central
nervous system. The central nervous system
(CNS) is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
Predominantly, it is a disease of the "white
matter" tissue.
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Parkinson's Disease: Can Physical Therapy
Help?
Actor Michael J. Fox and more recently,
the late Pope John Paul II have helped to draw
new focus and attention to the disease that
primarily affects seniors. Parkinson's
Disease (PD) is a progressive disease that primarily
affects specific areas of the brain involved
with movement, balance, and posture.
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Can Diabetes be Prevented? What is the
role of Physical Therapy?
To understand diabetes, we need to start
with food. When we eat, some of the food
is broken down into simple sugar called glucose.
Glucose is carried from your gut into the blood
and into the cells. In the cells, it acts
as a main source of energy.
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Osteoporosis - The Physical Therapist's
Role in Treatment and Prevention
At first, the physical therapist (PT) sets
the client up on an exercise program, works
in their balance, and teaches them how to get
in best care and in the right place. The
next level of care may involve a rehab facility,
nursing home, skilled nursing facility, assisted
living community, or back to home.
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Are You Aware of Your Risk?
In Part III, "Your Cushion Needs to Be More
Than Just Your Rear", we ended out discussion
by focusing on the importance of avoiding frailty,
and we just touched on the problems that can
arise in our bones as they become weak and brittle.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation,
44 million Americans aged 50 and older are affected
either by low bone mass or osteoporosis.
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HomeCare Rehab and Nursing, LLC Offers Physical Therapy,
Occupational Therapy
Elizabeth Convey, a well known local music
teacher, broke her hip and needed physical therapy
to recover from the partial hip replacement.
She didn't want to be restricted by "home bound"
requirements for some service, so she turned
to HomeCare Rehab and Nursing, LLC.
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Discovering the New World of Physical
Therapy Part II: How Your Body Changes with
Age: What's Normal, What's Not?
In the last issue of Most Magazine, I posed
several questions: "Do we gradually just fall
apart and die a slow death over the course of
many years, or can we be healthy up to the end?
Is what I'm experiencing normal age-related
decline or disease? These are questions
I hear often from my patients.
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Discovering the New World of Physical
Therapy and Its Implications for You Part I
Over the last few years, a lot of attention
has been focused on what is "normal aging" and
what isn't. Do we gradually just fall
apart and die a slow death over the course of
many years, or can we be healthy up to the end?
Is there more help out there? Am I aware
of all my options? These are the questions
that my patients often ask me.
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An Independent Man
Life has dealt Alfred Farrell some devastating
blows. But he's still standing - and walking,
in spite of losing both legs - thanks to a positive
attitude and physical therapy he received at
home. A diabetic, Al is legally blind
in one eye and has only one kidney, which doesn't
function, so he needs dialysis treatments three
times a week. And if that weren't enough
to deal with
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Fragility: How it Limits Healthy Living
In our Part II article, we looked at normal
changes that occur as we age and we just began
to touch on the topic of frailty and pathologic
changes like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and
some forms of diabetes that may potentially
be reversible or preventable. In this
issue, we want to continue
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