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Movement Rejuvenation

Movement Rejuvenation, Part 2
By Fred Miller, DC

At Doctors Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Group, we are specialists in movement rejuvenation. We restore motion of your joints and muscles, improve balance and bring back vitality and strength. You have lost so much of this over the years of taking care of everything else…except yourself. […]

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Lacombe Nursing Centre: Rehab S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten”

Lacombe Nursing Centre

Rehab S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten”

By Samantha R. Young, MCD CCC/SLP, Program Manager

The Rehab Department of Lacombe Nursing Centre developed and launched two interventions last fall that have been very successful with the residents that have participated, especially those who have returned home – S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten.” […]

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Managing Menopause with Chinese Medicine

Managing Menopause with Chinese Medicine

By Ashley Miller, MSTOM, ACA

Menopause marks a great transition in a woman’s life. Most women cringe at the thought of going through this change because of some of the “side-effects” that it seems to bring. The hormonal changes that accompany menopause often cause hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, insomnia, fatigue, and dryness, among other complaints. […]

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Health & Fitness

“It’s All About Timing: Total Joint Replacements”

“It’s All About Timing: Total Joint Replacements”

By Greg Zelden, PT, Director of Physical Therapy, Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital

When is it time to choose total joint replacement? Based solely on the personal nature of elective surgical procedures, one would anticipate their own need to elect surgical intervention. Yet, this is not a decision which is made easily; and, in some instances, the choice is made poorly. They wait too late. […]

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Emeritus at Overland Park

Emeritus at Overland Park
DESIGNED TO MEET THE RESIDENTS’ NEEDS…

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

A small community, Emeritus at Overland Park is divided into four separate houses all within the same building. Country Lane, Garden Path, Boathouse Cove, and Cottage Place each have its own indoor porch and front door. The houses are built around a center that includes the art studio, community room, beauty shop, and health center. […]

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Elder Abuse

Elder Abuse
By Linda Ahlhelm, RN, Elder Abuse Expert

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

Elder abuse is the mistreatment of an older person by someone who has a relationship with that person. It could be a spouse, child, friend, neighbor, caregiver or acquaintance. The actual abuse can occur in the home of a relative, the elder’s own home, or the home of an unrelated caregiver. […]

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A path towards healing: learning to find hope after the death of a family member

A PATH TOWARDS HEALING
Learning to find hope after the death of a family member

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

In the U.S. today, there is a natural, assumed order to the deaths we will experience in our lives. We believe that our grandparents will die first, then our parents, then our brothers and sisters, and then our children. […]

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Detect Lung Cancer with a Spiral Lung CT

Detect Lung Cancer with a Spiral Lung CT
Courtesy MercyCare Community Physicians, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine

Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer for both woman and men – behind breast and prostate cancer, respectively – but is the most deadly form of cancer for both genders. […]

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Bringing closure to veterans

Bringing closure to veterans

Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

When Deborah Grassman began her career as a hospice nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, she had the same fear of death that most people face, but what she discovered was how she could find peace, joy and fulfillment in caring for the former warriors at the end of their lives. […]

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Dramatically improve your wellbeing: 7 habits for a healthy life

Dramatically Improve Your Wellbeing
Seven habits for a healthy life

By Dr. Michelle Robin, Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine

A year ago I released a second edition of my first book, Wellness On A Shoestring: Seven Habits for a Healthy Life. In this book I share with you seven simple, inexpensive (even free) habits that can dramatically improve your wellbeing. While the habits are not season specific, there certainly are fresh and fun ways to integrate each of them with a summertime flare. Let’s explore! […]