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Stroke Rehab Times March 13, 2023
Here, in the final part of our three-part series on young stroke survivor Garrett Mendez, Dr Alyse Sicklick shares with SR Times her experience of treating younger stroke patients.
SRT: What are the key elements that elevate a younger person’s risk of stroke? AS: “Many of the risk factors that can affect an older person’s stroke risk – high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiac abnormalities, smoking, and drinking – can be major risk factors in younger people as well. There are many additional lifestyle and hereditary causes that can affect a younger person’s stroke risk, including connective tissue diseases, coagulation abnormalities, and even illicit drug usage.”
News 12 The Bronx By Marissa Alter March 16, 2023
George Kelakos, 66, of Greenwich has spent 40 years turning around businesses, bringing them back from disaster, as a lawyer and bankruptcy specialist. Now he's applying lessons learned in his career to his life.
"I'm doing my own turnaround. And in a turnaround, you don't look back and say, 'Woe is me.' You say, 'Ok, lessons that I learned, where am I now, and where do I want to go?'" Kelakos told News 12.
Drew Pisano, 34, doesn’t remember anything about the accident that nearly killed him, but the clues left behind at the scene piece together the story of how his plans for a “quick ride” on a beautiful fall day changed in the blink of an eye. “I’ve been riding bikes my whole life,” Drew said. “Dirt bikes, quads, motorcycles, I love them all.” More than his passion, bikes are also Drew’s livelihood. His Colchester-based business MotoBarn sells, maintains, and services bikes of all kinds.
Newstimes By Sanda Diamond Fox March 12, 2023
BETHEL — For the most part, Rob Stowell's days working the cash register and unloading food from trucks at Trader Joe's in Danbury are pretty typical — with one exception. All day long, every day, he coughs. He's not sick — his cough is from having a severe case of COVID-19 in 2020, where he came close to death...
Stowell, a Bethel resident and former teacher, has long COVID, which is defined as COVID-19 symptoms lasting longer than one month, said Jerrold Kaplan, a physiatrist and medical director of outpatient and workers' compensation services at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in Wallingford.
Scientific Reports By Stefanie Gaidos, Henry Hrdlicka & John Corbett Feb. 23, 2023
This feasibility study aimed to trial a Free Water Protocol (FWP) for patients with thin liquid dysphagia in the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) setting. Patients with dysphagia are often prescribed thickened liquids to avoid or mitigate aspiration. While this clinical intervention can minimize the risk of aspiration pneumonia (PNA), it is generally not well received by patients. As such, the goal of this study was to determine if patients who knowingly aspirate thin liquids can safely tolerate thin liquid water, and if so, to what degree of benefit.
Healthline By John Loeppky Feb. 23, 2023
Lower back pain is a common ailment that can drive people to take swift and sometimes invasive measures, like having surgery or taking opioids, in search of relief.
Now new research has found that there may be an ideal mix of non-opioid medication that can effectively treat lower back pain in many patients.
The new meta-analysis published this week in the Journal of Orthopaedic ResearchTrusted Source looked at data from 18 studies that contain data from 3,478 patients.
Rehab Stroke Time By Andrew Nealen Feb. 22, 2023
In the second part of a three-part series on young stroke survivor Garrett Mendez, who was only 19-years-old when he had a stroke, his mother Eileen Mendez shares her recollection of her son’s stroke and recovery.
Garrett’s stroke was caused by a head first hit into the boards during a hockey game. The hit occurred six days before he had the stroke. We were at that game. He was a freshman in college. Garrett played hockey since he was four and it was the worst hit I had ever seen. I thought he had broken his neck or was dead. Within a few minutes, he was moving his feet, he got up, was checked by the trainer who found no sign of concussion or anything else and he actually finished the game.
Stroke Rehab Times By Andrew Nealen Feb. 20, 2023
In the first of a three-part series on stroke survivor Garrett Mendez, who was only 19 years old when he had a stroke, we speak with Garrett himself on his survival story.
SR: Could you give us an introduction to yourself and your life pre-stroke? I am currently 36 years old. I live in Trumbull, Connecticut. Life pre stroke I was very athletic. For example, I played baseball, golf, and ice hockey in my younger years. I attended a private high school named Norte Dame of Fairfield because they have a competitive hockey team that I wanted to compete on. I ended up playing on Notre Dame’s varsity ice hockey from the time I was a freshman. During my sophomore year of high school Notre Dame started a varsity lacrosse team, which I made.
Rehab Management Magazine January/February 2023
"Adaptive Exercise Beyond Rehab" article on page 6. Rehab Management Magazine's cover story highlights Gaylord's Exercise for Life or EX4L program (see page 6). The article, written by Kimberly Levesque, PT, DPT, and Phil Silverio, PT, DPT, OCS, discusses that getting regular and effective exercise can be challenging for people with paralysis and other disabilities. To address this need, Gaylord outpatient physical therapists developed and launched Exercise for Life (EX4L), an exercise program that bridges the gap between rehabilitation services and independent, healthy living for people with paralysis, spinal cord injury, and other disabilities.
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