The path to
a healthier
you
in 2016
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With allergy season on the horizon, many people are preparing for all the sneezes and sniffles the season typically brings.
For longtime allergy sufferers, the season is one theyd
prefer to avoid.
However, there are several
ways to prepare for allergy
season and ensure theres
more time spent having fun
in the spring sun than fending off pesky allergies.
Take spring cleaning seriously.
Much like allergy season,
spring cleaning is a springtime
rite of passage for millions of
families across the country.
When spring cleaning, be
sure to do more than just
remove a winters worth of
clutter.
Molds are dormant during
the winter, but often emerge
at the first sign of spring.
To avoid succumbing to
any dust- or mold-related
allergies, clean the house
top to bottom, removing any
dust that might have settled
and solving any issues with mold
that might have developed over
the winter months.
Emphasize
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air inside the
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Becky Mortimore, with Hot Springs County Prevention Management, talks with participantes during last year's student health fair.
natives, Highway Patrol Drug Dog, Wyoming Department of Transportation, 3D printing, Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department, Gottsche, Kiwanis,
Paintbrush Dental and PMO of Wyoming.
Students seem to enjoy it, Spokeswoman Pennie
Anderson said of the TMS health fair.
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Physical therapy
can aid recovery
If youre suffering with pain you have no greater wish than to be rid
of it.
Physical therapy can help alleviate the effects of fractures, arthritis
and any number of pain related medical conditions through the use of exercise, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, traction or deep tissue massage.
Many patients find physical therapy increases their range of motion,
improves their balance, coordination and motor function as well as helping with muscle performance, all through a physician-recommended series of visits.
Your physical therapist will work through your doctor to create an individualized program for your recovery that may consist of a few weeks
of visits to long-term care.
In Hot Springs County, there are choices for physical therapy, including Leila Porath at the Physical Therapy Clinic and Gottsche Rehabilitation and Wellness Center .
Porath specializes in orthopaedic therapy with an emphasis on postsurgical therapy and pain management.
At Gottsche there are several on staff that are accustomed to working with patients of all ages.
Leila Porath owns and operates the Physical Therapy Clinic. She
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Fat findings
Dr. William Leslie of the University of Manitoba wondered if poorly measured body fat might help
explain the controversial obesity
paradox, in which some studies
have suggested that being moderately overweight later in life might
be good for survival. He tracked
50,000 middle-aged and older Canadians, mostly women, whod undergone screening for bone-thinning osteoporosis. Those screening X-rays known as DXA for
dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
measure bone and also allow an
estimation of fat.
A higher percent of body fat,
independent of the persons BMI,
was linked to reduced survival,
Leslie reported. Risk began rising
when body fat was in the range of
36 percent to 38 percent. Interestingly, being underweight also was
linked to reduced survival, possi-
Is BMI important?
Yes. Body mass index, or BMI,
is a measure of a persons weight
compared to their height. For many
people, thats plenty of evidence to
tell if theyre overweight or obese
and thus at increased risk of heart
disease, diabetes and premature
death. Generally, a BMI of 25 and
above indicates overweight, while
30 and above indicates obesity.
Someone who is 5 feet, 9 inches
would hit that obesity threshold
at 203 pounds.
But it is not a
perfect measure
Some people have a high BMI because theyre more muscular. More
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Most people wont benefit from a
DXA scan for fat, stressed Dympna
Gallagher, who directs the human
body composition laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center
and thinks those tests are more for
research than real life.
Other methods for determining
body composition range from measuring skinfold thickness to bioimpedance scales that use a tiny
electrical current, but all have varying degrees of error, Gallagher said.
Plus, normal body fat varies with
age and theres no agreement on
the best cutoffs for health, she said.
Her recommendation: Check
your waistline, even if your BMI
is normal. Abdominal fat, an apple-shaped figure, is riskier than
fat that settles on the hips. The
government says men are at increased risk of health problems if
their waist circumference is larger
than 40 inches, and 35 inches for
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keep it gentle:
Limit bath time. Hot water and
long showers or baths remove oils
from your skin. Limit your bath
or shower time, and use warm
rather than hot water.
Avoid strong soaps. Strong
soaps and detergents can strip oil
from your skin. Instead, choose
mild cleansers.
Shave carefully. To protect and
lubricate your skin, apply shaving cream, lotion or gel before
shaving. For the closest shave,
use a clean, sharp razor. Shave
in the direction the hair grows,
not against it.
Pat dry. After washing or bathing, gently pat or blot your skin
dry with a towel so that some
moisture remains on your skin.
Moisturize dry skin. If your
skin is dry, use a moisturizer that
fits your skin type. For daily use,
consider a moisturizer that contains SPF.
Eat a healthy diet
A healthy diet can help you look
and feel your best. Eat plenty of
fruits, vegetables, whole grains
and lean proteins.
The association between diet
and acne isnt clear but some
research suggests that a diet rich
in vitamin C and low in unhealthy
fats and processed or refined carbohydrates might promote younger looking skin.
Manage stress
Uncontrolled stress can make
your skin more sensitive and trigger acne breakouts and other skin
problems.
To encourage healthy skin
and a healthy state of mind take
steps to manage your stress.
Set reasonable limits, scale
back your to-do list and make time
to do the things you enjoy.
The results might be more dramatic than you expect.
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tation. Your hands will be washed and placed under a light that will show what kinds of bacteria are
still there.
Thermopolis Rehabilitation and Care Center offers its health fair favorite, hand waxing.
Vicki Powell returns with Healthcare Solutions.
She is certified to help clients with the Federal Market Place.
There will also be an eye and vision testing machine and a height, weight and body fat machine.
Outside the school, the Thermopolis Volunteer
Fire Department will staff a fire engine. Guardian
Life Flight will bring in a helicopter.
Emissary Pharmacy will be available to look into
people's prescriptions and make sure nothing they
are taking will have adverse effects.
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Doctors and physicians assistants from Red Rock Family Practice will be on hand during the Kiwanis Health Fair to discuss blood draw
screenings and provide referrals, as needed. Above, physicians assistant Colleen Hanson goes over a screening with a health fair attendee.
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Massage,
supplements,
wellness
Several certied massage therapists practice in Thermopolis including Mary Spradley (Days Inn),
Sandy Richens (Nu Vogue Salon),
Val Curley (Gottsche Rehabilitation
and Wellness Center), Vanessa Lillie (Wind River Massage Therapy
and Healing), Marion Burr-Bishop,
who also specializes in aquatic therapy at TePee Spa, and independent
therapist Colleen Andretti.
Natures Corner and the Crow
Bar provide the community with a
long list of products aimed at alternative medicines that include vitamin supplements and minerals as
well as herbal remedies.
To help keep you healthy they
also provide a good selection of whole
foods and unprocessed selections as
well as healthy drinks available at
the Crow Bar.
To enhance your wellness routine, Days Inn and Gottsche Rehabilitation and Wellness Center provide exercise equipment and classes
to keep you as healthy as possible.
Star Plunge also has exercise equipment available.
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There will be a number of interactive and informative booths during the Kiwanis Health Fair.
Brief evaluations such as hearing tests, eye exams and BMI tests will be available.
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Rollercoaster journey
Coffey enjoyed early success. He
was initially able to repair the vision
of several patients by transplanting
healthy cells from other parts of their
eye into diseased areas and his work
was praised by peers in the field.
However, a lack of funding threatened to curtail his progress, and by
2006 it had become almost impossible to continue. That was the most
difficult period, Coffey reflects. The
project could have finished there.
But it didnt.
Coffey received a surprise call
from an anonymous U.S. philanthropist offering a no-strings donation of
$5.6 million.
Coffey seized the opportunity, and
made an ambitious commitment _
to fast-track a stem cell therapy for
AMD in human trials within five
years, a process that might otherwise have taken 20.
The London Project to Cure Blindness was born.
The first step was to assemble an
inter-disciplinary A-team of scientists, engineers and clinicians, including vitreoretinal surgeon Lyndon De Cruz, who would eventually
conduct the landmark procedure.
The team moved swiftly through
the phases: They selected human
embryo cells as their source, after
rejecting those of cadavers, demonstrated the procedure using animals
and manufactured the cells to clinical standards for use in humans.
That was the most confidenceboosting part of the project, recalls
Coffey. We had the cells in the dish
and they would do whatever we wanted _ eat rubbish, produce chemicals,
handle stress _ whatever we threw
at the cells, they passed.
A thriving landscape
The landscape today for eye-related stem cell therapy is teeming
with innovation and competition.
Groups in the United States, Japan
and Israel are testing RPE replacement treatments with a range of cell
sources and delivery methods, including a new type of stem cell that
had arrived on the scene, known as
Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells.
In 2012, John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize
for Medicine for their discovery and
development of iPS cells, which allow almost any cell in the body to be
reprogrammed into a stem cell. Using these as a source would lower the
risk of immune-system rejection as
the patients own cells can be used,
and this also sidesteps ethical objections to the use of embryos.
The first iPS cell trials with humans were on RPE cells, at the Riken Center in Japan. However, this
highlighted a key risk of the practice, as the trial was discontinued
after causing abnormal growth in
one subject.
Looking out for hurdles
Coffey believes there are two major health concerns with this form of
cell therapy. You dont want cells to
proliferate _ this is often defined as
a tumor, he says. You also dont
want cells wandering off elsewhere
in the body (such as) your heart or
lungs. But he is convinced that the
eye should remain the vanguard of
stem research, and Deborah Sweet,
editor of Cell journal, agrees.
The eye has advanced more than
most areas, she says, adding that
Coffeys work is one of the first examples of stem application and Im
excited to see it.
Dr. Sally Temple, president of the
International Society for Stem Cell
Research, believes Coffeys therapy
can enable further breakthroughs.
If RPE replacement works, this will
help pave the way for replacement of
other retinal cells, and other central
nervous system cells.
However, Temple adds a note of
caution over the current trial. A
permanent patch such as polyester forms a barrier. If the RPE cells
die (this) could cause the overlying
retina to die.
The future will have a cure ...
and more
Following his recent successes,
Coffey is already pursuing new horizons. He is globalizing his AMD
therapy through an affiliate in California, and running offshoot project
the Bank of Disease, targeting new
treatments for a range of blindnesscausing conditions, such as the inherited conditions Retinitis Pigmentosa and Stargardts Disease that
also result from damage within the
retina. The scientist is also looking
even further ahead, predicting that
it will become possible to regenerate cells in the body itself _ without
need of transplants.
I always keep sight of the future,
says Coffey.
Thanks to his work, millions of
people could keep theirs.
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The Teddy Bear Clinic returns to the health fair, by popular demand. Children are encouraged to bring their teddy bears, dolls and other
stuffed animals for a health check up.
BMI
Perhaps the best way to assess your weight is to
use something called body mass index, or BMI.
BMI is an indicator of how much body fat a person has, but its only an estimate. Because muscle
weighs more than fat, its possible for a muscular
person to have a high BMI, but that doesnt mean he
or she has too much body fat. Likewise, its possible
for someone to have a low or ideal BMI but still have
too much body fat.
One way to get a BMI report is during a health fair
such as the event being held Saturday in Thermopolis.
Why Do People Become
Overweight or Obese?
Most of the time, people have too much body fat
because the body gets more calories (from foods and
drinks) than it burns through physical activity, such
as playing soccer or walking to school. Extra calories
are stored as fat. The more extra calories a person
consumes, the more fat is stored.
This happens very easily in modern life. People
spend more time in front of TVs or computers and
less time exercising. We drive instead of walking or
riding bikes.
Weight problems also can run in families, but dont
let that discourage you from making changes that
could help you reach a healthy weight. Your habits
what kind of food and how much you eat and how
much you exercise can make a big difference.
How Can Excess Weight
Hurt Your Health?
Its hard to feel good when your body has too much
weight to carry. Being overweight or obese can make
it harder to breathe and sleep. It can make a person
feel tired and cause aches or pains. A weight problem
also can make you embarrassed, sad or even angry.
And when people feel bad, they may eat more because
food can be comforting. This isnt a good idea, especially if someone is already overweight.
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