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Sarah Bush Lincoln – Mattoon Center For Healthy Living

Hours:
5 am to 8 pm • Monday – Thursday
5 am to 7 pm • Friday
7 am to 3 pm • Saturday & Sunday

Center for Healthy Living
1004 Health Center Drive, Suite 110
Mattoon, IL 61938
217-238-3488
fax 217-238-3485


Healthy Living Medical Exercise Program

120-Program

Regular exercise is fundamental in chronic illness management, weight loss, and overall health maintenance. It boosts immune systems, relieves stress, helps regulate blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, increases lung capacity and metabolism and a whole host of other benefits.

Through the 120-day Healthy Living Medical Exercise program, participants receive a custom-designed exercise and lifestyle program to help them achieve their goals and manage chronic illnesses. The exercise program is tailored to their limitations and goals, with options and tools to make meaningful, positive changes. The overreaching goal is to instill lifelong healthy behaviors that foster independence and encourage participants to transition to a long-term community-based exercise program.

Getting Started

All participants are required to obtain clearance from their medical provider before beginning any program at the Healthy Living Fitness Center. A provider-signed order is needed to begin program. Restrictions or recommendations from your provider will be used in designing your exercise program.

Program Goals

• Enhance quality of life
• Manage chronic conditions
• Prevent avoidable hospitalizations
• Delay onset or reoccurrence of symptoms
• Support and help achieve individual goals
• Behavior modification
• Achieve a consistent fitness program
• Transition to a long-term community based exercise program, including a YMCA membership at the Center for Healthy Living.

The Program Includes

• Exercise program, designed by an exercise specialist
• Use of Healthy Living Fitness Center
• Access to group fitness classes
• Consultation with a dietitian on an as-needed basis

Program Features

• A free informational orientation session, which includes a guided tour of the facility, information about the medical exercise program and class offerings, and a pre-participation health screen.
• Health-related fitness testing
– Initial fitness test
– Midpoint fitness test (2 month)
– Final fitness test (4 month)
• Medical monitoring and vital sign checks.
• Individualized and supervised exercise programs. Plus, appointments with an Exercise Specialist for exercise and education
– up to 3 times / week during months 1 and 2
– up to 2 times /week during month 3
– up to 1 time / week during month 4

Who Can Benefit

Our customized Medical Exercise Services are designed to benefit people with conditions such as:
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Chronic pain
• Depression
• Cancer
• Osteoporosis
• Postpartum
• Arthritis
• People working on:
– Post-rehabilitation from injury or surgery
– Weight reduction

What’s Next?

When you complete the 120-day program, our goal is to keep you moving. You may continue to use the Fitness Center through a reciprocal arrangement with the Mattoon Area Family YMCA. You can join the YMCA and select to use this facility. Scholarships and senior discounts are available. If you wish to continue to use a personal trainer, you may purchase sessions.

Membership includes full use of the facility during hours of operation, seven days a week. For more information, please ask a Center for Healthy Living staff member, or call the YMCA at 217-234-9494.

 

Article From:  Sarah Bush Lincoln

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Pana Community Hospital – Occupational Therapy

Pana Community Hospital – Our Occupational therapist is a highly-trained individual who has multiple years of experience who helps individuals achieve independence in all aspects of life.  The role of an Occupational therapist is to help people develop, recover or maintain daily living skills by applying a variety of specialized treatments.  The goal is to ensure that patients lead independent, productive and satisfying lives.  Our Occupational therapist is also specialty trained in Hand Therapy, specializing in the assessment and treatment of diagnoses and/or injuries of the upper extremity.

Hand and Upper Extremity expertise for treatment following:

fractures

tendon injuries

nerve injuries

arthritis

amputations

infections

joint replacements

Splint fabrication and brace application of the upper extremity

Lymphedema treatment

Rehabilitation of the neurologically-involved patient including Parkinson’s disease and those who have suffered a stroke.

Ergonomics evaluation and modification

Fine motor and coordination assessment and retraining

Cognitive visual perceptual evaluation and training

Retraining dressing, bathing, toileting skills

Adaptive Equipment training for increasing or maintaining function

Kitchen and meal preparation assessment and skill building

Activity modification and energy conservation

Lymphedema Management of the Upper Extremities

Referral to our occupational therapist that specializes in manual lymph drainage can help you manage swelling of the upper extremities.  The therapist may treat your lymphedema problem with:

Education

Self-massage

Exercise

Compression garment and/or bandages

Complete decongestive therapy by the therapist

Article From:  Pana Community Hospital

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Pana Community Hospital – Physical Therapy Services

Pana Community Hospital

Physical therapists are experts in the way the body moves. Your therapist will identify the cause of pain or loss of function.  Each patient is evaluated at the area of complaint as well as contribution of the surrounding areas to the identified problem.  We approach patient function at home and work versus focusing on symptoms alone.   A physical therapist understands that your road to recovery is personal, so you will always receive a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs.  Our therapists provide one-on-one treatment and as well as skilled hands-on manual therapy.  Your highly-qualified therapists and assistants will educate you in your condition and how you can work to improve it.

Our team of highly-trained clinicians work together to treat a wide variety of conditions ranging from, but not limited to:

Neck pain and headache management

Mid and lower back pain

Shoulder/Elbow/Forearm/Wrist pain

Decompression for acute and chronic lower back pain

Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) Dysfunction

Temperomandibular Joint (TMJ) Dysfunction

Total Joint programs

Hip/Knee/Ankle pain

Post-Surgical Rehabilitation

Pediatric Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Treatment of Neurologic Conditions

Post-stroke management

Spinal cord injury

Management of all pediatric conditions causing developmental delay

Generalized weakness

Vestibular rehabilitation

Balance re-training

Vestibular and Balance Rehabilitation

The PCH Rehabilitation Department offers treatment for the dizzy patient including treatment for BPPV (benign positional paroxysmal vertigo), inner ear disorders and much more.  Once the cause of dizziness is determined, the vestibular system must be trained in the same way other muscles in the body are…with exercise.  If you have questions concerning treatment please contact Patra Deere, MPT at (217) 562-6328.

Work Conditioning

Work Conditioning is a work-related intensive and goal-oriented treatment program specifically designed to restore an individual’s strength, endurance, movement, flexibility and cardiopulmonary functions.

Job simulation:  Job simulation is a therapeutic intervention that will “mimic” the type of work that has to be done in the work place.  Whatever the activity simulated, in this setting, it is controlled and gradually increased to levels required for work and maximum functional improvement.

Job Demands:  Information about your job will be obtained to set up an individualized treatment program that will include:  push/pull, lift, carry, reach, impact/jarring work, fine motor, overhead and low-level work.

Balance Re-training

The therapists of PCH are trained to differentiate the cause of balance disorders.

Often these could include:

Brain injury

Generalized weakness

Vestibular disorders

Poor hip or ankle strategies

The Biodex Balance System is a tool available at PCH for therapists to re-train your body to effectively respond to loss of balance and minimize falls.

Article From:  Pana Community Hospital

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Clay County Hospital – Measles Vaccination

One of the Recommended Vaccines

Measles is a very contagious disease caused by a virus. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Measles starts with fever. Soon after, it causes a cough, runny nose, and red eyes. Then a rash of tiny, red spots breaks out. It starts at the head and spreads to the rest of the body.

Measles can be prevented with MMR vaccine. The vaccine protects against three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella. CDC recommends children get two doses of MMR vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age. Teens and adults should also be up to date on their MMR vaccination.

The MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective.

Children may also get MMRV vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). This vaccine is only licensed for use in children who are 12 months through 12 years of age.

Before the measles vaccination program started in 1963, an estimated 3 to 4 million people got measles each year in the United States. Of these, approximately 500,000 cases were reported each year to CDC; of these, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 developed encephalitis (brain swelling) from measles. Since then, widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a greater than 99% reduction in measles cases compared with the pre-vaccine era. However, measles is still common in other countries. Unvaccinated people continue to get measles while abroad and bring the disease into the United States and spread it to others.

Article From:  Clay County Hospital

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Clay County Hospital – Preventing the Flu: Good Health Habits Can Help Stop Germs

The single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year, but good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu. There also are flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat and prevent flu. The tips and resources below will help you learn about steps you can take to protect yourself and others from flu and help stop the spread of germs.

  1. Get Vaccinated

    Get your family vaccinated: fight flu!

    The seasonal flu vaccine protects against the influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. There are several flu vaccine options for the 2018-2019 flu season.

    Avoid close contact.
    Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

  1. Stay home when you are sick.
    If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. This will help prevent spreading your illness to others.
  1. Cover your mouth and nose.
    Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Flu and other serious respiratory illnesses, like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), are spread by cough, sneezing, or unclean hands.
  1. Clean your hands.
    Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.
  • Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
    Tips on hand washing and using alcohol-based hand sanitizers
  • It’s a SNAP Toolkit: Handwashing
    Hand washing resources from the It’s A SNAP program, aimed at preventing school absenteeism by promoting clean hands. From the School Network for Absenteeism Prevention, a collaborative project of the CDC, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Cleaning Institute.
  1. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
    Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.
  2. Practice other good health habits.
    Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home, work or school, especially when someone is ill. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)Everyday preventive actions, like nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), are actions – apart from getting vaccinated or taking medicine – that people and communities can take to help slow the spread of illnesses like influenza (flu).

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Preventing Flu at Work and School

At School

  • Find out about plans your child’s school, child care program, or college has if an outbreak of flu or another illness occurs and whether flu vaccinations are offered on-site.
  • Make sure your child’s school, child care program, or college routinely cleans frequently touched objects and surfaces, and that they have a good supply of tissues, soap, paper towels, alcohol-based hand rubs, and disposable wipes on-site.
  • Ask how sick students and staff are separated from others and who will care for them until they can go home.

Learn more about preventing the flu, common questions and answers, and poster materials for schools: Resources for Schools, Childcare Providers and Parents

At Work

  • Find out about your employer’s plans if an outbreak of flu or another illness occurs and whether flu vaccinations are offered on-site.
  • Routinely clean frequently touched objects and surfaces, including doorknobs, keyboards, and phones, to help remove germs.
  • Make sure your workplace has an adequate supply of tissues, soap, paper towels, alcohol-based hand rubs, and disposable wipes.
  • Train others on how to do your job so they can cover for you in case you or a family member gets sick and you have to stay home.
  • If you begin to feel sick while at work, go home as soon as possible.

Learn more about how you can help prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu at work : Flu Prevention at WorkA

Article From:  Clay County Hospital