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Adam Burns, DPT, and Angie Hoerner, PTA, from Abilene Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab recently attended KPTA Legislative Day on the Hill on January 25, 2011. Legislative Day provides PT’s, PTA’s, and students the opportunity to meet with their legislators, making them aware of the KPTA and what our profession involves.  Adam and Angie met with Senator Pete Brungardt and Representative Tom Moxley. Legislative Day is a yearly event sponsored by the Kansas Physical Therapy Association. This year, approximately 90 PT’s, PTA’s and students attended.

Members also got to meet Governor Brownback, pictured above.

KPTA Legislative Day on the Hill-January 25, 2011
Back row L to R: Cody Barnett, PT; Mark Dwyer, PT; Paul Silovsky, PT
Middle row L to R: Ron Hein, JD; Christina Wisdom, PT, DPT; Stacia Troshynski-Brown, PT, DPT; Pam Palmer, PT; Angie Hoerner, PTA; Susie Harms, PT
Front row seated: Governor Brownback

New Equipment

Abilene Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab recently added the NuStep TRS 4000 Recumbent Cross Trainer to our therapy/gym equipment.  It is the most popular recumbent cross trainer in the health care and fitness industries.  It combines a comfortable sitting position with a smooth stepping motion.  It provides simultaneous upper and lower body motion to work all the major muscle groups helping all users burn calories, build strength, and improve their overall cardiovascular fitness.  It stimulates a natural walking motion while eliminating undesirable joint stress and promoting functional fitness.  Its ergonomic design accommodates nearly every body type and size, includes a swivel seat for easy transfer, and has a large, easy to read display. The NuStep exerciser is excellent for aerobic conditioning because it works all of the major muscle groups in both your upper and lower body. The benefit of this total body workout is that your cardiovascular system grows stronger, and your heart, which is a muscle, also becomes stronger and more conditioned.  As a result, you can engage in physical activities without feeling winded.

 

Gym Hours

8am to 7pm Monday thru Friday
9am to 11am Saturday

Burns completes educational course

Adam Burns, DPT, with Abilene PT & Sports Rehab, completed a continuing education course on “Evidence-Based Examinations and Treatment of the Foot and Ankle in the Active Patient.” The course concentrated on the functional anatomy and biomechanics of the foot and ankle, biomechanics as they relate to the foot and ankle with running, examination of the foot and ankle for musculoskeletal pathology, treatment strategies
based on the literature for common musculoskeletal injuries to the foot and ankle, and
basic arch taping techniques.

Adam Burns, DPT, with Abilene Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab, recently completed a continuing education course on “The Mulligan Concept-Upper Quadrant.”  This course concentrates on spinal and peripheral manual therapy treatment techniques.  This hands on, manual physical therapy treatment is used to benefit patients with decreased or painful range of motion of the spine, shoulder, elbow and hands.  This treatment also assists with return to pain free gripping, overhead reaching, lifting and other functional activities.

Mills completes educational course

Tonya Mills, PT, recently attended “Rotator Cuff
Syndrome: From Impingement to Post-Operative Rehab”
in Wichita, KS. This course outlined exercise programs
for shoulder impingement, lesions and tears with hands on manual exercise. Attendees examined rotator cuff injuries that occur at different points in the human lifespan and treatment for each population. Common injuries such as instability in teenagers and degenerative joint disease in aging populations were examined.

Tonya Mills, RPT, with Abilene Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab recently attended a course on “Evaluation and Treatment of Bladder Incontinence.”  Tonya specializes in Women’s Health and this program provided further information on treatment and education in urinary leakage/abdominal strengthening for both men and women.  People that will benefit from this program: 1) Pre and Post Partum women, 2) Urinary leakage of men and women, 3) Post menopausal women, 4) Nerve injuries from surgeries, 5) Radical prostatectomy, 6) Pelvic and abdominal weakness, 7) Constipation, 8) Neurogenic problems such as stroke, MS, and Parkinsons.

Hoerner completes educational course

Angie Hoerner, PTA, with Abilene PT & Sports Rehab,
completed a continuing education course on “Falling
Less in Kansas.” The course highlighted the prevalence,
incidence, consequences and risk factors for falling in
general and specific to Kansas, guidelines related to fall
prevention in older adults and the disconnect of these
recommendations for medically underserved populations
including rural Kansas and the socio-economically
disadvantaged, and effectively assisting patients in practical implementation of the FallingLinKS tools related to physical activity, medication safety, vision screening and referral, and home safety assessment.