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MOVE FREELY. Feel Younger. WALK FARTHER.

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“Don’t Let Pain Postpone Your Adventures!” The simple solution is to put the spring back in your step. This is accomplished by first analyzing how you walk. There are slight changes in the way that you walk and move, that our trained medical experts can pick up on. This analysis tells us just what joints or muscles are stiff, stuck or weak. By pinpointing the exact areas of your body that are not moving as they should, we can make a plan to increase motion, strength and improve coordination. EFFECTIVE HIP & KNEE PAIN RELIEF Put the Spring Back in Your Step Do you find it harder to walk, run or exercise? Is hip, knee or leg pain keeping you from being active? If so, understanding how your body walks and moves can be the key to putting the spring back in your step. Think of your body as a big spring that stores and releases energy with every step. The efficiency of your walk comes from the effectiveness of your flexibility, strength and balance. When any one of these is off, it affects your ability to walk efficiently and takes a lot of energy. This results in strain to different joints and makes muscles work much harder than they need to. This leads to possible pain in the back, hips and knees. It also causes fatigue after walking, even for a little while. If you are experiencing pain again after therapy, it might be because muscles or joints have tightened or become weak again. The Remedy

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“Can You Perform These Simple Movements?” FIND OUT IF YOU ARE MOVING LIKE YOU SHOULD

Can you do these simple tests to see if your hips and legs are as flexible and strong as they should be? Try them for yourself and let us know how you did. Use caution and common sense when attempting these tests; do not continue if they cause pain or discomfort.  Do not attempt if you have had a hip replacement. • From standing, can you touch your toes? This indicates hip and low back flexibility. • In sitting can you comfortably cross your legs so that your ankle is resting on the other knee? Does one knee go further down than the other? This indicates hip flexibility. If one hip is tighter than the other, it can wreck havoc with your walking and even cause knee pain. • Keeping your feet flat on the floor and holding onto something solid, how far can you squat down? You should be able to squat all the way down so your buttocks almost touch your heels. Don’t let your heels pop up! If you favor movement to one side, you probably have hip weakness on that side or limited motion in the hip joint. • Standing near a counter top put one foot in front of the other so that you are touching heel to toe. Without putting your hands down, see if Exercise Essential Hip Adduction - Sidelying While lying on your side, slowly raise up the bottom leg towards the ceiling. Keep your knee straight the entire time. The top leg should be bent at the knee and your foot planted on the ground supporting your body.

you can balance for 10 seconds, keeping yourself steady. If you cannot, then you have trouble with the coordination of your balance from the nerve endings in your hip, knees, ankles and feet. Restoring Normal Pain Free Motion Restoring normal motion is key to alleviating pain and allowing you to do the activities you love to do safely. Physical therapy is the key to restoring normal joint and muscle motion. Our medical experts pinpoint the key problem areas that you may not even be aware of and focus on a custom treatment plan that will restore your normal pain-free motion. Performing at Your Best Whether you are just out for a walk or an avid athlete, we can help you walk, run and play better. With our motion analysis, strength testing, coordination testing and more, we can spot your muscles and joints that need flexibility, strength or coordination. A specific training and treatment plan is then put together to help you reach your peak movement with the least effort. Discover how our Spine Program transforms your back pain from a pressing problem, to a distant memory, allowing you to live a happy, active and pain-free life. EatingRightNever TastedSoGood! HEALTHY RECIPE fyzicalutah.com

Roquefort Pear Salad INGREDIENTS • 1 head leaf lettuce • 3 pears • 5 ounces Roquefort cheese • 1 avocado • 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions • 1/4 cup white sugar • 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar • 1 1/2 teaspoons white sugar • 1 1/2 teaspoons prepared mustard • 1 clove garlic, chopped • 1/2 cup pecans • 1/3 cup olive oil

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• 1/2 teaspoon salt • Fresh ground black pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS In a skillet over medium heat, stir 1/4 cup of sugar together with the pecans. Continue stirring gently until sugar has melted and caramelized the pecans. Carefully transfer nuts onto waxed paper. Allow tocool, and break intopieces. For the dressing, blend oil, vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar, mustard, chopped garlic, salt,andpepper. Ina largeservingbowl, layer lettuce,pears,bluecheese,avocado, and green onions. Pour dressing over salad, sprinkle with pecans, and serve.

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Patient Success Spotlight

“If everybody could hear like this, there wouldn’t be any more secrets in the world.”

One of our favorite things is to hear success stories from patients--and in this case from a hearing loss patient: Imagine him, he’s your average, cute 75 year-old man. He’s kind, but impatient and frustrated because he feels disconnected. When he goes out to eat with family he watches their faces light up with laughter as they laugh and joke. But he wonders....What is it that they are talking about? He leans forward for a while because he can hear the sounds, but he has more and more trouble making out the words. Finally he leans back in his chair and folds his arms, tired of asking “What? What?” He came to us not wanting hearing aids, but his daughter insisted on him trying them. So he reluctantly got the hearing aids to keep his daughter happy. (Like I said he is very kind) But when he came back two weeks later for a follow up, you should have seen his face. There was more light, more life, more connection in his interactions.

We didn’t have to ask...but finally we did. “How are the hearing aids?”

He smiled big as he leaned in close to whisper, “If everybody could hear like this, there wouldn’t be any more secrets in the world.” Moments like this are what keep us going. We want to help even more people. So, we are doing a big promotion for hearing aids. If you have been holding off because they are expensive, this is your time to jump. Bring in this coupon below for unbeatable prices, and experience BETTER HEARING!

TheRoger Pen

...and speaking of secrets. Have you heard of the Roger Pen? Brace Yourself, you are about to feel like accepting a James Bond Mission. The Roger Pen is a directional microphone in the form of a pen. it connects with your hearing aids and makes it even easier to select what you want to hear. When you are in noisy environments, you can point the pen at the person speaking. You

can also stand the pen in the middle of the dining table to pick up all the conversation at the table. Your friends and family will be even more impressed when you get up to go to the bathroom, then returnand jump rightback in theconversation because you heard everything that was said through the microphone of the pen you left on the table. Let the secret-agent-missions begin!