Horizon PT - October 2020

Horizon PT - October 2020

physical therapy and rehabilitation October 2020

3600 Miller Road, Flint, MI 48503 • 810-620-8042 • horizonptflint.com

WHAT MADE HALLOWEEN SO GREAT GROWING UP A Frightening, but Welcome, Escape From Reality More than most other holidays, Halloween is a day when kids can just be kids. Everyone is so serious all the time, and many times, kids are expected to emulate that seriousness. Halloween is one day when all that’s expected of a kid is to either ask for candy on a strangers’ front porch or get themselves scared silly at a haunted house. When I was really young, Halloween was all about dressing up, playing make-believe in our costumes, and planning the best trick-or-treating route possible. From previous years of experience, we knew which neighborhoods would have the best candy. I remember the best neighborhood for trick- or-treating was Mott Park, across the street from where my clinic on Miller Road is today. Many of you might know that area as the Miller Road Mansions — and you know that if someone has a mansion, there’s a good chance they’ll have some full-sized candy bars to hand out on Halloween! As a teenager, Halloween became less about trick-or-treating and more about thrill seeking at the local haunted houses. I don’t know that I was ever truly scared while making my way through a haunted house, but there were definitely parts of it that made me jump. Plus, when I went with a group of friends, half the fun was watching everyone jump because of the creepy, and sometimes gory, monsters that leapt from the shadows. I had a few pretty memorable experiences at local haunted houses. One time, when I was 16 or 17, in the commotion of running away from all the monsters, one of the girls in our group lost her shoe in the house. She insisted that I go back into the house with her to get it. At first, I told her she should go back in there by herself, but since her shoe was only a little ways back inside the house, we both ended up going in after it and braving that last part of the haunted house a second time. For a few years, a group of my friends and I tried to find a haunted house that supposedly was so scary that they let anyone who made it through the entire house have their money back. We didn’t have the internet to look the

“More than most other holidays, Halloween is a day when kids can just be kids.”

place up — or any sort of navigation to help us get there — so all we knew was that it was called Nile’s Scream Park. The one year that we did try to find it, we ended up getting lost on the way there and having to turn around. I guess we’ll never know exactly what made that haunted house so scary! Everyone knows haunted houses and monsters aren’t real, but for a day, or even just for 5–10 minutes, everyone believes in them a little bit. That’s what makes Halloween fun — it’s a time when kids can escape the drudgery of real life for something more exciting (albeit more frightening). That’s why, even if I’m not trick-or-treating, dressing up in costumes, or terrifying myself at a haunted house anymore, I’ll always remember the holiday fondly. 1 810-620-8042 -Dr. Jerome Adams

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3 MIND-BLOWING FACTS ABOUT TACO BELL

The Secret Link Between Home Depot, the Government, and Fast-Food Tacos

1. Home Depot helped bring Doritos Locos Tacos to life. After Frito-Lay reached out to Taco Bell to suggest a collaboration, the development team turned to a hardware store for help. To create the famous snack, they “basically went out to Home Depot to buy a paint-spray gun” and blasted a taco with Dorito dust, according to Grub Street. 2. Taco Bell killed Taco Kid. Before it bought Taco Bell in the 1970s, PepsiCo tried to compete with it. The company launched a restaurant dubbed Taco Kid under its Pizza Hut banner. According to Mental Floss, Taco Bell swiftly stomped out its kid brother. In response, PepsiCo opened its wallet and bought the chain for $130 million. 3. The U.S. government was behind the Quesalupa (sort of ). In February 2016, Taco Bell launched the Quesalupa, a taco featuring a shell stuffed with melted pepper jack cheese. It was the chain’s cheesiest offering to date, perhaps because it got a boost from Dairy Management Incorporated, the branch of the United States Department of Agriculture in charge of unloading the country’s 1.4-billion pound cheese surplus . That’s right: The Quesalupa was (kind of ) a tasty government conspiracy. This is just the tip of the Taco Bell iceberg. To learn about the chain’s wacky endeavors (including putting a bullseye in the ocean for astronauts and flying 10,000 Doritos Locos Tacos to Alaska by helicopter), visit TacoBell.com/History.

Did you know that Oct. 4 is National Taco Day? Corn or flour tortillas, hard or soft shells, we really love our tacos here in the USA. According to NationalTacoDay.com, Americans ate more than 4.5 billion tacos last year. End to end, that’s 490,000 miles of tortilla-wrapped beans, meat, and cheese.

By far, the biggest peddler of light-speed tacos in the country is Taco Bell, the fast-food scion of Americanized Mexican cuisine. In 2012, Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco went the food equivalent of viral, selling more than 500 million tacos in just 14 months. It seems like there’s a Taco Bell on every street corner, but how much do you really know about the chain? To celebrate National Taco Day, we’re serving up three Taco Bell facts that will blow your mind.

A Pain-Free Tomorrow OUR PAT I ENTS SAY I T BEST

“Ever since I was recommended for physical therapy, I was little skeptical. My pain was unbearable when I first visited Horizon. My outlook on therapy changed when I realized the staff knew how to treat patients. From the receptionist and therapist to the doctor himself, they always go above and beyond to ensure your experience with them is a positive one. Not only did my hip pain drastically decrease, but I also lost over 50lbs just from the advice and exercise regimen I got from the doctor. If you were like me and feel unsure about seeing the right rehabilitation center, I highly recommend coming here.”

“I came for my ankle and my elbow, and they both feel so much better after coming here!”

–Gabrielle Gray

–Nickolas Terrell

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DO I NEED PHYSICAL THERAPY

Before I Get Surgery?

their surgery. By partaking in physical therapy beforehand, doing physical therapy as part of a postoperative care regimen won’t seem nearly as arduous. Prehab can be so valuable to patients awaiting surgery that physical therapy (in unique cases) can sometimes help patients avoid surgery altogether. One of the primary goals of physical therapy is to avoid invasive procedures to increase a patient’s mobility or range of motion. However, when surgery is unavoidable, prehab is still worth the effort. Most physical therapists agree that six weeks before a surgery is the optimal time to start a prehab routine with a licensed physical therapist — though you can do it for a shorter amount of time and still reap some of the benefits. If you have an upcoming surgery and you want to prepare yourself accordingly, give Horizon PT a call today. Our physical therapists will take your unique prehab needs into consideration and help you create the best routine to prepare you for your surgery and beyond.

Most people probably know that physical therapy helps with the recovery process after surgery. However, did you know that doing physical therapy before your surgery can also help with the recovery process? Sometimes called prehabilitation or “prehab,” physical therapy before surgery can help prepare patients for the post-surgery recovery process — and even improve the functionality of the surgery area over its pre-surgery range of use. The essential benefit of prehabilitation is that by strengthening the pre- surgery area, you can optimize the outcome of the procedure. Your muscles and joints will be as strong as possible going into the surgery, which in turn, can decrease the amount of time that you spend doing postoperative rehabilitation. In fact, one study found that physical therapy before joint replacement surgery decreased the need for postoperative care by 30%. In addition to the physical benefits of prehab (such as shorter post-surgery hospital stays and quicker recoveries), the psychological benefits should not go unmentioned. Prehab can help patients mentally prepare themselves for

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Roasted Rosemary Brussels Sprouts and Potatoes

Inspired by “The Oh She Glows Cookbook”

If you’re having trouble getting the kids to eat Brussels sprouts, try this delicious vegan recipe as a side dish. Every vegetable tastes better roasted!

Ingredients

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1 1/2 tsp sugar

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3 cloves garlic, minced

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1 3/4 lbs fingerling potatoes, halved lengthwise

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1 tsp sea salt

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2 tbsp fresh rosemary, minced

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1/4 tsp pepper

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3 cups Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved

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4 tsp olive oil

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 2. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Toss until the Brussels sprouts and fingerlings are evenly coated with oil and seasonings. 3. Spread the mixture on the baking sheet, then bake 35–38 minutes, stirring halfway through. Add more salt and pepper as desired, then serve!

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THIS ISSUE Inside

A Frightening, but Welcome, Escape From Reality

3 Mind-Blowing Facts About Taco Bell

Our Patients Say It Best

Why You Should Consider Trying Physical Therapy Before Surgery

Roasted Rosemary Brussels Sprouts and Potatoes

The Great Resistance Band Shortage of 2020

WHY COVID-19 MADE THI S EXERCI SE GADGET A HOT COMMODI T Y THE GREAT RESISTANCE BAND SHORTAGE OF 2020

WHY ARE THEY SO IRRESISTIBLE RIGHT NOW? First and foremost, resistance bands are a great tool for home workouts. They’re light and fold easily, so they’re simple

When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in March, home workout equipment flew off the shelves almost as quickly as hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Resistance bands were one of the first things to become scarce. Even in May, The New York Times was still posting warnings on its exercise articles, citing “COVID-19 stock shortages” on resistance bands and explaining that “we expect problems to persist.” So, what exactly is a resistance band, and what makes it so special? If you’ve been wondering about them since they made the news, now’s your chance to find out. WHAT IS A RESISTANCE BAND? A resistance band is basically a giant elastic band used for strength training, physical therapy, and muscle rehabilitation. PT clinics stock them for their patients, but they’re often used in gyms and homes, too. The bands come in a variety of styles, sizes, and materials, but most are either basic circles or have loops on each end to be used as handles during workouts. They’re called resistance bands because they offer resistance when pulled, making them great for building muscle.

to store. They’re also useful for a variety of exercises. You can stand on one end of the band and grab the other to do biceps curls, for example, or pin it under your foot and grab both ends while lunging to make your workout more challenging. The possibilities are endless, particularly when combined with other equipment like dumbbells or a pullup bar. WHERE CAN YOU GET ONE? At the time of this writing, resistance bands are still out of stock in some places and selling out quickly everywhere. ResistanceBandTraining.com has high-end bands in stock, though, and Bodylastics.com is also a good source, as it gets shipments regularly and offers customer updates. The bands can range from $8 to over $80, though, so it never hurts to check Amazon or big box stores like DICK’S Sporting Goods for inexpensive options — you might even catch them on a restock day!

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