Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
any time now for our community connection. And we're talking with our friends from
Eldercare, and we have Josh Limblam here with us and he is with foundation
therapy specialist. And you're right there inside the building and take care of a
lot of folks and a lot of folks gotta returning kind by just being like
happier, healthier people. Yeah. Yeah, we're right there in the middle
of Eldercare. Yeah. Absolutely, that's our goal. Now, tell us
you got a lot of new things going on. You just received a nice
grant. We did, we did. We're super blessed to receive the carlc
and Mary Joe Anderson. We did a grant challenge, a challenge grant,
and we're able to get a lot of equipment through that in an individual donor
and then the Lion Foundation kind of kicked in the end of it, as
they do for so many things in this community. It's gonna allow us to
do all kinds of stuff. So a lot of our equipment that we have
that people warm up on, we call them new steps, the recumbent cross
trainers, and we're able to get six brand new new steps, which for
a clinic like ours, working in a nonprofit like Eldercare, that's a huge
blessing to be able to get all new equipment for our folks to use.
So and especially you know that version, the recovered version, Daddy is.
That's pretty pretty clever. Actually, it's a designed for us. It's the
most universally usable piece of equipment that we have. So you can get a
workout upper body, lower body, cardio all on one piece of equipment.
It's gonna be great. Well, I tell you the folks who use your
services. My mom used to be one, and she's a little bit about
hoot, but anyway she would come back. She says, well, you
know, I am a little bit tired, but the next day I just
feel so much better. Yeah, And and people will take away those victories
any day. They'll they'll be a little tired in the afternoon, so they
can feel better for a good week or a month. Absolutely, that's that's
kind of that's the story here. A lot is a lot of people taking
maybe a thirty minute nap after they leave, but over the course of a
few weeks of working out consistently, people start to really see results. So
other stuff that we're gonna get from that grant is we're gonna get a vestibular
goggles. So what that means is they're infrared goggles where they actually take a
video of your eyes when we're doing vertigo treatments, because a lot of people
don't understand that physical therapy does a lot of work with people with vertigo.
As we do it now, I'm using my eyes to look at your eyes
to see what they're doing, because a lot of times when people have vertigo,
their eyes are doing what we call the stagmus, they're moving back and
forth. A lot of people don't really understand that. But with these goggles,
we'll be able to take the video of their eyes, allow our eyes
to see the finite things that we can't see without a camera, and also
be able to kind of educate the patient on what's going on on. So
it's gonna really enhance our ability to help people with balance issues, vestibular problems.
So it's gonna be a lot of I think we're gonna get a ton
of use out of these gobbles. I think I think so too. It's
as we age. One of the things that comes to us is the forefront
is balanced. We just don't have the get up, jump and run and
do things like we used to. We gotta get let's get steady here and
then move for it. A lot of people that we see are there for
balance, whether they're young or old. A lot of people have balance issues.
Whether I tell you what, it's great, great hands there with you
guys. No, what patients do you take? I mean, there was
our qualification or something like that. You need to referral from a dog.
You know, in Oklahoma, you don't need to referral from a doctor to
go to outpatient therapy. We're an outpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and
speech therapy clinic. So in in our region we're the only one that offers
all three on an outpatient level. You don't need a referral for thirty days.
I can see you for thirty days. And that doesn't mean that we're
not gonna converse with your physician. I'll send your doctor a planet care and
keep everyone in the loot. But yeah, as far as age wise,
we see people. We see adults of all ages. I think on the
pediatric side we have some we have other clinics in town that serve that community
a little bit better. But adults of all ages. I'm actually you know,
I'm been a turn forty this year and in my age group, you
know, I'm becoming a lot more popular because a lot of my friends need
therapy. So we are, Yeah, we serve, We serve people of
all ages. You know you mentioned speech therapy. Sometimes people have strokes,
maybe even just like a small stroke, right, but it will affect their
speech. Yea. And not only yeah, not only speech, but cognition,
swallowing, word finding, all kinds of different aspects to speech, that's
not just talking. Abbe sees a lot of people. Abby Peterman is our
speech therapist and it's a blessing to have her in our clinicum as much as
you can. And you know, on that same side, when when someone's
had a stroke, sometimes they need all three disciplines. So our occupational therapist,
Susan Clifton, is also a certified hand specialist, so um that is
also a certification that's kind of tough to get and a little bit harder to
find. So we have that foundation. Also, you've got it all,
man, got it all. You know, there are folks who have problems
everything from carpal tunnel to maybe some finger numbness and things like that. That's
right, they didn't have in their twenties and thirties, and more and more
will have it because we're a computer loving you know, society and phones and
all that stuff. So yeah, it's it's nice to have that expertise in
the clinic. Well, that is great, and you know you love working
with people. Uh you know, folks who've used your services just said,
you know, it's a blessing. I go in there, I know things
are going to get better. I don't know, it's going to be sometimes
a challenge, but you know what, they take the fear and the anxiety
away from it all and there they really feel comfortable coming in there and really
feel comfortable trying new things too. And that's you know, you talked about
balance earlier, and that's kind of the goal. You know, you want
to you have to spend time with people. So we're a one on one
clinic, so if you're in there, you're with a therapist one on one
all the time, and you can establish that kind of relationship where people do
feel comfortable trying new things. And that's what it's going to take to really
get better, especially with balance, because we're gonna do things that you might
be scared to do at home, but you're going to a safe environment.
We're gonna try stuff and try to you know, get your confidence up because
that's a big deal. You know, the fear of falling is almost worse
than falling because it hinders your ability to even move it all. So your
anxiety level is on you know, twenty five, right, and you know
the next thing, you know, you've become a prisoner within your own fear.
That's true. So yeah, so give them a call, would you,
folks, if you're kind of in that, I don't know what my
next step is, give Josh a call, and how do we reach you.
Yeah, my number or our clinic number is nine eight seven six six
zero three nine one and the Eldercare mainline is three. That is wonderful.
So we're about there in the Eldercare. We're easy to access and you know,
folks, and just ask you a question. I mean, it doesn't
hurt pick up the phone and ask. Yeah. Absolutely, we're there to
answer the community's questions, just like you're trying to keep people connected here with
this show. We're trying to keep people connected with their hobbies, their lives,
their relationships. So if we can keep people moving for as long as
we can, they can stay engaged. And that's that's our goal, keep
people independent, happy and healthy. And we cover that big grant and all
the new equipment stuff like that, what else is happening out there that we
didn't cover, because I'm thinking I forgot something. Well there, you know,
there are in addition to what I mentioned earlier, we're gonna get new
parallel bars, some new treatment tables. Some of the stuff we've had out
there or is from two thousand and eight and it's reached this end of life
cycle. All kinds of new equipment. But more importantly, we're going to
a new physical therapist. Her name is Rachel Johnson. She starts next week,
so we're super excited. She was a student with us a few years
ago and she's gonna be a great fit and a great asset, so we'll
have more availability to see more patients. Wonderful, doctor Josh, Thank you,
I appreciate it. Thanks for the time. And by the way,
my mom said told doctor Josh high Josh Lin Bloom here with you from Elder
Care and with Foundation therapy specialists. Right theory inside