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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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any time now for our community connection. And we're talking with our friends from

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Eldercare, and we have Josh Limblam
here with us and he is with foundation

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therapy specialist. And you're right there
inside the building and take care of a

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lot of folks and a lot of
folks gotta returning kind by just being like

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happier, healthier people. Yeah.
Yeah, we're right there in the middle

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of Eldercare. Yeah. Absolutely,
that's our goal. Now, tell us

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you got a lot of new things
going on. You just received a nice

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grant. We did, we did. We're super blessed to receive the carlc

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and Mary Joe Anderson. We did
a grant challenge, a challenge grant,

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and we're able to get a lot
of equipment through that in an individual donor

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and then the Lion Foundation kind of
kicked in the end of it, as

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they do for so many things in
this community. It's gonna allow us to

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do all kinds of stuff. So
a lot of our equipment that we have

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that people warm up on, we
call them new steps, the recumbent cross

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trainers, and we're able to get
six brand new new steps, which for

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a clinic like ours, working in
a nonprofit like Eldercare, that's a huge

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blessing to be able to get all
new equipment for our folks to use.

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So and especially you know that version, the recovered version, Daddy is.

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That's pretty pretty clever. Actually,
it's a designed for us. It's the

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most universally usable piece of equipment that
we have. So you can get a

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workout upper body, lower body,
cardio all on one piece of equipment.

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It's gonna be great. Well,
I tell you the folks who use your

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services. My mom used to be
one, and she's a little bit about

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hoot, but anyway she would come
back. She says, well, you

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know, I am a little bit
tired, but the next day I just

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feel so much better. Yeah,
And and people will take away those victories

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any day. They'll they'll be a
little tired in the afternoon, so they

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can feel better for a good week
or a month. Absolutely, that's that's

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kind of that's the story here.
A lot is a lot of people taking

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maybe a thirty minute nap after they
leave, but over the course of a

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few weeks of working out consistently,
people start to really see results. So

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other stuff that we're gonna get from
that grant is we're gonna get a vestibular

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goggles. So what that means is
they're infrared goggles where they actually take a

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video of your eyes when we're doing
vertigo treatments, because a lot of people

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don't understand that physical therapy does a
lot of work with people with vertigo.

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As we do it now, I'm
using my eyes to look at your eyes

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to see what they're doing, because
a lot of times when people have vertigo,

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their eyes are doing what we call
the stagmus, they're moving back and

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forth. A lot of people don't
really understand that. But with these goggles,

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we'll be able to take the video
of their eyes, allow our eyes

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to see the finite things that we
can't see without a camera, and also

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be able to kind of educate the
patient on what's going on on. So

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it's gonna really enhance our ability to
help people with balance issues, vestibular problems.

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So it's gonna be a lot of
I think we're gonna get a ton

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of use out of these gobbles.
I think I think so too. It's

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as we age. One of the
things that comes to us is the forefront

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is balanced. We just don't have
the get up, jump and run and

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do things like we used to.
We gotta get let's get steady here and

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then move for it. A lot
of people that we see are there for

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balance, whether they're young or old. A lot of people have balance issues.

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Whether I tell you what, it's
great, great hands there with you

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guys. No, what patients do
you take? I mean, there was

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our qualification or something like that.
You need to referral from a dog.

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You know, in Oklahoma, you
don't need to referral from a doctor to

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go to outpatient therapy. We're an
outpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and

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speech therapy clinic. So in in
our region we're the only one that offers

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all three on an outpatient level.
You don't need a referral for thirty days.

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I can see you for thirty days. And that doesn't mean that we're

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not gonna converse with your physician.
I'll send your doctor a planet care and

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keep everyone in the loot. But
yeah, as far as age wise,

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we see people. We see adults
of all ages. I think on the

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pediatric side we have some we have
other clinics in town that serve that community

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a little bit better. But adults
of all ages. I'm actually you know,

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I'm been a turn forty this year
and in my age group, you

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know, I'm becoming a lot more
popular because a lot of my friends need

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therapy. So we are, Yeah, we serve, We serve people of

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all ages. You know you mentioned
speech therapy. Sometimes people have strokes,

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maybe even just like a small stroke, right, but it will affect their

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speech. Yea. And not only
yeah, not only speech, but cognition,

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swallowing, word finding, all kinds
of different aspects to speech, that's

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not just talking. Abbe sees a
lot of people. Abby Peterman is our

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speech therapist and it's a blessing to
have her in our clinicum as much as

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you can. And you know,
on that same side, when when someone's

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had a stroke, sometimes they need
all three disciplines. So our occupational therapist,

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Susan Clifton, is also a certified
hand specialist, so um that is

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also a certification that's kind of tough
to get and a little bit harder to

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find. So we have that foundation. Also, you've got it all,

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man, got it all. You
know, there are folks who have problems

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everything from carpal tunnel to maybe some
finger numbness and things like that. That's

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right, they didn't have in their
twenties and thirties, and more and more

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will have it because we're a computer
loving you know, society and phones and

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all that stuff. So yeah,
it's it's nice to have that expertise in

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the clinic. Well, that is
great, and you know you love working

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with people. Uh you know,
folks who've used your services just said,

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you know, it's a blessing.
I go in there, I know things

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are going to get better. I
don't know, it's going to be sometimes

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a challenge, but you know what, they take the fear and the anxiety

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away from it all and there they
really feel comfortable coming in there and really

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feel comfortable trying new things too.
And that's you know, you talked about

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balance earlier, and that's kind of
the goal. You know, you want

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to you have to spend time with
people. So we're a one on one

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clinic, so if you're in there, you're with a therapist one on one

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all the time, and you can
establish that kind of relationship where people do

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feel comfortable trying new things. And
that's what it's going to take to really

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get better, especially with balance,
because we're gonna do things that you might

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be scared to do at home,
but you're going to a safe environment.

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We're gonna try stuff and try to
you know, get your confidence up because

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that's a big deal. You know, the fear of falling is almost worse

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than falling because it hinders your ability
to even move it all. So your

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anxiety level is on you know,
twenty five, right, and you know

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the next thing, you know,
you've become a prisoner within your own fear.

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That's true. So yeah, so
give them a call, would you,

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folks, if you're kind of in
that, I don't know what my

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next step is, give Josh a
call, and how do we reach you.

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Yeah, my number or our clinic
number is nine eight seven six six

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zero three nine one and the Eldercare
mainline is three. That is wonderful.

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So we're about there in the Eldercare. We're easy to access and you know,

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folks, and just ask you a
question. I mean, it doesn't

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hurt pick up the phone and ask. Yeah. Absolutely, we're there to

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answer the community's questions, just like
you're trying to keep people connected here with

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this show. We're trying to keep
people connected with their hobbies, their lives,

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their relationships. So if we can
keep people moving for as long as

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we can, they can stay engaged. And that's that's our goal, keep

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people independent, happy and healthy.
And we cover that big grant and all

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the new equipment stuff like that,
what else is happening out there that we

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didn't cover, because I'm thinking I
forgot something. Well there, you know,

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there are in addition to what I
mentioned earlier, we're gonna get new

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parallel bars, some new treatment tables. Some of the stuff we've had out

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there or is from two thousand and
eight and it's reached this end of life

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cycle. All kinds of new equipment. But more importantly, we're going to

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a new physical therapist. Her name
is Rachel Johnson. She starts next week,

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so we're super excited. She was
a student with us a few years

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ago and she's gonna be a great
fit and a great asset, so we'll

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have more availability to see more patients. Wonderful, doctor Josh, Thank you,

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I appreciate it. Thanks for the
time. And by the way,

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my mom said told doctor Josh high
Josh Lin Bloom here with you from Elder

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Care and with Foundation therapy specialists.
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