Live Better Longer

FOX Rehabilitation takes great pride in our culture—we instill the concept of an “exchange of abundance” to encourage our colleagues to deliver more than what is expected. We were inspired when we heard the story of “The Envelope Artist.” 

On today’s episode of FOX’s Live Better Longer podcast, FOX’s Jim Shearer speaks with his neighbor and friend, Melody, who explains how asking for a hard-copy receipt in the mail, led to receiving mini works of art in her mailbox and an eventual friendship with an artist named Emily. Instead of spoiling it all right here, why don’t you just click on this week’s episode and listen to this feel-good story yourself!

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Dr. Remi Onifade, PT, DPT, M. Ed CCVT, CCI is the co-founder and president of the National Association of Black Physical Therapists. She discusses what inspired her to become a physical therapist, what drove her to start the NABPT and the challenges behind making the healthcare industry more diverse and inclusive. Dr. Onifade also talks us through the NABPT’s upcoming virtual conference, happening June 17-19.

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In this week’s episode of FOX Rehabilitation’s Live Better Longer podcast, FOX occupational therapist, Savanna Grife MS, OTR/L, discusses post-polio syndrome, a condition that can affect polio survivors decades later. Savanna discusses the symptoms—including muscle fatigue—and how to strategize activities of daily living to conserve a patient’s energy. Savanna also talks about the history of post-polio syndrome, when she first found out about it, and how to uniquely treat patients who have been diagnosed with the nerve and muscle disorder.

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On this week’s episode of FOX’s Live Better Longer podcast, Lanie Hefferly, MS, OTR/L, joins us and reveals a list of six things she learned during her first six months with FOX Rehabilitation. Lanie takes us into her exploration of becoming a more resourceful and skilled occupational therapist, learning how to achieve a better work-life balance, and how she continues to advocate for her profession. Lanie also gives advice to recently graduated clinicians looking for their first job in the field.

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As Better Speech & Hearing month ends, FOX speech-language pathologist Tyler Young, MS, CCC-SLP, looks ahead to Aphasia Awareness Month and discusses the public misconceptions surrounding it, especially in the wake of the announcement of Bruce Willis’ aphasia diagnosis. Tyler talks through the symptoms, how a speech-language pathologist can treat patients affected by the disorder, and how it parallels his own father’s story, who also has aphasia.

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FOX Rehabilitation speech-language pathologist, Sherilyn Morse, MS, CCC-SLP, CDP, discusses patient-centered therapy and the importance of weighing individual factors for each patient, like personal environment, impairments, limitations, and restrictions. Sherilyn explains how becoming a “therapy detective” will best help you treat an older adult patient as well as how to adjust if a patient declines a certain recommendation.

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Who better to interview during Nurses Week and a few days removed from Mother’s Day than a nurse and a mother? FOX’s Jim Shearer is joined by his mother, Laurie Shearer, RN, as they look back on her career as a registered nurse, one that included over 20 years of working with older adult patients. Laurie will discuss what inspired her to become a nurse, why she decided to get back into the profession after raising five children as a homemaker, and what she enjoyed most about working with older adults. (Laurie is no stranger to the airwaves. She was a frequent guest on Jim’s former SiriusXM radio show.)

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Kicking off Better Speech & Hearing Month, this week we are joined by FOX’s Kate Hoener, M.A., CCC-SLP, who explains what led her to become a speech-language pathologist. Kate discusses dysphagia management, including what to look for in a clinical swallow examination. She also addresses some myths behind dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia.

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FOX Rehabilitation CEO, Dr. Robyn Kjar, makes sure to send every FOX colleague an email greeting on their birthday. But when Dr. Kjar sent one to FOX occupational therapist, Sue Paige, MS, OTR/L, she got more than she expected. Sue Informed Dr. Kjar that she was her high school lacrosse coach! Shortly after, Dr. Kjar set up a reunion with Coach Sue. Listen now to hear Sue talk about Dr. Kjar as a high school student and what it was like when she discovered that one of her star players would eventually be the CEO of the practice where she now treats older adult patients.

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Because it’s Autism Awareness Month, we wanted to highlight autism on the Live Better Longer podcast by speaking with FOX physical therapist, Audra Vellucci, PT, MPT. Through her experience as a clinician—and being the mother of a teenage son who was diagnosed with autism at a young age—Audra dispels the myth that autism is only a pediatric disability. She also presents prevalence numbers, the importance of knowing patients on an individual level, and the different challenges of working with older adult patients who were diagnosed with autism later in life.

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