All Care Therapies of Georgetown

All Care Therapies is a multi specialty clinic that provides speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy to both pediatrics and adults. We're located in Georgetown, Texas. Feel free to check out our website at www.allcaretherapygt.com!

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Top Fine Motor Tools for Under $1

The next few days have some bad weather forecasts, and if school gets cancelled, you'll be desperate for activities to keep your kiddos entertained. Check out this blog we found for some cheap and easy OT approved fine motor activities to keep your little ones (and their hands!) busy here.

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Exercise and the Heart

The American Heart Association posted an article about exercise and the heart earlier. We found the information in the article very interesting and would like to encourage people to read it here. A brief summary is as follows:

Physical activity and exercise training have important roles in:

Preventing atherosclerotic CAD;

Managing selected CAD risk factors, including elevated triglyceride levels, low HDL-C, hypertension, glucose intolerance, hypertension, obesity, and possibly cigarette use;

Treating patients with CAD, HF, and claudication.

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Liver Cancer

National Cancer Prevention Month is coming to a end, so we’d like to do one more post about cancer awareness and prevention. Specifically, we’d like to talk about liver cancer.

Liver cancer is considered one of the more preventable cancers since 80% of the primary liver cancers worldwide are caused by exposure to Hepatitis B and C. Hepatitis B and C are preventable infections, since they are spread through sexual contact and blood, respectively. Make sure you know the health of your sexual partner. If you are uncertain, use protection. Also, use safe practices around needles.

Unfortunately, there is no vaccination for Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is spread through blood. The best way to prevent Hepatitis C is to avoid using intravenous drugs or fluids (such as a saline or electrolyte bag) unless prescribed by a doctor and administered by a trained professional in a hospital setting. Do not share needles. It is not recommended that a person do at home piercings or tattoos. Please go to a sterile and safe parlor for any tattoo or piercing.

Another way to prevent liver cancer is to not drink excessively. Heavy drinking can cause cirrhosis, which is linked to liver cancer. Smoking is also a cause of liver cancer (as well as many other cancers), so it should be avoided as much as possible. Maintaining a healthy weight can also decrease your chances of getting liver cancer, since fatty liver disease and diabetes are both linked to liver cancer. Fatty liver disease is typically found in persons who are obese. Please be aware that you can be a thin person and still be classified as obese if your BMI or body fat percentage is too high. You can also be a curvier person and still be considered fit if your metabolism is healthy and your lifestyle is an active one. Every body is different, so please consult with your doctor to find out what weight is best for your body, and what fat percentage is ideal for yourself. When we advise maintaining a healthy weight, we do mean a weight that is best for your individual body that allows it to function in a healthy manner. Again, please consult your doctor and discuss what your ideal weight is.

Remember, early dectection is a big factor in cancer treatment, so please get regular check ups and screenings with your doctor to be sure that your body is healthy.

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We found a great website full of resources to help families with children who have attention or learning difficulities. The website is full of information for all areas of life including relationships, family, treatment options, and community resources. Go check it out!

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Operation Smile

In honor of National Children’s Dental Health Month, we’d like to take a moment to talk about Operation Smile. Operation Smile is an organization that provides safe and effect cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries, as well as postoperative and ongoing medical therapies to children in mid to low income countries. They not only provide these services as charity, but they also participate and contribute to research for the prevention, treatment, and eradication of cleft lip and cleft palate.

You can donate to the cause directly on Operation Smile’s website here. Our staff member, Jasmine, also participates in donations through the Zachary Levi fanclub crowdrise page here. Donations through crowdrise are tax deductible, and people who donate $10 or more will receive a picture of Zachary Levi.

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We are so excited to share our first promotional video with you today! Thanks to everyone who helped us put this together!

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The Great American Spit Out!

Today is the Great American Spit Out! In honor of both National Cancer Prevention Month and National Children's Dental Health Month (though hopefully this will pertain more towards adults), we've decided to feature a flyer by UCanQuit2 about chewing tobacco. You can find more information and visit their website here.

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Send A Valentine!

Valentine's Day is coming up, so if you're still looking for a Random Act why not send a Valentine card to a patient at Texas Children's Hospital. Fill out the information on this page, and your card will be delivered to a child in time for Valentine's Day!

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The benefits of a good night’s sleep 

It’s 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep? Shai Marcu defends the latter option, showing how sleep restructures your brain in a way that’s crucial for how our memory works. Did you know that sleep restructures your brain in a way that’s crucial for how your memory works? So, don’t forget to sleep!

Research shows that during sleep our brain’s structure is being altered. Synapses are forming during sleep. Scientists have proven that we are waking each morning with a different brain, cleansed of toxins and full of new connections from the previous day’s learning. All of which just goes to affirm the phrase, “Sleep on it”.

Nineteenth century psychologist, Herman Ebbinghaus, demonstrated that we normally forget 40% of new material with the first twenty minutes, a phenomenon known as the forgetting curve. But this loss can be prevented through memory consolidation, the process by which information is moved from our fleeting short-term memory to our more durable long-term memory, thanks to the hippocampus…and a good night’s sleep!

Animation by Javier Saldeña

From the TED-Ed Lesson The benefits of a good night’s sleep - Shai Marcu 

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Valentines!

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Please take the time to visit our website at www.seeandbesafe.com #seeandbesafe

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Gait Problems

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I Love Physical Therapy!

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Dating With Asperger's

We found an interesting article in which NPR's Katherine Streeter interviews Jesse Saperstein. The interview took place shortly after the release of Mr. Saperstein's book and discusses the struggles and challenges Mr. Saperstein faced in the dating community. It also gives a bit of dating advice. You can read the article in full here and purchase the book here.

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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS WEEK

February 9-15th is Random Acts of Kindness Week. Too often these days we hear stories about people being rude or hateful, and listening tends to dampen our mood and make us think the worst. But we know that people are ultimately good, so to combat all the negativity this week we encourage people take a moment out of their lives to do one kind thing for somebody. Become a RAKtavist here and participate in the Random Acts of Kindness Week.

We will be celebrating all week, doing small acts as the week progresses. Midway through the week, on the 12th, we’ll share our stories of acts of kindness we participated in so far. We want you to share your story with us as well, whether you end up being on the giving or receiving end of a Random Act of Kindness. Use the “Contact Us” section of our blog to share your story with us, or share it on our Facebook page. You can also message us on this tumblr account. We’ll post a few stories on our blog at the end of the week, February 15th.

If you need help thinking of a Random Act of Kindness, we’ve posted some suggestions below from the Random Acts website. You can also visit the website here and find more suggestions. They included handy filters to look within a certain price range and time commitment for act ideas.

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We had so much fun volunteering today at the Special Olympics! Our team had the pleasure of helping with handing out medals and awards to all the athletes at Mel's Bowling here in Georgetown. It was such an honor to be able to participate in such a meaningful event and help such an amazing organization. We can't wait until the next event!

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Wear Red!

Today is National Wear Red Day/Go Red for Women Day! Go Red for Women is trying to make this year the biggest Go Red year yet! You can participate to by uploading a pic of yourself and tagging it with #GoRedSelfie. The event only lasts through February 28th, so hurry!

We have our selfie here!

National Wear Red Day started in 2003, and has made a great impact in its decade of existence. Through the research, education, and awareness, their website states that:

Nearly 90% have made at least one healthy behavior change. More than one-third has lost weight. More than 50% have increased their exercise. 6 out of 10 have changed their diets. More than 40% have checked their cholesterol levels. One third has talked with their doctors about developing heart health plans. Today, nearly 300 fewer women die from heart disease and stroke each day. Death in women has decreased by more than 30 percent over the past 10 years.

Wear Red for Women is a great awareness program used to shed light that while men suffer from CVD at higher rates, women are still at risk and shouldn’t shrug off the disease as “something only men need to worry about”. In truth, CVD is the number one killer of BOTH men AND women. Some commonly missed symptoms that tend to be overlooked include shortness of breath, nausea and flue like symptoms, jaw and back pain.

The Lahey Hospital provides an excellent break down of the gender specific differences of heart disease, which can be found in full here.

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