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Great
River Urology
Now Accepting Patient Appointments
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Daniel Lee, M.D. (left), and Brian Lindaman, M.D., will provide care through Great
River Urology, a new clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of urologic conditions.
They will begin seeing patients in the clinic on Monday, Aug. 20. |
Great
River Urology, a new clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of urologic conditions,
is now accepting patient appointments. Great River Urology is staffed by Daniel
Lee, M.D., and Brian Lindaman, M.D. Drs. Lee and Lindaman recently completed their
residencies in urology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Dr. Lee received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where he received the Everett Carl Burgess Award for the most outstanding senior
medical student in surgery. Dr. Lindaman received his medical degree from the
University of Iowa. For the past three years, he has been recognized for achieving
the highest performance on his urology residency in-service examination.
Great River Urology is located in Suite 303 of the Eastman Plaza
(next to
Great River Medical Center), 1223 S. Gear Ave., West Burlington.
Patients
interested in scheduling an appointment may call (319) 768-3925.
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PulseBeat TV Special Focuses on 'Life Fitness' Programs
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Performance Program Coordinator Chris Reed works with Southeastern Community College
basketball player Cecil Stinson at Great River Center for Rehabilitation in West
Burlington. |
Unlike
most facilities of its kind, the Center for Rehabilitation at Great River Medical
Center is not just where people get better after they've been sick or injured.
"We
began as a rehabilitation center with traditional rehabilitative programs," said
Lynette Collier, FACHE, M.H.A., O.T.D., executive director of Integrated Services
for Great River Health Systems.
Although the Center for Rehabilitation
still provides those services, a special documentary to be broadcast this month
will explore its many additional programs that help improve every part of a person's
life: Everyday
life
Leisure/athletic
life
Work
life
A
Healthier Way of Life
Because people live longer, but often with chronic
illnesses, the Center for Rehabilitation emphasizes disease prevention and a healthier
way of life.
"You could go through rehabilitation after a procedure to
fix a problem," Collier said. "But if you didn't change your way of life, we would
see you again. We allow people to join here after rehabilitation so we can monitor
their progress and motivate them to change. Our goal is life fitness."
Fitness and lifestyle programs at Great River Center for Rehabilitation go far
beyond what regular exercise clubs offer. They help each member identify risk
factors that cause illness - then help them counter those factors through exercise,
proper nutrition and lifestyle management.
The Center for Rehabilitation
groups its programs into three clusters to help its members: Janet
Schnoeblen, a Center for Rehabilitation member, overcame chronic back problems
after a car accident and improved her life in part because of "Move" programs.
Each week, Monday through Saturday, the center offers 15 group exercise classes
- from aerobics to yoga - and 45 aerobics sessions in two warm-water pools.
"I'd been going to physical therapy since 1999," Schnoeblen said. "Three years
ago, they moved me into the water. In August 2006, I had surgery to fuse vertebrae.
When my incisions would let me, I got back into the water. It's given back my
sense of living."
Through more than a dozen "Restore" programs - such
as Diabetes Education, Heart and Lung Disease Rehabilitation, and the Wound and
Hyperbaric Clinic - people regain abilities or learn how to adapt, so they improve
their lives and remain active.
To help people "Transform" their lives,
Great River Medical Center is shifting the emphasis to prevention, instead of
just caring for illness. "Our target is the deconditioned, possibly overweight
adult," said Jamie Dengler, M.B.A., supervisor, Wellness and Rehabilitation Services,
Great River Center for Rehabilitation.
The center offers:
Eight Weeks to Wellness - focuses on developing a healthy way of life Lifestyle
Assessment - helps identify and improve health risk factors Lifetime
Nutrition - provides skills and personal help to improve risk factors Medical
Fitness Assessment - provides a thorough checkup plus a personal fitness plan
Relaxation
Methods - teaches techniques to lessen pain for people with chronic conditions
Tobacco
Cessation - helps people quit smoking
Business
Health
Great River Business Health works with employers in the region
to improve their productivity, care for job-related injuries and return workers
to their pre-injury status.
"The companies we work with range from mom-and-pop
businesses to the largest employers in the area," said Rick Garrels, M.D., a board-certified
occupational medicine physician with Great River Business Health. "We want industry
to thrive here."
Back pain is a frequent workplace complaint. To help
these patients, Great River Business Health works closely with the health-care
professionals at Great River Spine Clinic.
"The increasing number of back
pain complaints were seeing is because there's an older population in the workforce,"
said Doug Foster, M.D., spine and orthopedic surgeon, Great River Spine Clinic.
"Most workplace back injuries are people who have underlying disk problems. As
sure as the sun rises, all disks deteriorate."
"We also see patients who
have injuries from repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome,
and other upper-extremity injuries," Dr. Garrels said. "We work closely with the
therapy staff at the Center for Rehabilitation to address these injuries and return
employees to the workplace as soon and as safely as possible."
Great River
Business Health also aims to prevent future injuries.
"We always want
the therapists to use a program that employees could then use to prevent injuries,"
Dr. Garrels said.
"The sports medicine approach is a good way to look
at prevention of workplace injuries," Dr. Foster said. "If people are in good
condition physically, they're less likely to have back problems - or back injuries.
Do a little warm-up before you start and use appropriate lifting techniques."
"Someone who's been injured can learn to do a task differently, so they won't
repeat the injury," Dr. Garrels said. "Our goal is to work with industry to limit
on-job injuries. That's lost production time, and it costs money for occupational
medicine."
Beyond treating injuries, Great River Business Health works
with employers to obtain information about what workers do on the job.
"A big issue in worker's compensation is defining that the exposure did occur
at work vs. a condition of aging or a non-work risk," Dr. Garrels said.
Besides employers and workers, Great River Business Health interacts with the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, state and federal departments of
transportation, insurance agencies and case managers. It does many pre-employment
physicals, periodic screening examinations and drug screens.
Many businesses
benefit from Great River Medical Center programs. So do many area athletes.
Athletic Performance
When athletes from this area want to improve
the way they play, they come to the High Performance Program at Great River Medical
Center.
"High performance is for anyone - or any group - that wants to
increase their performance in any area of sport," Dengler said.
"We have
high-school athletes who want to earn college scholarships, parents who want their
kids to train better and safer, and triathletes. Triathlon is the new golf. It's
a passion, like golf."
Chris Reed, M.S., ATC, CSCS, coordinator of the
High Performance Program, has worked with professional football, tennis and basketball
players. With degrees and certifications in athletic training, exercise physiology
and strength conditioning, he also is an authority in rehabilitation, injury prevention
and care.
"In the High Performance Program, our goal is to increase strength,
power, agility and quickness - to make athletes more competitive," Reed said.
"Each program is tailored to the athlete's needs."
"There's never been
such a program in the Burlington area," he added. "Some high-school kids are driving
to the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids or Quincy, Ill. My goal is to show them that
there's no longer the need to leave town for this service."
In 2006, Great
River Medical Center was designated USA Triathlon's first Certified Training Center,
thanks to a 10-year effort by George Van Hagen, P.T.A., physical therapy assistant,
Great River Center for Rehabilitation.
"When I came aboard - having a
background in racing, training and creating training plans - I saw an opportunity
here," Van Hagen said. "As a training center, we work with athletes from throughout
the Midwest who are interested in becoming competitive triathletes or those already
involved in the sport who want to get to a higher level. We also conduct coaching
clinics for those interested in training triathletes."
"And we have a
local triathlon club," Van Hagen added. "It's called 'Team BEAST' - Burlington
Endurance Athletic Sports Team."
Lyle Roberts, of Burlington, is a member
of Team BEAST who competes in Iron Man Triathlons in the 75-to-79 age group.
"I did my first triathlon in 1981. I was about 50," Roberts said. "I did the first
World Championship in Hawaii in 1992, and I did it again in 1993."
"Then
George and I got together in 1994, and he got me started training," Roberts continued.
"I did the World Championship 10 times, and I've been as high as second. I can't
quite get to No. 1, and that's why I come out to the Center for Rehabilitation
and get the right kind of training."
The high-performance athletic approach
is applied in other ways in the community.
Back pain is a frequent workplace complaint. To help these patients, Great River
Business Health works closely with the health-care professionals at Great River
Spine Clinic.
"The increasing number of back pain complaints were seeing
is because there's an older population in the workforce," said Doug Foster, M.D.,
spine and orthopedic surgeon, Great River Spine Clinic. "Most workplace back injuries
are people who have underlying disk problems. As sure as the sun rises, all disks
deteriorate."
"We also see patients who have injuries from repetitive
motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, and other upper-extremity injuries,"
Dr. Garrels said. "We work closely with the therapy staff at the Center for Rehabilitation
to address these injuries and return employees to the workplace as soon and as
safely as possible."
Great River Business Health also aims to prevent
future injuries.
"We always want the therapists to use a program that
employees could then use to prevent injuries," Dr. Garrels said.
"The
sports medicine approach is a good way to look at prevention of workplace injuries,"
Dr. Foster said. "If people are in good condition physically, they're less likely
to have back problems - or back injuries. Do a little warm-up before you start
and use appropriate lifting techniques."
"Someone who's been injured can
learn to do a task differently, so they won't repeat the injury," Dr. Garrels
said. "Our goal is to work with industry to limit on-job injuries. That's lost
production time, and it costs money for occupational medicine."
Beyond
treating injuries, Great River Business Health works with employers to obtain
information about what workers do on the job.
"A big issue in worker's
compensation is defining that the exposure did occur at work vs. a condition of
aging or a non-work risk," Dr. Garrels said.
Besides employers and workers,
Great River Business Health interacts with the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, state and federal departments of transportation, insurance agencies
and case managers. It does many pre-employment physicals, periodic screening examinations
and drug screens.
Many businesses benefit from Great River Medical Center
programs. So do many area athletes.
"The Return to Play program - which
was designed to help athletes return to their sport - also is helping with post-surgery
rehabilitation for non-athletes," Reed said. "After an athlete has surgery and
physical therapy to get back to a functional level, he or she will come to someone
like me to progress all the way back to their level of play in their sport. We're
applying the same idea to help injured 'weekend warriors' get back into their
golf or tennis game after surgery."
"The Firefighter Fitness program is
another example," Reed continued. "Firefighters have a competition that uses many
of their skills. We used to train them just for that. Now we're taking everybody
in the department through strength conditioning, muscle endurance, cardiovascular
training and flexibility to help with their job."
To accommodate all the
increased activity, the Great River Center for Rehabilitation is considering enlarging
existing exercise areas and adding a lap pool and an indoor track. And it continues
to expand programs to meet the area's growing needs.
PulseBeat
Times and Dates
In health care, technologies and treatments are advancing like never before. PulseBeat
helps you keep abreast of these advancements and shows you what's happening in
health care at Great River Medical Center. The next edition of PulseBeat
features 'life fitness' programs at the hospital. Watch PulseBeat at the
following times, dates and channels:
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, KHQA/CBS 6:30
p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, KYOU/FOX 11:30
a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 16, JTV Muscatine
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, WQAD/ABC
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1221 S. Gear Ave.
West Burlington,
IA 52655
(319) 768-1000 |
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