By Breanna Callahan, Southwest Health Marketing Coordinator Have you ever been busy in the kitchen, trying to get dinner made, and you are constantly being interrupted. “What are you making? Hey, what’s that? What are we having for dinner? Can you lift me up so I can see what’s in there? Do I like that?” [read more]
By Speech Therapist, Jodi Knight, MS, CCC-SLP We don’t just treat lisps. Speech therapists treat many conditions in people of all ages, from infants to geriatrics. We treat brain injuries, neurological disorders, feeding/swallowing problems, voice, genetic disorders, speech, stuttering, cognition, social skills, and language, reading and writing disorders. Language does not mean English, French, or [read more]
By Occupational Therapist, Becky Fenn, OTR/L, CLT My elbow hurts! Tennis elbow? I don’t think so– I don’t play tennis! And I don’t golf! Tennis elbow is most common among adults between the ages of 35 and 55. Despite its name, you don’t need to be playing tennis (or even be athletic) to get tennis [read more]
By Breanna Callahan Did you know the average person spends over 10 hours per day staring at screens? By screens, I mean phones, computers, televisions, and tablets. You may notice after you have been working on your computer for a while or scrolling through your social media feed on your phone that your eyes get [read more]
During the month of March, Southwest Health Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has partnered with Steve’s Pizza Palace in Platteville for a dine-in fundraiser. We spoke with the Director of EMS at Southwest Health, Brian Allen, to learn more about this event and his job. How do people donate? To make a donation, simply join [read more]
By Jared Baroni, Southwest Health EMT My life before… I invested a substantial amount of time and had to make sacrifices, but now looking back I am glad I did. I cannot imagine having another career outside of emergency medicine. I began my career as an emergency responder after being constantly unfulfilled by a career [read more]
by Jaime Collins Life is often overwhelming. We were all busy people last year, and that’s probably only more true in 2019. And strange as it may seem, that is for me a big motivator to get involved. We are all human. We have limited time and energy. Yet we also each have needs to [read more]
by Shannon Regan, Physical Therapist and Lindsey Hefel, Physical Therapist Are you are a parent concerned about your child keeping up with their peers in sports, in gym class, or in general coordination, strength or balance deficits? Southwest Health offers pediatric evaluations by our pediatric physical therapists to [read more]
By Breanna Callahan, Marketing Coordinator at Southwest Health I really hadn’t considered meditating before. But as I looked at my goals for 2019, one of the phrases that came up for me was “self-love.” What does that mean? My first thoughts had to do with arrogance and not taking care of those around you. Being [read more]
By Speech-Language Pathologist Jodi Knight, MS, CCC-SLP Fact: it’s impossible to breathe and swallow at the same time. Please don’t even try. Unlike, chewing gum and walking, for example, breathing and swallowing share a common body part – the throat. While it does require finely tuned coordination to swallow in one moment and breathe the [read more]
