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- Independence through Physical Therapy (ITPT)
Our specially trained, highly skilled physical therapists use both Western and Eastern approaches to treatment. They draw on years of experience as well as an ever-expanding body of treatment strategies to help you:
Reduce pain
Improve your joints’ range of movement
Improve your balance and reduce the risk of falls
Improve your overall strength and quality of life
Avoid medication and/or surgery
Contact us: 360-683-6101
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- Education
- Education for Physical Therapy by Loraine Lovejoy-Evans - ITPTclinic.com - Independence through Physical Therapy (ITPT)
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- Lectures
- Lectures from Loraine Lovejoy-Evans on Physical Therapy Treatments
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- Video
- Video on Knee Pain and Managing Swelling - Loraine Lovejoy-Evans presenting
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- Handouts
- Handouts from Loraine Lovejoy-Evans on Physical Therapy Treatments
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- Fibrosis
- Fibrosis is the hard/thickening of the skin that occurs when the lymphatic system gets
sluggish or injured and fails. This is because the lymphatic system typically moves the
protein molecules back to the heart and when that job is not performed the protein
molecules cause scar tissue to develop in the region. They are stuck-just like refried beans
get hard like rocks when left out on a plate. This protein party is like a bunch of teenagers
hanging out on your couch eating Doritos and making a mess of the place, not helping to
clean up after themselves.
- www.spidergoods.com/Fibrosis.html
- Energy Tokens
- Energy Tokens: Spend wisely to avoid injury and pain
Most individuals are consistent about regularly scheduled maintenance on their cars. If
people ran their cars the way they run their bodies the cars would all be by the side of the
road with smoke billowing out. Commonly we blame genetics when we find that we have the same physical
pain our parents and our children experience. Perhaps we should consider behavior first. Many people
ignore the warning signs of their body and push beyond-following the examples set by their parents.
Unfortunately this is how we are filling nursing homes across our country. These strategies listed will help
prevent injury to your body so you can enjoy a pain-free life that should require far fewer visits to the human
body mechanics and be able to stay in your own home forever.
- www.spidergoods.com/Energy-Tokens.html
- Healing Hints
- How Your Body Heals Loraine Lovejoy-Evans, MPT, DPT
Healing and continuing to live a normal life are mutually exclusive activities. You must choose: Put everyday life on hold and heal; or decide not to heal, and continue normal activities ¡V knowing that your symptoms will become long-term or chronic problems. Any trauma -- even a controlled trauma like surgery ¡V creates a natural cascade of inflammation (swelling) as part of your body¡¦s natural healing process. Learning how the body¡¦s smallest repair cells work can help you understand the value of adequate healing.
- www.spidergoods.com/Healing-Hints.html
- Lymphedema Handout
- Lymphedema Loraine Lovejoy-Evans, MPT , DPT
(Pronounced: "lim-fe-de-ma", but in Europe “lim-feed-emma”:). LYMPHEDEMA is the swelling and soft tissue changes that occur in the area of the body where injury has occurred to the lymphatic system. LYMPH=clear fluid that carries proteins and other materials back to the heart through the lymphatic system. EDEMA=swelling.
- www.spidergoods.com/Lymphedema-Handout.html
- Lymph Drainage
- MANUAL LYMPH DRAINAGE - CHEST/ARM SWELLING
Every time you use the bathroom, use soap in the shower, dry off with towel,
or lotion the skin-do so in this pattern. Use only enough pressure to wrinkle the skin.
Avoid any implants such as a Port-stay 1 hand breadth away.
Perform often enough to keep any symptoms such as discomfort or burning controlled.
Use this full protocol at least 1 time in the morning and the abbreviated version 3 more times.
- www.spidergoods.com/Lymph-Drainage.html
- MLD Short
- Abbreviated MLD for Arms
Perform 4 times a day
Each time you use the Bathroom
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- Prevent Lymphedema
- Preventing Lymphedema Following Cancer Treatments
Lymphedema can be a side effect of treatments for cancer, such as lymph node dissection and radiation. However, individuals can develop lymphedema from several causes not relating to cancer. Lymphedema is the abnormal accumulation of protein-rich edema or swelling, that can develop in the arm or the trunk on the side of axillary lymph node removal.
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- Preventing Lymphedema
- What is the Lymph in Lymphedema?
The lymphatic collecting vessels are tiny tubes that carry fluid from all parts of the body back to the heart. The little lymphatic collecting vessels just under the skin carry the lymph fluid to bigger collecting vessels like tributaries carrying water from creeks and eventually into bigger rivers. The lymph fluid contains water, proteins, cancer cells and bacteria. The lymph’s primary job is to carry protein molecules back to the heart that are too big to fit back into the veins. The fluid is transported through a series of connected vessels flowing to the lymph nodes in the drainage basin of that area (the armpit for the chest and arm). Once in the nodes, the floaty bits get smashed up like a garbage disposal and they are filtered out. The lymph nodes are like having Cookie Monster inside that particularly loves to feast on the nasty bits like bacteria.
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- Snow Angel
- Snow Angel Stretch Instructions - ITPT Clinic - Loraine LoveJoy-Evans
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- Contact Us
- Contact Us Information
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- Directions
- Directions to the Clinic
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- Disclaimer
- Medical Disclaimer for the Website
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- Forms
- Various Forms for the Clinic
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- Paying
- Payment arrangements
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- Donations
- Donations toward ITPTClinc
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- Privacy Notice
- Website Privacy Policy
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- About Us
- Individual Members of the Staff
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- Patient Testimonials
- Testimonials of patients with different health problems.
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- Lymphedema
- Lymphedema, scoliosis and pain
- Testimonial from Jan
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- Hip Pain
- Hip Pain - Testimonial
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- Leg Pain
- Leg Pain - Testimonial from Dewy Ehling
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- Hip Replacement Surgery
- Hip Replacement Surgery - Testimonial from Maureen
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- Right Leg Pain
- Right Leg Pain - Testimonial from Eldon Baker
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- Pain
- Pain - Testimonial from T.R.
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- Leg Cramps
- Compression Socks - Testimonial from Sandra
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- Car Wrecks & Cancer
- Car Wrecks & Cancer - Testimonial from Tani
- www.spidergoods.com/Car-Wrecks-&-Cancer.html
- Fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia - Testimonial from Michelle
- www.spidergoods.com/Fibromyalgia.html
- Car Accidents
- My history of trauma begins at the tender young age of four, when I was showing off for the boy scouts gathered at my family’s home. Walking along the top of the couch, I slipped, fell, and split my head open just above the eye, where I had hit the edge of the coffee table. I continued this rough-and-tumble lifestyle by riding bikes, jumping on our trampoline, and generally doing any sport I could. At 13 years of age, my lower leg was fractured in a head-on collision, literally. I was walking around the edge of an inner-tube “track” after falling off during my turn. The driver of the snowmobile, unaware that I was walking around in the dark, opened the throttle wide for his son, who was the next rider. When the inner-tube slid off the track, his son’s head connected directly with my tibia, just below the knee. (His son had a concussion.) The first physician to read the X-ray misinterpreted the fracture to be a sprain and instructed me to walk on the leg. I remained with the rest of the church youth group in the mountain cabin on Granby Lake above Colorado Springs. This experience was likely my introduction to the field of study that would later be the subject of my bachelor’s degree, Music Therapy. In order to get to the bathroom I sang “Ticket to Ride” by The Carpenters. The pain was more intense than anything I have recalled before or since that time. When the weekend of sheer misery was finally over, I returned home to crutches that my family had in the garage. These wonderful devices allowed me to move with significantly less pain.
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