Physical Therapy

Fans were missing linebacker Ray Lewis at the end of the Ravens' last game. Lewis is out for the season after suffering a triceps tear, a rare injury with a long recovery time. Dr. Umasuthan Srikumaran, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said triceps tears are significant injuries for athletes. What is a triceps tear and how common is this injury? The triceps is the muscle on the back part of your arm. It originates from the shoulder blade and the upper portion of the arm, crosses the elbow joint, and inserts into the ulna, a bone in your forearm.

The Orioles raised some eyebrows when reliever Pedro Strop was seen taking grounders at shortstop and making throwing to first before Wednesday's game. Strop, who is on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain, was signed out of the Dominican Republic as a shortstop and was converted into a pitcher as a minor leaguer in the Colorado Rockies system. But the Orioles have no plans to return Strop to his original position. The drill, which Strop said was the idea of pitching coach Rick Adair, was performed in order for Strop to repeat his natural throwing motion.

Florence Peterson Kendall, a pioneer in the field of physical therapy as an advocate, author and academic, died Saturday at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Severna Park after battling cancer. She was 95. In 1947, Mrs. Kendall helped draft legislation that legally established the practice of physical therapy in Maryland. She received numerous accolades during her more than 70 years in the field, including being named Physical Therapist of the Century by the Maryland Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association in 2002.

Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a weight problem. The 5-foot-4 exercise physiology major hit her heaviest weight ever that fall in 2010, weighing in at 167 pounds. She felt bad about herself and didn't have a lot of energy. But most of all, she felt like a hypocrite as she studied for a career to help people stay fit. "If you're going to go out and teach a healthy lifestyle, you have to live it," DeWitt-Rickards remembers a professor saying that fall semester.

Cheryl Lynn Rimerman, a physical therapist, died of lung cancer March 6 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Eldersburg resident was 42. Born Cheryl Lynn Brager in Baltimore and raised in Pikesville, she was a 1982 graduate of Park School. She attended the University of Maryland, College Park and received a degree in physical therapy from what is now Baltimore City Community College. A physical therapy assistant, she worked at Greenspring Physical Therapy and Carroll Sports Rehabilitation until 2005.

While many office workers are finding themselves streamlined out of their jobs, there's one white-collar occupation that has seen a steady increase in demand for its hands-on skills: physical therapy. With an ever-increasing population in need of rehabilitation services, projections are for demand to continue to grow.In a recent national survey of health-care executive recruiters by Dunhill Personnel System Inc., 43 percent of the respondents said occupational and physical therapy jobs would increase in coming years.

The Rev. Mark Schlichter may have left the pulpit, but he didn't leave the Christian ministry altogether.Schlichter, who had preachedto congregations from three churches since 1983, left last October to pursue his original career -- physical therapy.His decision came after members of his three-church parish decided they needed individual pastors.Schlichter, who served as pastorfor St. Mark's United Church of Christ in Snydersburg, Lazarus UCC in Lineboro and Trinity UCC in Manchester said, "I had served as an ordained minister of the parish for eight years and I oversaw the parish while the dissolution took place."

A Southwest Baltimore woman has won a $733,329 jury award from St. Agnes Hospital because of an injury she suffered while undergoing physical therapy after an operation to repair ligament damage to her right knee.A Baltimore Circuit Court jury returned the verdict last week in favor of Marsha Shelburne, 32, after a three-week trial before Judge John Carroll Byrnes.The jury awarded Shelburne $80,000 for medical expenses, $139,261 for past and future lost wages, $200,000 for pain and suffering, and $314,068 to pay for housework she no longer can do, court records show.

Spring is a heavy season for physical therapists. Walk into any physical therapy facility at any time of day, and you'll see evidence of it.In the morning there's the retiree getting friction massage on his tennis arm for the tendinitis that flared up after a recent match. In the afternoon, you'll see the high school lacrosse player soaking his sprained ankle in an ice bath. Late in the day, the sedentary office worker will arrive for heat treatments after wrenching her back turning over the garden on the first sunny weekend of the season.

Spring is a heavy season for physical therapists. Walk into any physical therapy facility at any time of day, and you'll see evidence of it.In the morning there's the retiree getting friction massage on his tennis arm for the tendinitis that flared up after a recent match. In the afternoon, you'll see the high school lacrosse player soaking his sprained ankle in an ice bath. Late in the day, the sedentary office worker will arrive for heat treatments after wrenching her back turning over the garden on the first sunny weekend of the season.

Mobility, stability and agility are the targets inside the new Kinetics System room at Colosseum Gym in Columbia. Everyone from power-lifters to post-rehab patients can work with trainers to reach their goals, according to trainer Vic Selvaggi. Added in summer 2012 as part of a reconfiguration and expansion of the gym, the Kinetics System room houses specialized pneumatic equipment that trainers use to assess clients' abilities and form before developing a fitness regimen. The goal is to imporve form and functional movement before moving on to weight training, or as Selvaggi puts it, "movement before muscles.

Aberdeen High School senior Jimmia McCluskey signed her letter of intent last week to attend and run track at Temple University in Philadelphia. McCluskey will major in physical therapy. Pictured in the front row from left are Tonia McCluskey (mother), Jimmia McCluskey, Jimmie McCluskey (father) and in the back row from left are Coach John Mobley, Athletic Director Tim Lindecamp and Coach Kyree Edwards.

Towson Rehabilitation Center LLC, a Towson physical, occupational and speech therapy provider, must restore more than $29,000 in interest to the company's 401(k) retirement plan, according to a consent judgment obtained in federal court by the U.S. Labor Department. In a lawsuit filed last January, the labor department alleged that since January 2006, Towson Rehabilitation and CEO Howard Neels failed to pay employee contributions to the plan, paid some employee contributions late without interest and failed to segregate the plan's assets from the company's assets.

ACL tears have taken out so many University of Maryland football players, you'd think the injury is contagious. Four Terps football players have suffered from the knee injuries this season. Dr. Michael E Trice, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Cartilage Restoration Center at Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, says ACL tears aren't that uncommon in athletes. What is an ACL injury? An ACL injury is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, the primary stabilizer of the knee.

Fans were missing linebacker Ray Lewis at the end of the Ravens' last game. Lewis is out for the season after suffering a triceps tear, a rare injury with a long recovery time. Dr. Umasuthan Srikumaran, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said triceps tears are significant injuries for athletes. What is a triceps tear and how common is this injury? The triceps is the muscle on the back part of your arm. It originates from the shoulder blade and the upper portion of the arm, crosses the elbow joint, and inserts into the ulna, a bone in your forearm.

Here it is, June 1, and there are scheduled events galore! We were invited to the Senior Center to talk to the Golden Age Club about Aberdeen, and it was a real pleasure to get back to talk to such a large gathering of folks interested in the community around them. The gift pen with our name and the Aberdeen Golden Age Club inscribed will be very useful, and we thank them so much. The staff also provided us with their June list of events that is filled with exciting happenings.

Faced with a choice, Pat Butz decided 21 months ago not to take life sitting down.was extraordinarily difficult for me to walk," says the 47-year-old Monkton resident, whose multiple sclerosis had progressed to the point that she was almost ready for a wheelchair.Instead, she opted for therapy and exercise in a heated pool, where she is freed of gravity's drag by the buoyancy of the water and loosened up by its warmth. These days, thanks to her three-times-a-week water workout, she is able to do strength training at the gym as well.

A Baltimore woman pleaded guilty yesterday to running an elaborate fraud scheme at a physical therapy clinic that federal prosecutors say raked in more than $1.5 million and enabled her to buy luxury cars and a pricey South Florida condominium.Deborah S. Kolodner, 42, stole money by submitting fraudulent insurance claims for physical therapy never provided to patients at Industrial Medical and Physical Therapy, her St. Paul Place clinic, according to her plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

Forty-four years later, what sticks in Wes Unseld's mind is a reception he got on his arrival in Baltimore as the Bullets' top pick in the 1968 NBA draft. Welcoming, it was not. "I was watching TV in my room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, and this sportscaster, Charley Eckman, came on. He was screaming and hollering that the Bullets were idiots for drafting a slow, 6-foot-7 center from Louisville," Unseld recalled. "Well, Charlie was wrong. I was 6-foot-6. " Then Unseld, the second player picked in the draft, stepped onto the basketball court and took the skeptics to task.

Their competitive natures led to lots of initial break-ups in college, but now playing sports together is a way to bond. Wedding date: May 12, 2012 Her story: Beth Gampel, 28, grew up in Columbia and is an occupational therapist at Genesis Healthcare. Her father, Howard Gampel, is a pharmacist at Food Lion in Odenton. Her mother, Joanne Gampel, is a retired federal social science analyst. His story: Adam Abell, 27, grew up in Pikesville and Owings Mills and is senior territory sales manager for Healthpoint Biotherapeudics.