Getting patients back to where they want to be, is our goal," says Jeff Cleveland, president of Clear Choice Health Care of Melbourne FL. Local resident Leon (Lee) Kirby doesn't know that Melbourne Terrace Rehabilitation Center is a five-star ranked facility and a Gold Seal Award organization recognized and merited by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. He just knows they're superior with the active and aging population. As a successful retired business owner, he launched one of the most prolific cash register and credit card scanning machine companies in the world. He sold his international company, now known as [...]

If you think your ears are just for hearing, it might surprise you to know that they aid in balance as well. Several structures in the inner ear, together called the vestibular system, relay messages to the brain that help you orient to your surroundings and aid in balance. "We know that falls impact our seniors," says Geoff Fraser, partner of Clear Choice Health Care. Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury and the most common cause of nonfatal trauma-related hospital admissions among older adults, according to the National Council on Aging. Here are some about how the body keeps [...]

"Every day we have the opportunity to get patients back to a better quality of life," says Jeff Cleveland, president of Clear Choice Health Care in Melbourne FL. "It's our pleasure to share the efforts made by the patient and staff to our community," says Cleveland. Local resident, Mark Crockett was expecting the normal sequence after a quadruple bypass open heart surgery. A couple of days in the ICU, a week of hospital stay, and then he'd be able to return to golf. Instead, his round trip from hospital to home had a few bumps in the road. He spent 45 [...]

Jeff Cleveland is President of Clear Choice Health Care in Melbourne FL More than 795,000 Americans experience a stroke annually. Although the occurrence of stroke has actually decreased significantly given that the 1960s, the strokes that do take place are just as serious. In fact, stroke is a leading reason for long-term impairment in the United States. Considering the above truth, study does supply good information. The largest U.S. research study of stroke rehab to date, shows 52 percent of the individuals considerably improved in strolling, daily feature, and also lifestyle, no matter exactly how extreme their problems. For the two-thirds [...]

"The COVID pandemic has been damaging to our community," states Geoff Fraser, partner of Clear Choice Health Care, "because seclusion leaves numerous senior citizens more prone." " We understand the research study," claims Fraser. Over the last 60 years, researches have actually shown that those lacking in social partnerships have higher wellness dangers than those connected with physical inactivity and obesity. And various other reputable threat aspects for death, such as smoking cigarettes and alcohol intake, are less unsafe than social isolation as well as solitude. " Isolation likewise developments dementia," claims Fraser. He includes that it wears away physical health [...]

Home is the place where you feel in control and correctly oriented in space and time. It is a predictable and secure location. More accidents occur in our houses than any other location. For individuals over age 65, house is the most likely place for an injury to happen from a fall. Falling is the single leading cause of home accidents in older adults. According to AARP, "Approximately one in 4 U.S. residents aged 65 years (or older) report falling each year." Twenty percent of those falls cause a serious injury, such as a fracture or head injury. And nearly 3 [...]

Jeff Cleveland understands a thing or two about treatment and meditation and how they can help you and if you're one of 92 million American adults that are coping with some kind of cardiovascular disease, you've probably heard your physician inform you to change your lifestyle. Decreasing high blood cholesterol, hypertension, and decreasing body weight can be the gold requirement of heart-healthy change. Now, professionals state, you can add meditation to that list of recommendations. According to a new evaluation from the American Heart Association (AHA), meditation has the possible to decrease some risk elements for cardiovascular disease. " When you [...]

If you want to feel less discomfort, take less medications, enhance your versatility, get stronger, and avoid joint replacement surgery in the future, then you're going to have to get moving, states Justus J. Fiechtner, MD, MPH, head of rheumatology at Michigan State University. A great method to begin moving is stretching, which is not something only athletes need to do prior to a competition. Fact is that performing simple stretches 2 or 3 times a week can dramatically help anyone boost flexibility, enhance balance, and ease the discomfort brought on by arthritis. " Many individuals feel that arthritis pain is [...]