Improve Your Balance, Live Your Life!: Get back to Living... without Fear of Falling (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979961141)

I have been a physical therapist in Harnett County since 2002. I received my Bachelors of Physical Therapy degree from the University at Buffalo and Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Arcadia University. In 2008 I opened Total Body Therapy & Wellness in Lillington, NC. The goal of this was to provide exceptional "Big City Care" in a small-town community. In 2017 I had a new mission. I wanted to give back to the place has given me and my family unending love and support since my arrival to my new home in N.C. I wanted to make the people of Harnett County healthy and teach them they did not have to live in pain. My mission was to make a "Happier, Healthier Harnett". In doing this I wrote my first book Heal Your Body, Live Your Life! In this book, I teach you how to heal your lower back pain, and get it to go away for good, WITHOUT medicine, shots or surgery. I had such a great response to that book that the community demanded a 2nd book! I thought there was no better topic than to write about my passion. My therapeutic love... Balance! With my second book I wanted to teach the Senior Citizen community to recognize the signs of poor balance and help them seek out treatment BEFORE a fall occurs. Sure, physical therapy can help you after a fall... but wouldn't it be nice to avoid that fall in the first place With my second book, I bring my community Improve Your Balance, Live Your Life! I have been invited to speak on health/wellness issues in many areas of our community. In 2010 I received "Lillington Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Year" Award. I also served on Lillington Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors twice and was President of Lillington Chamber of Commerce in 2013. As a way to give back to my profession, I mentor future physical therapists and other health care providers from many local colleges. My passion is to improve the quality of life for those in my community and to bring quality health care to rural settings. Throughout my career, I have specialized in many areas of health and wellness and have developed my own custom programs to treat many afflictions including: Lower Back Pain, Balance/ Fall Prevention, Lymphedema, Vertigo, Foot Pain, Pediatrics, TMJ and Headaches/Migraines. Certified Dry Needling Functional Movement Taping Decongestive Therapist Functional Capacity Evaluator Fitter of Lymphedema Garments Neuro-Developmental Therapist of Children and Babies Neuro-Anatomy of Developmental Pathologies