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Heartland Community Church slated to package a 40 foot container of Stop Hunger Now 285,120 meals for the hungry

Stop Hunger Now provide food and other life-saving aid to countries around the world.

OLATHE, KS (PRWEB) December 18, 2014

Stop Hunger Now and Heartland Community Church are joining forces in the fight against hunger. More than 1,600 volunteers will package meals for the world’s hungry on December 21, 2014 at Heartland’s Olathe location, 12175 S Strang Line Rd, Olathe, KS 66062, from 9am to 6pm. Stop Hunger Now meal packaging events are a volunteer-based program that coordinates the streamlined packaging of highly nutritious dehydrated meals comprised of rice, soy, vegetables and 22 essential vitamins and minerals.

“We are gearing up for our second annual food packaging event with Stop Hunger Now. Our goal is to pack over 280,000 meals – which is an entire shipping freight of hope – and send it to the starving and suffering in Liberia,” says Dan Deeble, Lead Pastor of Heartland Community Church. “Packing meals is such a blast for us – kids can do it, students dig it, and grandmas kill it! Our only challenge is that we can’t provide enough slots for everyone that wants in on the fun!”

Around the world, nearly 805 million people lack adequate food. Stop Hunger Now operates meal packaging locations in 19 cities throughout the U.S. and four international locations in South Africa, Malaysia, the Philippines and Italy. More than 450,000 volunteers from corporations, churches, schools and civic organizations have packaged Stop Hunger Now meals.

Founded in 1998, Stop Hunger Now has delivered aid and disaster relief supplies in the form of food, medical supplies, clothing, school supplies and more to thousands of disaster victims and other hungry and vulnerable people in 65 countries.

This will be the second year Heartland Community Church has hosted the event. In 2013, the volunteers packaged 285,120 meals.

“What we want everyone to know is that hunger is solvable and is the common thread among the world’s most challenging issues. When hunger is targeted, you give leverage and hope to every other cause including poverty, disease, education and the welfare of women and children,” said Rod Brooks, President and CEO of Stop Hunger Now.

For more information contact Baylee DeLaurier, Kansas City Program Manager with Stop Hunger Now – (913) 871-8107 kansascity(at)stophungernow(dot)org

For more than 15 years, Stop Hunger Now has been creating a movement to end hunger with more than 140,000,000 meals distributed along with other aid to 65 countries. Driven by a mission to end hunger in our lifetime, the organization provides food and life-saving aid to the world’s most vulnerable and helps mobilize the necessary resources impacting millions of lives.

Stop Hunger Now meal packaging programs offer volunteers the opportunity to participate in a hands-on international hunger relief program and to become educated, engaged advocates for the world’s poor and hungry. In 2013, Stop Hunger Now packaged 38.6 million meals in the U.S. and an additional 3.3 million meals were packaged by international locations.

In its efforts to respond to emergency needs around the world Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes significant donations of in-kind aid. These donations are large quantities of food, medicines, medical supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis.

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OrthoCarolina Partners with HydroWorx Once Again to Offer Patients and Community Advanced Aquatic Therapy Options

HydroWorx InstaFit Pool at OrthoCarolina

Middletown, PA (PRWEB) April 16, 2014

At OrthoCarolina, aquatic therapy has become such a driving force that they sometimes have difficulty getting every patient in their pool. Unlike a traditional pool found at a health club, their particular unit is specially equipped with an underwater treadmill, massage hose capabilities, resistance therapy jets and underwater video. These advanced technologies allow their physical therapists and specialists to provide innovative healing, which was becoming somewhat of a double-edged sword before the company decided to invest in a second HydroWorx therapy pool which they installed at one of their facilities several miles away.

“We’ve had so much success, but it can be difficult to keep up with the demand,” admits Cheryl Bennett, PTA. “Having another therapy pool allows us to offer more for patients who want and need aquatic therapy. That’s a huge group, too; so many people need this kind of avenue to transition safely to land-based physical therapies. Without aquatic therapy, many patients would fall off the schedule or have tremendous difficulty getting over the initial ‘hump’ of therapy. With the pool, we can get them headed in the right direction from day one.”

Their second therapy pool is located at the north end of their city, a more convenient drive for former and current OrthoCarolina patients who do not wish to navigate significant traffic to enjoy their aquatic therapy and exercises. In the past, some OrthoCarolina patients tried to continue their progress in the pool at local gyms, but those pools’ cooler temperatures and more generalized programs led them to become frustrated with the experience. Having a warm-water HydroWorx pool located closer to their homes now enables them to enjoy all that aquatics has to offer.

Aquatic therapy isn’t new in terms of humankind. Civilizations around the globe have turned to the healing powers of water for millennia, from the public baths of Rome to the hot spring spas across northern Europe. However, with equipment like the HydroWorx pools, the natural properties of water such as buoyancy and hydrostatic pressure can be even more precisely and deliberately harnessed. This is a boon for those with foot and ankle problems, chronic pain, back problems, arthritis, MS and more.

Fitness advocates like Dr. Robert McBride, who practices with OrthoCarolina, appreciate being able to get patients on a fast-track aquatic therapy program very soon, even days after surgery. Whereas patients in similar situations would be forced to wait until they could comfortably handle land-based physical therapy, they are now able to reap the advantages because in the pool, their weight is countered by up to 80 percent.

Duane Albers, PT, Director of Physical and Hand Therapy, OrthoCarolina notes, “The pool continues to be very successful for our patient population and for many of our patients. It allows us to initiate therapy earlier following their injury which in turn helps to regain function sooner and pose less long term complications. Additionally, for those patients who are limited in WB or who may be challenged by land based exercises it allows us to make functional progressions in the pool to carry over to a land based program. The decision to add a second pool was highly supported by our physician leadership in order to provide a high level of care in multiple locations to meet the growing needs and convenience of our patients.”

The new therapy pool is much like the first that OrthoCarolina purchased from HydoWorx. Located on the first floor of the north end facility, it has become a veritable magnet for those seeking the proven benefits of regular aquatics. Its success is definitely in the numbers: Between its inception in November 2013 and March 2014, its use time by patients suffering from foot and ankle, low back pain, hip pain and knee pain has quadrupled and continues to grow.

Because OrthoCarolina is an official partner of University of North Carolina at Charlotte, their personnel see many UNCC students who require aquatic therapy. Yet their options span a wide range of ages and abilities. Explains Elizabeth Nichols, PT, ATC, “The programs are based upon each patient: what they did before, what their expectations are, etc. We have an adult population that ranges from 25 to 91 years old! One patient had pain in her left hip. She’s been going to the gym as part of the Silver Sneakers program, but her gym doesn’t have a pool. We’re now transitioning her to a pool program and she loves it. She was so shocked after the first two visits to OrthoCarolina that she didn’t have hip pain following her pool therapy!”

OrthoCarolina’s pools are not open to the general public at this point. Nonetheless, those in the Charlotte, North Carolina area who require physical therapy are encouraged to discuss the advantages of aquatic therapy treatments with their referring physicians.

About OrthoCarolina

As one of the nation’s leading orthopedic practices, OrthoCarolina is your destination for comprehensive orthopedic care. Since 1922 we’ve offered a continuum of care for patients across the Southeast. Our dedication to training and research coupled with our expertise in foot and ankle, hip and knee, shoulder and elbow, spine, sports medicine and pediatrics allow for the high quality care patients expect. Orthocarolina intends to build on the previous established relationship between Novant Health and Cleveland Clinic for our patients here in Charlotte.

OrthoCarolina. You. Improved.

Connect with OrthoCarolina at http://www.orthocarolina.com or on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

About HydroWorx

HydroWorx, based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, offers a wide range of underwater treadmill therapy pools, and peripheral products and services. Every day, more than 23,000 athletes and patients use HydroWorx technology to recover from injuries and health conditions.

More information about HydroWorx’s upcoming webinars, as well as archived webcasts from previous events, can be found by visiting http://www.hydroworx.com/events.

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Established Name Among Massachusetts Marijuana Community Now Extends Service Into Seekonk

(PRWEB) November 15, 2013

Canna Care Docs of Seekonk is an alternative healthcare facility and integrative medical clinic that serves as a primary certification center for varying locations throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Already boasting a slew of locations that are situated in the areas of Boston, South Boston, Stoughton, Worcester and now Seekonk, Canna Care Docs is solely responsible for blanketing Massachusetts’ alternative requests. Through the featuring of its extensive and valuable services to both inquiring and current Massachusetts medical marijuana patients, these locations are dedicated to providing only the most beneficial of services in regards to helping patients achieve a renewed sense of wellness and a Massachusetts medical marijuana card.

Originally destined to conquer all major alternative markets in the Boston-metropolitan area with a recently opened location on Newbury Street in downtown Boston, Canna Care Docs is now extending its services to the Bristol County region. This specific location in Seekonk features legitimate and individualized medical marijuana evaluations, medical marijuana certifications and medical marijuana recommendations – all completed by a licensed medical practitioner who is able to recommend cannabis as an alternative remedy.

Unlike many of your typical run-of-the-mill certification clinics, Canna Care Docs of Seekonk believesvery firmly in having a custom-tailored consultation with each and every patient in order to better determine what type of medical treatment is most appropriate. Although this location is a medical healthcare clinic, education is also practiced and preached in order to help patients increase cannabis awareness.

Located in the town of Seekonk, this area was established in 1812 and is made up of the western portion of the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Until the year 1862, the town of Seekonk also included what is now the city of East Providence, Rhode Island. The land in the western half of Seekonk was given to Rhode Island by the United States Supreme Court as part of a longstanding boundary dispute with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The first inhabitants of the town of Seekonk were Native Americans whom originated from the Wampanoag Tribe. The name “Wampanoag” translates to People of the Morning Light, and this name also refers to the geographical area of the tribe.

Although Canna Care Docs of Seekonk is located in Bristol County, this alternative clinic covers a substantial geographic area in order to help provide services for more Massachusetts medical marijuana patients.This Seekonk, Massachusetts location extends its unrivaled patient support services to not only the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts,but even to the residents of the surrounding towns of Rehoboth, Swansea, Attleboro, Somerset and South Seekonk. Please note that additionally, Canna Care Docs of Seekonk is registered to provide services to residents who reside in the state of Rhode Island.

If there is one thing that patients should take note of, it is that the Canna Care Docs name is very distinguished. Canna Care Docs of Seekonk serves as a security blanket as well as an education source to help patients obtain a Massachusetts medical marijuana card, renew a cannabis license and even help further the spread of compassion in the Bay State.

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