{"id":9768,"date":"2022-11-01T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:52:08","slug":"november-2022-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"November 2022 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\u201cWe Like Being Helpful\u201d<\/h1>\n

Healthy Living at the Park<\/h2>\n

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If you\u2019re like me, you keep getting surprised by life as a \u201csenior citizen,\u201d including finding that you\u2019ve stopped cringing at being called a senior citizen. Another of those surprises is finding that you find yourself gladly chatting about ailments and doctor visits, and you also find yourself reading articles with titles like \u201cFive Secrets of Healthy Knees.\u201d So when park executive Al LaCanne suggested that we devote some attention in our newsletter to health topics, we jumped at the chance. We\u2019re starting today with a profile of the woman who created the park\u2019s massage therapy program, and we\u2019re trying out a new feature called Doctors We Love.\u00a0The latter is a chance for park residents to pass along stories of exceptional performance by local medical practices. We\u2019ll be inviting your participation and if you find it useful, we\u2019ll make it a regular item in the newsletter. You\u2019ll see the first entry in this issue, but first, let\u2019s visit with Tara Holguin, founder of the massage therapy program\u2026<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Tara Holguin leads the massage therapy group at The Resort and Silveridge and we began by asking how that relationship started. \u201cAl LaCanne was my first client out of massage school and a big proponent of massage and its benefits\u201d she replied. \u201cI\u2019d met him through a former coworker, and Al suggested that I start doing massage at the park.\u201d Backing up, she added, \u201cI\u2019d been working at the\u00a0Arizona\u00a0Republic\u00a0newspaper in Marketing, but it started to get stressful, with layoffs and furloughs every week. I started looking for something more fulfilling, and massage had always been an interest of mine. So I moved to Minnesota and started massage school. My brother is a chiropractor in Minneapolis and the plan was that I\u2019d work in his office.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What happened to that plan? Love jumped in. And here we get to pause for a romantic story.<\/p>\n

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When Tara decided to go to Minnesota to get a fresh start, it wasn\u2019t just for a change in career paths, but also because she\u2019d split with her boyfriend in Phoenix. As she told us, \u201cSergio and I met through a friend while attending Arizona State University and started dating. We decided to break it off when I decided to move back to the Midwest but remained friends. Then, after I\u2019d been in Minnesota a while, Sergio flew up to visit and said, \u2018What do I have to do?\u2019 He even offered to move to Minnesota. I told him, \u2018I\u2019ve had one winter up here and that\u2019s enough.\u2019\u201d The two decided on a Vegas wedding, eventually had a daughter and son, and her husband Sergio became a teacher and baseball coach at Mountain Pointe High in Ahwatukee.<\/p>\n

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MASSAGE & HEALTH<\/h4>\n

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Back to health\u2026 When asked about the benefits of massage, Tara lit up, saying\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can help with muscle aches and nerve pain, chronic conditions, post-surgery recovery, with flexibility. What\u2019s most rewarding for us is when we have people come in and tell us they\u2019ve had pain for years and tried physical therapy and prescription drugs, and then we can help them, starting in the first session. We can usually tell in that first session if that person will see some relief from massage. Sometimes, with chronic pain, for example, we might not be able to fix the issue completely, but we can reduce the pain and that\u2019s super-helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for specifics of getting started, Tara said,<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe customize the massage to the person. We adjust the pressure \u2013 light, moderate or deep \u2013 and we can do 30 minutes or up to two hours. If someone isn\u2019t sure whether massage would help them, just give us a call and we\u2019re happy to recommend a direction to go in. We like being helpful. We\u2019re part of the community and we want to be beneficial, beyond massage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MASSAGE AT THE PARK<\/h4>\n

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The massage therapy program is now in its 11th year and well-developed at The Resort. \u201cWhen we started, we had one little room and we had no idea if anyone would want massage,\u201d Tara recounted. \u201cBut we were busy right off the bat. Over the years we\u2019ve seen hundreds and hundreds of park residents.\u201d If you haven\u2019t been to The Resort\u2019s massage area, it\u2019s next to Studio 55 and now has three massage rooms and an office.<\/p>\n

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As for Silveridge, the program is still evolving. Tara says, \u201cWe have a dedicated massage room at Silveridge, but when people come by it always looks like we\u2019re not there \u2013 when we\u2019re doing a massage the door is closed and the lights are turned down. But we look forward to hearing from and meeting residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even so, between the two parks, the program has been so successful that Tara is usually booked up months in advance. But another familiar face is also available to help: Cynthia Garcia, who\u2019s been working with Tara for six years. Tara also hopes to bring in a third therapist for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

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Whether at The Resort or Silveridge, if you want to get on the schedule or to get answers to questions, you have options:<\/p>\n

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Phone: 602-309-2482<\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0resorttherapy@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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DOCTORS WE LOVE: The eyes have it<\/h2>\n

By Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n

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As mentioned at the top, we think it might be helpful to pass along medical practitioners who have been particularly helpful to park residents. So we\u2019re hoping you\u2019ll send us your medical success stories. (Send them to me at\u00a0ddauten@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re going to kick off this feature with a couple of eye doctors. Or, to be more specific, eye surgeons.<\/p>\n

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First, we have the experience of Al LaCanne of the parks\u2019 management\/ownership group: \u201cI had glaucoma, with fluid building up in my eye and that creates pressure. I ended up with surgery at Barnet-Dulaney, which is right on Southern and Higley. My doctor was Dr. Funke and she was totally professional. The process involves drilling a hole in your eye and putting a straw in behind the eyeball to drain the excess fluid. Sounds horrible, but it worked and it saved my eyesight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I, too, know what it\u2019s like to face up to having an eyeball cut into. I\u2019d had cataract surgery, and while it made a major improvement in my vision, I wouldn\u2019t recommend the particular surgeon I had. However, a year or so later, I had a morning ophthalmology appointment to check a bit of blurriness in my left eye. The doctor announced I had a torn and detaching retina and needed surgery\u2026\u00a0that day. Having previously met and been impressed by a retinal specialist, Dr. Ronald Hobbs, I called his office and they instructed me to come over, right then. Dr. Hobbs confirmed the problem and cleared his afternoon calendar to meet me a surgery center. Unlike Al, I wasn\u2019t awake for the procedure, and I\u2019m glad about that because Dr. Hobbs made four incisions in my eyeball, used lasers to reattach the retina, and then put a bubble in the eyeball to hold everything in place while the eye healed. My vision is better now than decades ago, and Dr. Hobbs was not only patient with my questions but has an easygoing style and quick wit that have made the follow-up exams a pleasure.<\/p>\n

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