Physical therapy helps Bob Avery push for progress
March 14, 2022
Categories: Patient story
If you visit the Onaga Rehabilitation and Fitness Center on weekdays during the lunch hour, you’re likely to see Bob Avery hard at work on the weight machines. He travels to the Fitness Center several times a week from his home near Olsburg to do strengthening exercises, and he sees a physical therapist once a week. He’s come a long way since a harrowing accident nearly five years ago left him with a partial spinal cord injury.
Avery, a lifelong rancher who...
CHCS hires new physical therapist in St. Marys
November 1, 2021
Categories: News
CHCS is pleased to announce a new physical therapist in St. Marys.
Nathan Bailey is a recent graduate of Wichita State University and holds a doctorate in physical therapy. He grew up in Olathe and attended Johnson County Community College while working as an athletic trainer. He then finished his undergraduate career at Kansas State University, where he studied kinesiology.
Bailey looks forward to working at CHCS because of the “patient-first” mentality and the...
CHCS adds new physical therapist in Frankfort, Centralia
October 29, 2021
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System is pleased to welcome a new physical therapist to Frankfort and Centralia locations.
Nichole Miller is a native of the area, having grown up in Wetmore and Corning. She holds a bachelor of arts in exercise science from Ottawa University, where she played basketball for four years, and a doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Saint Mary. Miller said she has come full circle because she was born at the Onaga Hospital and was a CHCS patient through...
New treatment for back and neck pain available in Frankfort
February 10, 2021
Categories: News
The physical therapy team at the CHCS Frankfort Rehabilitation and Fitness Center is excited about a new treatment option for people with back or neck pain. A new traction unit recently arrived!
Many people suffer from back or neck pain that affects their ability to carry out activities in their daily life, and many of these patients could benefit from traction therapy. Traction is performed to improve spinal mobility and provide decompression by relaxing...
Physical therapy eases pain, promotes quality of life
October 9, 2020
Categories: Community health news
If you have surgery to replace a joint or repair a torn ligament, you probably know that physical therapy will be part of your rehabilitation process. But did you know that a physical therapist can also help manage chronic pain, encourage healthy aging, and diagnose and treat movement problems?
“Many people don’t realize the array of services physical therapy can provide,” said Andrea Lutz, doctor of physical therapy and Community HealthCare System Rehabilitation and...
Thankful for therapy and recovery
November 27, 2019
Categories: Patient story
Alisa Skruch works at CHCS, but a little more than a year and a half ago, she became a patient.
April 3, 2018 was a beautiful day, and Alisa was driving to pick up her mother. Then her right front tire dropped off the asphalt, the gravel on the side of the road gave way, and her vehicle was slung into the ditch. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m just going to have to ride it out,’” she said. She went through a fence and hit a concrete culvert, then her vehicle...
