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─Photo by Chris Lundy Michael Signorile (left) gets sworn in by Mayor Carmen Amato. The new councilman’s wife, Debbie, is holding the Bible.

By Chris Lundy BER K ELEY Michael Signorile was swor n in as the newest member of the Township Council. It may be his first time as a municipal official, but he is no stranger to serving people in

an elected capacity.

As the president of Holiday City South, he said he is usually called upon to help people in the communit y. The council position will be the same thing on a larger scale. He will be

representing Ward 3, which includes neighborhoods like Holiday City South, Silver Ridge Park, and Manitou Park.

During his first Township Council meeting, on Aug. 24, he was sworn in by Mayor Car-

men Amato. His wife, Debbie, held the Bible. He had a group of people cheering for him in the audience.

“The mayor asked me to jump in and I said yes,” he said during the meeting.

(Sworn - See Page 4)

Remembering The Shark Attacks Of 1916

By Patricia A. Miller BEACH HAVEN - It was a very hot and humid day on July 1, 1916 in Beach Haven, much like it probably was up and down the entire Jersey shore.

It was so uncomfortable that Philadelphian

Charles Epting VanSant, 25, a graduate of the 1914 class of the University of Pennsylvania, couldn’t wait to get into the ocean water.

He was traveling with his physician father and two sisters on a train to escape the city heat.

Charles headed for the Beach Haven bathing beach as soon as they ar-

rived and began playing with a dog.

But the dog didn’t want to go out too far, so Charles ended up by himself. Shortly after, residents and visitor heard what they thought was Charles still playing with the dog.

But he wasn’t playing.

He was being bitten by what appeared to be a

shark. He began shrieking close to shore. By time he was moved to the beach, he was nearly unconscious, according to Richard D. Fernicola’s book “Twelve Days of Terror,” a frightening account of five shark attacks in July 1916 along the Jersey Shore that left four men dead and one teenager injured.

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VanSant was one of the ones who died. He lost portions of both his legs and bled to death at the Engleside Hotel in Beach Haven. His death was the first of four. Four men died over the next few days at the Jersey Shore, apparently because of shark attacks.

Spring Lake was the

(Shark - See Page 13)

By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – At a recent Township Council meeting, Councilwoman Sophia Gingrich showed a primary ballot that had been delivered to a house in town for a woman who had died 20 years ago.

It was issues like this that made the governing body pass a resolution urging the governor to allow in-person voting.

During Gov. Phil Murphy’s Aug. 14 coronavirus press conference, he said the Nov. 3 election will be done “overwhelmingly” by mail.

Fortunately, the resident who brought the ballot to Gingrich’s attention was honest, but she said the vote could have been fraudulently sent in.

“Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you want it to be fair. The only way for it to be fair is in person,” she said. “There are many errors that are going to be made, and voting in person stops all that.”

Lt. Col. Michael Tier, who was involved in the JROTC at Central Regional High School, was in the audience during the most recent (Voting - See Page 4)

Homestead, Senior Freeze To Be Funded Again

By Chris Lundy TRENTON – In his revised budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy restored funding for two key programs that help seniors and homeowners make ends meet.

The Senior Freeze program locks in senior property owners at a fixed amount. For example, let’s say the senior has to pay $1,000 in taxes. The program locks in the taxes at that rate. Then, when their taxes go up to $1,050, the senior pays $1,050 and then the state reimburses the senior that $50.

The Homestead Rebate Benefit program also provides property tax relief to eligible homeowners.

(Freeze - See Page 9)

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Amato talked him up, filling in the blanks since Signorile seemed too humble to talk about himself.

“He’s a little modest,” Amato said.

“He has a banking background. He has law enforcement background.

He is well respected and well-liked in his community.”

A former police officer, he also has experience investigating white collar crime.

After the meeting, in a phone call with The Berkeley Times, Signorile spoke more about how he intends to serve the town.

“People got to step up to the plate,” he said about the issues going on in the country. Whatever difference they can make, they have to find a way to make things better.

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He said that he has voted here for 40 years.

He received a letter saying his vote in the primary election was not counted because his signature was questioned.

“Probably, a lot of people got that letter,” he said. There are likely more people whose votes were uncounted.

He wants to vote in person as well. If his signature had been questioned in person, he could show other forms of identification or in some way solve the problem immediately.

Mayor Carmen Amato said he also received calls from residents who received ballots incorrectly.

“Residents are fearful of fraud,” he said. “It undermines the public’s faith in the election.”

The Ocean County Board of Elections is very competent, the mayor said. However, the primary election in July took them two weeks longer to count and it cost a lot more. The cost in time and money would be multiplied in a general election.

As of press time, the plan for November is for every municipality in New Jersey to have at least one polling location open. Each county should have half of the polling places available. You can drop off your ballot to a poll worker.

He said there will be a learning curve in the beginning, but “I think I got some good teachers there,” meaning the other council members.

He takes the spot on the council originally held by Judy Noonan, who had been on it for 10 years. Noonan resigned in August and moved to Manchester. She parted ways with a letter thanking the township employees who do the work of the town but mentioning “unprincipled political

decisions” of the governing body that she could no longer abide by – and backlash she said she received if she went against the grain. She did not go into further detail or single out anyone by name.

Since Noonan is a Republican, the township’s Republican party chose her replacement. The rest of the governing body is also Republican.

Signorile will have to run in the Nov. 3 election. If he wins, he will fulfill the rest of Noonan’s term, which ends Dec. 31, 2021.

There will be more voting dropboxes available to the public this election season.

Voting by mail will be the default. If you choose to vote in person, it will be with a provisional ballot. This means that a poll worker has to determine if you voted by mail as well, to make sure you didn’t vote twice.

A system will be available on Sept. 4 allowing people to register to vote online, the governor said said.

The primary election in July was a test to see how the state would do in November, Murphy said. It wound up with the second highest voter turnout in state history for primaries.

There will be no sample ballots. The ballots you receive in the mail are the ones to use, he said. They should all be sent to you by Oct. 5.

In order for your vote to count, it must be postmarked by Nov. 3, election day. It must be received no later than Nov. 10. If for some reason it did not get postmarked, it must be received by 8 p.m. on Nov. 5.

“Making it easier to vote doesn’t favor one particular party, but it does favor Democracy,” he said.

Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington had primarily vote-by-mail systems even before the pandemic.

He said there have been ongoing issues with the United States Postal Service which has been “turned into a political football by those who don’t favor political access.”

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E DITORIAL COVID-19: What’s The Correct Amount Of Worry?

Looking at the social media feeds of my friends and family, it seems most people are falling into one of two camps: panicking over COVID-19 or thinking it’s no big deal.

Where’s the middle ground? What’s the appropriate amount of panic?

Walking into grocery stores without a mask to prove how tough you are ain’t it. Stockpiling toilet paper and never leaving the house ain’t it, either.

It has to do with where people get their information. There are some news sources that keep telling people the world is going to end. There are other news sources that are telling people that this will go away on its own.

If you listen to the information coming from health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you get a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Real medical experts are giving the same advice: practice social distancing, wear face coverings, do everything you can to protect the most vulnerable among us. I say “real medical experts” because there are always some quacks. Also, there are always talking heads trying to politicize everything.

Be smart, and be considerate of others. That’s all you really have to do.

I’ll say it again: Be smart, and be considerate of others. You have no idea if the healthy-looking person you’re coughing near has an immune disorder, or is taking care of an elderly relative at home. So follow the experts’ guidelines.

My first job as a reporter was for Worrall Community Newspapers. I wrote for two of their papers: The Independent Press of Bloomfield and the creatively-named Glen Ridge Pa-

per. This was in 1999, when the West Nile virus first started hitting the states. At the time, we had to refer to it as WNL, or West Nile-like virus, because it hadn’t been confirmed yet that it had traveled here from Africa.

Every week, we published the dead bird counts. The virus lived in birds, mostly crows, and then mosquitoes carried it to humans. Every week, we’d have to update the public about how many dead birds had been found, and how many had tested positive for WNL. It’s kind of like the beginning of the pandemic, when each county started reporting positive cases.

Essex County was where West Nile first touched down in New Jersey, probably because of Newark airport, so our little towns suddenly were very important in this global story.

I remember sitting down with the head of the health department. We had never met before, so he didn’t trust me yet. He was very wary of the kind of story I was going to write. Instead of the interview starting with me asking him a question, he started by asking me one.

He wanted to know what my article was going to be.

I told him, very honestly, that I wanted to inform the public without making them panic. The health director visibly relaxed and we had a half hour discussion about the realities of the disease and what people can do to protect themselves.

That’s the tactic that journalists should be taking now – and should have been taking from the beginning: letting people know that there is a very real threat out there, but with kindness and intelligence we can mitigate it.

Chris Lundy News Editor

Trump Golfs While Rome Burns

Have you heard the story of how Nero fiddled while Rome burned? It shows how powerful people don’t care about the problems the rest of us have. They will play fiddle while the rest of us suffer.

According to official statistics, there have been 125 trips to golf courses since Trump’s inauguration. That means he’s been golfing roughly one in ten days, or ten percent, of the entire time that he’s been in office.

However, these are just the ones that the White House lets us know about.

There are ones where he is seen going to one of his golf courses, but the White House doesn’t tell us about it. People physically see him golfing, but he lies and says he wasn’t.

If you add up all of these times, it’s more than twice that. There are web statistics that put him at as many as 366 visits. According to Fox News, he has played 275 rounds of golf since he became president. Some other news sources have it as high as 366. That’s an entire year of golf. One-fourth of his entire term. You can’t tell me that these are all business trips and that he’s doing the work of the American people on them.

He says he plays “very fast.” Even the fastest golfer will take half a day to do it.

Letters To The Editor Doesn’t he have better Why Not Vote things to do?

Instead of organizing a national response plan to coronavirus, he golfs.

Instead of protecting our military, he golfs.

Instead of fixing the economy, he golfs.

Instead of trying to bring us together, he golfs.

It’s not just the time he’s wasted. It’s our money he’s wasted. According to White House figures, the amount of money it costs to fly the president around with his entourage and security detail in Air Force One costs $514,000 per hour of flight time. What would you do with $514,000? I’m sure you’d spend it better than our president.

It’s estimated that our president has cost us $136 million on golf trips. I could certainly spend $136 million some other way.

And guess how much of that wound up back in his pockets? Trump loves to go to his own properties, requiring the secret service to rent rooms. How much of that $136 million – our $136 million – wound up back in his own pocket?

By the way, Obama, according to published reports, golfed 300 times in the eight years he was in office.

Maybe our next president should be one that plays mini-golf instead.

John Cabot Toms River

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In Person?

I don’t understand why they can’t allow us to vote in the November General Election in person, inside a voting booth.

I mean, we are all allowed to go to grocery stores, libraries, retail shops. What gives? If they are worried about surfaces, that excuse doesn’t really work as you can go into the supermarket and touch everything.

Here’s an idea. Why don’t they just set up the damn voting machines inside Walmart or Costco? People are going in and out all of the time. Why can’t we vote in person without a paper ballot? This whole vote by mail thing makes no sense.

I’m sure there are polling workers willing to sit there with masks on to make sure we can all exercise our God-given rights. This whole plan is insane and spits on the graves of the men and women in uniform who made it possible for us to be free. Freedom is really getting dumped on and I’m fed up.

Jerry Thomas Brick

Murphy Sued Over Vote

By Mail I am pleased to announce that our NJGOP team has joined forces with Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and the Republican National Committee to stand up for the rights of all New Jersey voters by filing a lawsuit again Governor Murphy’s unconstitutional vote by mail scheme.

Governor Phil Murphy issued yet another unconstitutional executive order, this time establishing an all vote by mail election scheme that violates the basic rights of New Jersey citizens.

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis and July’s primary election, one thing became very clear: Governor Murphy is failing New Jersey families and businesses.

Doug Steinhardt Chairman NJ GOP

Is This Voter Fraud?

In July a Voter Registration Application in my maiden name arrived at my parents’ home in Pennsylvania. I have not lived there or used my maiden name in over 47 years.

After my family mailed me the form, I Googled the company listed in the return address and then made a call to them. Surprisingly, this organization listed with a Harrisburg, PA address was actually in Washington, D.C. None of the lower level employees I spoke to could shed light on how my information was collected. Unfortunately, the Program Manager who was supposed to call me back never did.

A call to the Voter Registration Office of my hometown county in PA, confirmed that my maiden name and address were NOT in their files. It was the office worker’s comment about my situation that stunned me. She said in effect she was not surprised “with all the fraud going on.”

The Voter Registration Application I was sent only required my name, address, date of birth, race or ethnicity (I question the relevance of this), last four digits of my social security number, submission date and to either “sign the form with a signature or a mark.” If I was an unscrupulous person, I could have easily submitted all the information in my maiden name with the old address and signed with an “X.” Once a voter registration card arrived, I could apply for a mailin ballot in PA and continue voting in person in NJ during the same presidential election under two different names.

This would be voter fraud pure and simple. Would I ever be caught? Could anyone prove I had done this since the form was signed with an “X”?

We must have a federal law: Photo ID must be presented to vote in person or a photo copy of photo ID must be submitted with a mail-in ballot request.

Barbara Kochie Brick

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$1.4M In Funding Will Support NJ Firefighters, First Responders Capitol Comments Senator Cory Booker

TRENTON - U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced a combined $1,431,304.39 to ensure New Jersey’s local fire departments and EMS squads are properly equipped and staffed to protect the communities they serve, and to purchase additional protective gear and supplies needed to combat COVID-19.

“New Jersey’s first responders are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 fight. They risk their lives each and every day to protect us and deserve all the support they can get,” said Sen. Menendez. “This important funding will help ensure our firefighters and EMS squads have the equipment, personal protective gear and personnel they need to both protect themselves and the residents and communities they serve.”

“Our firefighters and first responders always step in for our communities when they are needed - even, and especially, during a pandemic. New Jersey’s firefighters must have the resources they need to protect themselves and our communities,” said Sen. Booker.

“This funding will help New Jersey departments increase safety and operational efficiency, hire, recruit, and retain volunteer firefighters and strengthen the quality of our state’s emergency services.”

The following departments have received Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to hire or retain firefighters in an effort to increase the number of frontline firefighters, enhance the ability of departments to attain and maintain 24-hour staffing, and assure that their communities

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Continued From Page 1 For most homeowners, the benefit is distributed to their municipality in the form of a credit, which reduces their property taxes.

However, the state’s proposed supplemental budget had a significant reduction in both of these programs.

The reason that the state gave for cutting these two programs was that the state lost money due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The governor had made this announcement on Aug. 25. At the Aug. 24 Berkeley Township Council meeting, the governing body repeated their request to the governor to reinstate the Homestead Rebate and Senior Freeze funding.

They had made their first request during the summer.

“We have to continue to keep pressure on the state,” Mayor Carmen Amato said.

The township’s resolutions said that it is precisely because of the pandemic that the state shouldn’t cut funding to residents. Residents are suffering economic hardships due to the virus as well and township officials said Trenton shouldn’t balance its budget on the backs of residents who are already hurting.

According to the resolution, Berkeley has 8,700 residents who qualify for Homestead – the most of any municipality in the state.

Across the county, 60,906 qualified for the program, which provided them an average of $221.

The Ocean County Freeholders had also urged the governor to fully fund these programs.

With more than 173,000 seniors in Ocean County, the loss of this money could be disastrous, said Freeholder Director Joseph Vicari.

“When your monthly income is no more than $1,400 from Social Security, taking away these programs will only increase the severe financial hardship already experienced by this vulnerable population,” Vicari said.

The 9th District legislators – Senator Christopher Connnors, Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove (R-9th) - started an online petition urging the governor not to cut these two programs. It can be found here: senatenj.com/petitions/ propertytaxrelief/. As of press time, it had been signed 5,656 times.

The Berkeley Times, August 29, 2020, Page 9 governor’s spending plan: Imposing the millionaire’s tax on all income above $1 million; • Permanently incorporating the 2.5 percent corporation surcharge; • Restoring the sales tax on limousines; • Removing the tax cap on boats; • Applying a 5 percent surcharge to high-income individuals with federally Qualified Business Income (QBI) who have benefited from a new deduction for pass-through enti-

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“This budget proposal is not simply about getting New Jersey back to where it used to

be, but moving forward to where we need to be by building a new economy that grows our middle class and works for every single family, while asking the wealthiest among us to pay their fair share in taxes,” said Governor Murphy.

Other monies include $60 million for clean drinking water, $4.9 billion for the state pension system, and $2.2 billion in surplus.

The state’s spending was cut by $1.25 billion.

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By Dr Elisa Velazquez Ocean Pediatric Dental Associates OCEAN COUNTY - Did you miss your child’s dental check-up due to COVID? There is uncertainty over what the 2020-21 school year will look like, but add a dental checkup to the back-to-school checklist to keep your children’s smiles healthy.

We want to remind you to schedule your child’s dental check up to ensure your child’s overall dental and orthodontic health. September and October are great months for dental visits and starting the school year off with healthy habits and routines.

Dental problems and pain may put your child at a disadvantage with learning. Studies have shown that kids with dental problems and cavities may be more prone to missed school days,

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Although dental cavities are largely preventable, they remain the most common chronic disease of children aged 6 to 11 years and adolescents aged 12 to 19 years. Tooth decay is four times more common than asthma according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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By Bob Vosseller OCEAN COUNTY – The message is clear: you count; and your community, county and country are counting on you to fill out and return your Census 2020 form.

Astrong visual reminder to do just that was traveling around sections of Ocean County recently in the form of a billboard truck.

That truck made for a good backdrop for a photo to remind county residents about its message so on Aug. 18, Ocean County Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari paired up with Berkeley Township Mayor Carmen F. Amato Jr. for a friendly reminder urging county residents to fill out the 2020 Census questionnaire.

Among its stops, the billboard truck was seen in the Shoprite parking lot, Route 9, Berkeley Township.

It also stopped in South Toms River and will be traveling around to other areas of the county where the response rate has been low to raise awareness about the importance of being counted in 2020.

Census workers are also traveling with the billboard and can assist people with filling out the census form on the spot thus eliminating the need for census workers to visit the homes of residents who have not submitted their forms.

“An accurate census count is incredibly important to Ocean County and will help determine the amount of federal and state aid that we receive for the next decade,” Vicari said.

“We ask that anyone who has not yet completed their ensus forms to please do so as soon as possible,” the Freeholder Director added.

The 2020 census can be submitted online at 2020Census.gov, or by calling 844-330-2020, or by mail.

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Continued From Page 1 next, on July 6, 2016. Charles Bruder, a popular employee of a local hotel, had previously scoffed at the reports of the Beach Haven shark attacks, according to Fernicola. He swam beyond the lifelines, but still in front of tourists. The tourists heard a scream from the water. Lifeguards began rowing towards Bruder, who shouted that a shark had torn his legs off.

“The nature of Charles Bruder’s wounds, which clearly indicated the severing of multiple lower extremity arteries, produced such catastrophic blood loss that he died of irreversible circulatory shock within minutes of being hauled into the lifeguard boat,” according to the book.

Unfortunately, the attacks continued over the next several days.

Matawan was next. On July 1, Pre-teen boys aged around 11 or 12 flocked to muddy Matawan Creek, a tidal river, to swim and cool off.

Eleven-year-old Lester Stillwell’s father let him off work early because of his hard work that day and the heat. Lester and his buddies began to swim in the creek. Then the boys heard a scream.

Lester had been bitten by a “beast.” He sunk below the water.

Local dry cleaner Stanley Fisher set out to recover Lester’s body. He was able to grab Lester, but was

then attacked by the same beast that had engulfed the boy. Both Fisher and Lester died of injuries from the attacks, Fisher just before surgery to amputate his leg.

Twelve-year-old Joseph Dunn was the only New Jersey resident to survive the attacks. He spent two months in the hospital for work done to repair his lower left leg.

“I was about ten feet from the dock ladder when I looked down and saw something dark,” Dunn told The Asbury Park Press in an exchange noted in the book. “Suddenly I felt a tug, like a big pair of scissors pulling at my leg and bringing me under. I felt as if my leg had gone! I believe it would have swallowed me.”

Just whether it was one shark responsible for all the attacks or several was not ascertained at the time. But the multiple attacks stopped, after roughly a month. A number of investigators theorized that a great white shark was the cause.

But don’t worry too much about shark attacks this summer. Despite what happened in 1916, they are very rare.

“When one considers the number of people who swim in the sea and are otherwise unknowingly exposed to free-swimming sharks, the chances of being attacked by one are likely one in several million, and the chances of becoming a shark-attack fatality are higher still,” Fernicola wrote in the book.

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Hearing Help During Pandemic Times In my opinion, the effects of Covid-19 will remain in effect for at least the next 6 months and more than likely will linger into 2021. I strongly believe there will be several viable vaccines as well as therapeutics by the end of this year. In the meantime, it’s very important to wear a mask when social distancing is not an option. Always carry “hand sanitizer” with you!

When you decide to visit your hearing healthcare professional, make sure they have procedures in place in line with CDC recommendations. For example, in my practice, we take everyone’s temperature and have them complete a covid-19 questionnaire. Secondly, we limit only two patients in our waiting room at the same time. Third, we allow more time between patients to disinfect all areas.

Fourth, we have each patient leave our office from a different location. As a general rule, we are allowing at least an extra 15-30 minutes per patient. What this should mean is that you’re hearing care professional should be spending more time with you at each appointment. Equally important, if you’re not

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H ERE ’ S T O Y OUR H EALTH Dear Pharmacist Suzy Cohen, R. Ph.

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Eating mustard greens is probably an acquired taste, it’s not something most people like due to the pungent flavor of the greens. It’s worth it though, and I can help you make it taste delicious. One quick tip when cooking it is to use half mustard greens and half Swiss chard which makes it taste milder.

The benefits of this vegetable are hard to beat, and impart strong cancer-fighting compounds such as isothiocyanate or ITCs. These are sulfur-based nutrients that have been studied repeatedly for cancer-fighting effects. They can detoxify the body and this effect is common among all the cruciferous vegetables such as kale, broccoli, cauliflower, watercress and Brussels sprouts.

You might be thinking that mustard greens are goitrogenic, and can suppress thyroid function, however, if you cook them that is not going to be an issue. You will have to be careful though if you have kidney stones because of the high oxalates. Another caution is for those of you who take anticoagulant medications like warfarin. Mustard greens, like all greens contain a lot of natural Vitamin K which impacts blood clotting factors. With all these cautions out of the way, let me tell the rest of you why you should acquire a taste for mustard greens: 2 Major Reasons to Eat Mustard Greens: 1. Isothiocyanates or ITCs - Cruciferous veggies contain ITCs which are made from other compounds called “glucosinolates.”

Mustard greens have the highest ITC yield as compared to all cruciferous vegetables.

One particular glucosinolate is called “Sinigrin” and it has been studied for its ability to reduce AGE (Advanced Glycation End Products). It’s important to reduce AGE if you’re dealing a degenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The mustard seeds have the most of this compound (sinigrin), which has major therapeutic anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative potential. Absorbed ITCs are rapidly converted in your liver to something amazing called glutathione.

That’s an antioxidant that is known to detoxify heavy metals and other garbage in the body. Glutathione is a powerful benefit of eating greens!

2. SOD - SOD is short for Superoxide Dismutase which is an enzyme in your body that vacuums up dangerous “superoxides” which are oxygen-derived free radicals. One infamous toxin in this category is Hydrogen Peroxide or H2O2. It’s not just in those brown bottles sold as an antiseptic, your cells make it! In a normal, healthy pathway the H2O2 is broken down immediately by Catalase or SOD which turns them into water and oxygen. But some people don’t have enough SOD or Catalase. When it builds up it raises your risk for thyroid disease, chronic fatigue, breast cancer (most cancers actually!) as well as respiratory problems such as COPD (Chronic Pulmonary Disease) and asthma.

I have a longer version of this article posted at my website as well as a recipe for Garlic Parmesan Mustard Greens. It’s delicious! Eating these greens even once or twice a week will give you noticeable health impacts that can’t be beat!

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Gait, Falls and Common Gait Dysfunctions By: Jeffrey Mayer, PT, DPT

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alking, or ambulation, is one of the most important functional activities that we perform to maintain our independence. Without our ability to safely ambulate around the home or in the community, we must rely on either an assistive device (cane, walker, wheelchair, crutches, etc.) or another person to help. When we were younger, we took our ability to walk for granted. As we grow older, we must start paying attention to how we walk and think about our own personal safety. If our ability to ambulate is impaired, we run a great risk for serious injury. A statistic from the CDC states that more than 1 out of 4 older people (65 years or older) fall each year. This article will briefly talk about the gait cycle, a common gait dysfunction, a common culprit for multiple gait dysfunctions, falls and how we can prevent falls in the future.

leg laterally (out to the side), but they also work to support proper hip alignment during gait. When these muscles are weak, they cause a gait pattern that appears as a limp. The limp can be demonstrated when one side of the hip drops as the other side hikes up. The side that hikes up (during stance phase on that same leg) is the side with the weak musculature.

This limp can lead to a slower walking speed, a more strenuous gait pattern and ultimately an increased risk of falling.

THE GAIT CYCLE

As mentioned above, the gluteus medius is a key muscle when talking about gait and overall balance during functional activities like transfers and climbing stairs. Weakness in the gluteus medius can not only cause abnormal gait patterns, like Trendelenburg gait, but it can also cause weakness in other surrounding muscles or negative compensation patterns during your activities of daily living (ADLs). The muscle specifically acts to move the leg out to the side (laterally), prevent unnecessary movement of the leg inwards (medially), and to stabilize the hips. Without proper strength in this muscle, patients increase their risk of falling tremendously.

Gait, or “locomotion achieved through the movement of human limbs,” is much more complex than one would think.

As physical therapists (PTs), we are movement specialists and we are one of the only medical professionals that specialize in human gait. Human gait can be separated into many different aspects that are crucial to understand when trying to correct unsafe gait. Briefly, gait is broken up into 7 distinct phases (as shown above; initial contact, weight acceptance, midstance, terminal stance, initial swing, mid-swing, and terminal swing.

Each phase of gait could present with dysfunctions that could lead to an increased fall risk. As a PT, we must be able to find our patients’ gait dysfunctions, educate them, and help properly correct their mechanics to lead to a decreased fall risk. When we analyze abnormal gait patterns, we commonly categorize them into a few specific categories of gait; antalgic gait, ataxic gait, festinating gait, hemiplegic gait, high steppage gait, spastic gait and Trendelenburg gait.

TRENDELENBURG GAIT The Trendelenburg gait pattern is one of the most common abnormal gait patterns seen in physical therapy. It is commonly seen when patients have weak hip muscles; the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus. These two muscles work to move the

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When looking at the statistics, 1 out of every 5 falls cause serious injuries such as broken bones or head injuries. Even more alarming is that every year about 3 million people nationwide are treated in hospital emergency rooms for fall related injuries. In our country, the elderly population (65 years or older) is at the greatest risk for falls. These statistics may be shocking, but the reason people fall and injure themselves is because of improper gait, weakness, and decreased balance.

The dangers that a single fall can present to the older population can, and most likely will, impact an entire life afterwards.

WHY DO WE FALL? Falls can be caused by so many factors, including environmental factors, behavioral factors and physical factors. Environmental factors include obstacles in the home (rugs, pets, dark/dim lighting, etc.) and obstacles in the community. Behavioral factors include improper nutrition, improper monitoring of blood pressure, decreased confidence, confusion associated with Alzheimer’s disease/dementia, and cognitive impairments associated with stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and more. Lastly, physical factors include muscle weakness, difficulty walking,

balance impairments, coordination impairments, vision problems, foot/ankle pain, and proper footwear. Most falls are caused by a combination of the above risk factors, and the more risk factors a person may have, the more likely they are to suffer a fall. In order to reduce the amount of risk factors that we present with and to reduce the risk of falling, we must consult our healthcare providers before a fall occurs.

WHAT CAN WE DO? If you’ve fallen in the past year and feel like you are at risk for falling again, the first thing you should do is contact a trusted healthcare provider. Your primary care physician, orthopedic physician, PT, occupational therapist (OT), physician assistant (PA) or nurse practitioner (NP) would be happy to discuss possible options for you moving forward. Ultimately, since your PT is an expert on gait, falls and balance, they will be able to properly evaluate and assess your current condition. Your PT will possibly find a positive Trendelenburg sign, suggest certain assistive devices, provide exercises to build strength and balance, provide education on proper gait, suggest community exercise classes and assess the safety of your home environment. Do not be afraid to talk to a healthcare provider about your fall risk and your gait!

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