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Professional Audiology Associates: Rediscover Your Life

If you’re experiencing problems with your hearing, then your life may not feel the same as it once did. Being unable to fully hear the words of your loved ones, either in person or over the phone, is not only discouraging and frustrating, but also incredibly harmful for your brain’s health.

Thankfully, for all of your hearing needs, you don’t need to look further than the one-stop shop at Professional Audiology Associates in Jupiter! For everything from hearing evaluations and tinnitus relief to hearing protection and hearing loss treatment, Gabrielle Poplarchick, Au.D., CCC-A — the audiologist at Professional Audiology Associates — is available to compassionately and comprehensively help you to rediscover your life as it was before your hearing issues began.

How It Works

A common misconception about hearing challenges and hearing loss is that you can simply purchase a hearing aid, put it in your ear, and be on your way. But, as Dr. Poplarchick explains, “The follow-up care is really what keeps that hearing aid working, functioning, and helping you as the patient to hear the best you can. So, it’s not like putting on a pair of glasses and everything is crystal clear.” If you want your hearing (and life in general) to return to normal, then you need to work with a trusted and knowledgeable professional like Dr. Poplarchick, who will ensure that your hearing aids are always customized speci cally for you and your unique needs.

As a part of Hearing Health Connection and Alpaca Audiology, Professional Audiology Associates also has a network of trusted sister of ces located in the Northeastern

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part of the United States. This network is especially advantageous to patients who travel to or split their time between our area and Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia. “If patients came here,” explains Dr. Poplarchick, “then they’ll be treated the exact same way if they are visiting an of ce that is part of Hearing Health Connection.” She adds, “All of a patient’s warranties and services will be honored at that sister clinic because it’s part of our parent company.”

What to Expect

As a new patient, your rst visit to the Professional Audiology Associates of ce, which is handicap-accessible, will be easygoing and uncomplicated.

Acadia, the of ce’s friendly receptionist, and the knowledgeable Dr. Poplarchick will both warmly welcome you to the practice. From there, the doctor will take you back to her of ce to go over your comprehensive case history, asking questions to determine what problems you are experiencing and why. Next, you and Dr. Poplarchick will enter the testing room, where the doctor will look into your ears. As she looks inside your ear, she projects an image of it onto a large TV in the room so that you can follow along with her diagnosis. The doctor will also check the pressure in your ears to ensure that there are no issues, such as uid behind your eardrums. Finally, you will undergo a full and complete hearing test inside the comfortable, handicap-accessible examination booth.

Once your hearing test is completed, you and Dr. Poplarchick, along with any family or friends who are with you, sit down again to discuss the results and determine whether you are a candidate for hearing aids. If not, then your next step may just be a referral to an ear, nose, and throat doctor. But, if you do qualify for hearing aids, then Dr. Poplarchick will demo a pair of hearing aids with you right then and there! In this way, you get a feel for how hearing aids work and feel so that you can make an informed decision about what’s next for you.

When you get hearing aids from Professional Audiology Associates, you don’t just receive a generic, one-size- ts-all solution. Dr. Poplarchick orders hearing aids that are made speci cally for you, your wants, and your needs. Once your personalized hearing aids arrive, they will be custom- tted to your ears by the doctor.

Ultimately, if you have hearing loss, then the absolute best thing to treat and resolve it is to get hearing aids! Why? Because untreated hearing loss signi cantly impairs the brain, and has been proven to increase the risk of heart disease, social isolation, diabetes, depression, cognitive decline, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and dementia.

The Follow-Up

With hearing aids, Dr. Poplarchick explains, “Follow up care is what’s really, really important because it’s an adjustment period.” Indeed, once you have your hearing aids, your brain has to get used to hearing sounds that it has not heard in, probably, quite some time. It will take a few tweaks to the hearing aids to get everything just right, but once it’s all settled, patients “see the difference right away,” says Dr. Poplarchick.

From there, every six months, you should de nitely be receiving a check up of your ears, as well as a cleaning of both your hearing aids and your ears. It’s important to maintain these appointments because the doctor will not only make sure that your ear is clean, clear, and healthy, but will also look over your hearing aid’s cleanliness. “It is a tiny little electronic that you’re wearing in your ear. It’s prone to moisture, wax, and dust, so you de nitely want to keep it in good shape,” explains Dr. Poplarchick.

Additionally, you should get a hearing test each year to keep up with any changes to your prescription. Of course, if you are noticing any changes on your own, then Dr. Poplarchick encourages you to contact the of ce at your earliest opportunity so that they can adjust your hearing aids accordingly.

For any and all of your appointments, Dr. Poplarchick encourages you to bring along a trusted family member or loved one, especially if they live with you. “It’s de nitely helpful to have that extra person with you because there is a lot of information,” she says, continuing, “And, if you live together, then they’re experiencing those frustrations with you.”

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The bottom line is that when you cannot hear, your brain is not working properly. And, when your brain doesn’t work properly, you put other aspects of your health at risk! Beyond those potential physical implications are the social ones, too, wherein you lose parts of your life that you once loved and cherished, like interacting with your family at a large gathering or enjoying a conversation with a friend over lunch in a crowded restaurant.

Let Dr. Gabrielle Poplarchick, Au.D., CCC-A at Professional Audiology Associates help you to rediscover your life by restoring your hearing! Your initial hearing test is always free, and the of ce accepts insurance. If you don’t have insurance, then you can also nance your hearing aids using HealthiPlan or CareCredit.

“We are here to help you,” Dr. Poplarchick af rms, adding, “And we want to have that positive impact on your quality of life. Whether you do need hearing aids, or you need a referral, whatever it might be, we just want to get you the help that you’re looking for.”

Professional Audiology Associates, which is a part of Hearing Health Connection, is open Mondays-Fridays from 9AM-5PM.

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Stretching Into the Holidays…

Every 5,000 miles, like clockwork, you take your car to get its oil changed and tires rotated. It’s basic, routine maintenance, but that consistent attention and upkeep is vital for your vehicle to run e ciently, especially over a number of years. Your body, much like your vehicle, requires regular care and treatment to keep it healthy. And, again like your automobile, your body needs support from someone other than yourself, a professional who can guide it to achieving its utmost abilities and to retaining its peak performance.

Getting older, playing sports, or having a condition like sciatica or arthritis shouldn’t hold you back from living your life! You can feel like your younger self again, the one who didn’t feel any aches or pains when walking, running, jumping, or even sitting… all you have to do is visit Stretch Zone.

Drew Brees, former quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, is the newest partner at Stretch Zone who advocates for people to regularly get stretched. A er personally going to Stretch Zone for an assisted stretching session, Drew was impressed with the uniquely e ective and nationally accredited Stretch Zone Method®, which is administered by a highly-trained and Stretch Zone-certi ed stretch practitioner.

Here’s How It Works:

1.) Your rst session begins with lling out an intake form and having a consultation with your experienced and knowledgeable stretch practitioner. Based on your medical background and your personal goals, the stretch practitioner will personalize the ensuing 30-minute assisted stretching session to meet your individual needs.

On subsequent visits, you’ll simply do a check-in with the practitioner to update your medical pro le with any recent changes and/or any new pain or discomfort that you might be experiencing.

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2.) e stretch practitioner initiates the rst steps of the approved Stretch Zone Method®, utilizing Stretch Zone’s special patented straps to encourage your body to relax and ease into the stretches. You won’t nd these straps anywhere else! Comparable to a thunder jacket for your pets, they are meant to calm your mind so that your entire body is perfectly loose, thus allowing the stretch practitioner to stretch your body to its full potential and, as a result, provide you with both preventative maintenance and pain relief.

3.) Assisted stretching (a/k/a passive stretching) is di erent from physical therapy in that your body is being stretched by someone else; thus, you’re not actually doing any work. roughout your 30-minute session, the stretch practitioner will be steadily interacting one-on-one with you, ensuring that you are completely comfortable and not experiencing any pain. Ultimately, you are in control of the stretch, even as your practitioner guides your body through each and every step, because you tell the practitioner when you feel your best stretching position. e more you communicate, the better results you’re going to get!

Take advantage of Stretch Zone’s incredible FREE 30 Minute Stretch Session! Anybody and everybody can and should be stretched.

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Remember, it’s just like getting your oil changed! Plus, celebrities and professional athletes have been getting stretched for years, so it’s time for the general population to be clued into the secret!

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Anybody freaked out about a category one hurricane besides me? I took the entire thing in stride, until a erward, when I realized the power of water! My backyard was full of river mud, seaweed, other people’s dock planks, and just general mess. I was lucky. e neighbor to my le had two feet of water under his house, where he has outdoor furniture, man-cave stu , and storage. He also had the entire river breach his pool and knock out his pool pump. I was right where he is now, during Frances and Jean, in 2004, 2005, and believe me, it wasn’t pretty! e neighbor on my other side, whose dock planks were about twenty years old, lost many of them, some to the river, some to my backyard. His neighbor also had her pool breached with river mud, and lost her pool pump. I can’t say how anyone else did, but I heard plenty of stories of broken docks and unmoored boats.

My point is this. Until now, I paid attention to the actual number of the storm, if it was a Category 1, I barely paid attention, a Cat 2 or 3, minimal concern, maybe some supplies, nothing drastic. I really became concerned if it was a Cat 4 and I hightailed out of town for a Cat 5. ose were the old days, ose were the old rules. Today we’re in an entirely new normal, and not a good one. e numbers no longer tell the story. Storm surge is now on the top of my list

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of worries, where it will remain forever more. My street, the main road, and many other streets were under water. I can now understand why they tell you to never drive through deep water, because it can carry a car away, or submerge it. I thought that was an old wives tale, something that got hyped up on the news, to scare people. Nope. It’s real life, and the truth. e only good news, if there is any, for this minimal hurricane, is that it did not carry the lightening and thunder that most hurricanes do. I am not ashamed to admit, nothing scares me more than lightening.

I am originally from up north. From what I remember, which is at least 49 years ago, we never got these downpours that can completely derail travel. We also certainly never had to fear being killed by lightening, because it was not the cloud to ground lightening that we experience here in Florida. Maybe that’s all changed, maybe not. But I can tell you one thing, there is a price to pay for the paradise that we live in, and that price is steep. In a moment’s notice, we can lose property, homes, and even life. ose of us who choose to live here, either by desire or by default, really have to start paying attention to what Mother Nature is telling us. Ultimately, we are ghting a battle that many of us were not prepared for. My thoughts are these. We should stock up our cabinets as if we are going to lose power, for

days. If we do not use our canned goods, we can donate them right around this time of the year to those less fortunate, and be done with it. If we are able to a ord hurricane windows and doors, we should not put o getting them. If we cannot a ord them, plywood or metal shutters are the next best thing. A generator is the candle on top of the cake. If you have the money, it is a great investment.

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For What it’s Worth , it is up to every one of us to take people in, feed them, shelter them, and check on them afterward. If we are this side of luck, count your blessings. If we are on the other side of luck, hope that someone will care.I will. Will you?

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Put Your Best Foot Forward

With Dr. Orlando Cedeño at Abacoa Podiatry

The rst time Dr. Orlando Cedeño, DPM, FACFAS, saw a podiatrist was as an athlete in school. He didn’t realize it at the time, but he was getting a rst look into his future as a foot and ankle doctor and surgeon. It wasn’t until later on, when his mother was diagnosed with Diabetes, that Dr. Cedeño remembered podiatry. Diabetics have a “strong need” for diabetic limb salvage, a procedure often handled by podiatric surgeons. Suddenly, podiatry became personal.

With an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and a passion for people, Dr. Cedeño decided to earn his degree in Podiatry from Barry University. After graduating in 2006, he pursued his passion even further and completed a 3-year foot and ankle surgical residency followed by an international trauma fellowship in Switzerland. But he still wasn’t nished yet… next was Dr. Cedeño’s FACFAS certi cation.

The FACFAS title indicates that Dr. Cedeño is a fellow in the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. The certi cation requires an extensive amount of work and testing, as well as re-certi cation every 10 years. Not every podiatrist is a FACFAS! There is no requirement for doctors to pursue the certi cation, but Dr. Cedeño did because he wants to provide the best, most comprehensive experience for his patients. He is also board certi ed by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.

Fast forward to today, and Dr. Cedeño is utilizing his expertise to help and heal people all over Palm Beach

County (and beyond!) at his practice, Abacoa Podiatry.

Abacoa Podiatry is “more of a boutique practice” in that it is a smaller, private setting where you will truly get to know the doctors and staff members. The doctors really take their time, listening to everything you have to say and thoroughly examining your feet and ankles to diagnose your issue. Dr. Cedeño explains, “We have a family practice that’s old school. You’re not a number! We look at you as an individual and as a friend. That’s why we call our patients ‘friends of the practice.’” Even with surgical procedures, you can expect to see the doctors throughout the entire process, from beginning to end.

For Dr. Cedeño, it’s very important to understand and listen to patients. His goal is not only to nd a solution and relieve pain for patients, but also to make them feel comfortable and heard. He says, “Having that relationship with your doctor where you can express yourself, and where we can formulate what’s going on and what to expect… that’s something that patients really appreciate.”

Dr. Cedeño is also very focused on using the latest and greatest in technology at Abacoa Podiatry. For example, patients can take advantage of a modern regenerative treatment called Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy. PRP Therapy involves using your own blood and plasma to inject into your wound or joint so that your body heals itself! Your plasma acts like a natural steroid, and Dr. Cedeño

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explains, “There’s nothing better than injecting your own body’s plasma.”

Abacoa Podiatry is also home to lasers that help with issues such as fungal nails, warts, and chronic pain. It may sound intimidating, but the laser does not hurt and treatment is completed in the of ce in less than an hour. By the end of your appointment, you can leave as normal… minus the pain and discomfort!

Victoria, a new patient at Abacoa Podiatry, recently underwent her rst cold laser treatment at the practice. She experiences random shooting pains in her feet that prevent her from wearing certain shoes. After the treatment though, Victoria could already feel a difference! She says, “I didn’t feel any pain from the laser and Dr. Cedeño explained everything to me

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as he went through the process. I am de nitely coming back for another treatment!”

Abacoa Podiatry is your one-stop shop for foot and ankle health!

Dr. Cedeño’s FACFAS certi cation, combined with his years of education, fellowship, and experience, qualify him to help you with a wide range of foot/ankle issues, so you’re not going to be sent to multiple doctors’ of ces to nd the best solution. Additionally, with Dr. Andrew Levy as his partner, Dr. Cedeño is able to consult and work with another widely respected expert in Podiatry to solve virtually any foot/ankle problems. You’re safe at Abacoa Podiatry because, together, Drs. Cedeño and Levy have 41 years of experience!

It’s time to put your best foot forward… call Abacoa Podiatry to schedule your appointment with the experts and become one of the “friends of the practice!”

Abacoa Podiatry is located at 4601 Military Trail, Suite 202, in the Bermudiana Shopping Plaza in Jupiter. The office is open Mondays-Fridays from 8:30AM-5PM and Saturdays by appointment. For more information about Abacoa Podiatry, please call 561-468-8230 or visit orlandocedenodpm.com.

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