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HEALTH Summer 2021
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Regenerative medicine can help foot pain BY GREER BANKS Tribune Guest Writer
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ust because you’re on your feet all day or are getting older, doesn’t mean your feet should hurt. “I hate to hear that foot pain is keeping someone from their everyday life,” says Dr. Kerry Zang, podiatric medical director of CiC Foot & Ankle. Another big reason why people live with chronic foot pain, they didn’t get relief from prior treatment and don’t know where to turn. “The thing that excites me most about being a doctor is finding new ways to help my patients. Regenerative medicine is one of the most effective breakthroughs I’ve seen in a long time. One of the biggest benefits is that it can treat so many different conditions,” says Zang. “It doesn’t matter if you are suffering from arthritis, an old injury, Achilles tendonitis, heel pain or plantar fasciitis, pain after surgery, the list goes on and on. Regenerative medicine may be able to help.” Regenerative injection therapy uses growth factors to help repair and restore tis-
sue, ligaments, and joints. Until recently, anti-inflammatory medication and steroid injections, like cortisone offered the best chance for relief. But these options just reduced the symptoms. “While cortisone stops the swelling and pain, it can also interfere with the healing process and more damage can occur,” explains Zang. Now, doctors are able to deal with the underlying problem that is causing the pain. RIT helps the body initiate its own healing response, where the body replaces, repairs, reprograms and renews diseased or injured cells. “Sometimes the body just needs a little boost to encourage the regenerative process. The growth factors in RIT do that,” says Zang. Zang recognizes that patients are skeptical. But notes, “RIT has great potential to offer relief.” One of his patients had been suffering for three years and surgery was not an option. After RIT, the patient reported no pain. “This is an unbelievable outcome…I thought this could never happen.” ■
Mesa gym ready to help people shed pandemic pounds TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF
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Northeast Mesa fitness studio is ready to help people who want to lose the weight they might have gained during the pandemic’s stayat-home season. And Don Chenevert of Better You Personal Training Better, 755 E. McKellips Road, knows from personal experience how to do it. He details on his website how he de-
cided a few years ago it was time for a change and how he became more active and through “healthy eating and daily exercise, my weight was dropping quickly.” “In nine months, I went from 245 pounds down to 175 pounds,” he explains. “Since losing weight I felt the need to help others, so I went to the National Academy of Sports Medicine to become a personal trainer.” His studio offers private one-on-one personal training that will help patrons
“lose weight, reduce stress, better yourself one workout at a time.” “If you’ve become sedentary, gained wait and no longer recognize the person in the mirror, call us,” he said. “Too many people put their families and career before health and don’t take action until the time is ‘right,’ which never comes. It doesn’t have to be that way.” His program is customized to help clients lose weight, get stronger, reduce stress, improve balance, be more active
“and plain and simply be your best self.” “Being active and doing things you did in your 20’s doesn’t need to be a thing of the past,” he said, adding that with the right program, strength training, cardiovascular training and the oft-neglected recovery people will get control of their health and life and live with a lot less stress.
Information: 480-206-2898 or betteryoupersonaltraining.com. ■