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Mar 9, 2021 10:38 AM
Baptist Health Madisonville has been awarded a $10,000 WHAS Crusade for Children grant that will help children in the Pediatric Therapy Care program.
According to a news release, the funds were utilized to purchase a gait training device called the LiteGait it is a gait training device that simultaneously controls weight bearing, posture, and balance over a treadmill or over ground. It suspends the patient and allows the clinician to manually assist lower extremities and pelvis to achieve proper gait patterns.
Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Services Director Marianne Ramsey says, “This new tool will allow for us to further assist the children that require our services and provide them with an even higher level of care. We will be able to provide standing support to the child while they work on upright activities such as writing on a dry erase board, and it provides safe guarding for loss of balance whe
“Conformable to that of the Waters”: The search for the origins of an early Kentucky furniture group Daniel Kurt Ackermann
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Fig. 1a. Chest of drawers, workshop of Gerrard Calvert (c. 1771–1840), Mason County, Kentucky, 1795–1800. Cherry, dark- and lightwood inlay, poplar; height 42 3/8, width 41 ¾, depth 21 3/8 inches.
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The French invented a word,
terroir, for describing how the unique qualities of a place affect the flavor of foods. Terroir is what makes wines, cheeses, and other foods made in a particular place distinguishable from those grown and made elsewhere. This same concept can also be applied to objects and extended beyond the environment and climate to include cultural, social, and economic factors.