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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Therapy Tune-Up: Mindful Mosaic Tiles
Use mosaic tiles to create your own patterns, or follow one of the examples.
Order shapes of glass or other material to make your own mosaic patterns. If you don’t have tiles, you can use pieces of paper or simply color in the design on the page itself. Use this time creating your patterns to relax, focus on mindfulness, and bring your stress levels down.
Blood Cancer Awareness
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, a time for advocates and supporters of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to raise awareness both nationally and locally about efforts to fight blood cancers including Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and Myeloma.
Therapy Tune-Up: Neck Pain & Tension Relief
An easy way to prevent injury by strengthening your muscles over time.
Use these simple instructions to help relieve tension and neck pain over time. Rotate, tilt, nod, press, and side press once a day!
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy aging month takes place in the month of September every year. During this month, we aim to help raise awareness about living a healthy lifestyle so more individuals can look forward to growing older. During the past year, all of us, and particularly our elder population have faced unexpected challenges. It is important now, more than ever, that we address and take a proactive approach to aging.
Alzheimer's Awareness
World Alzheimer’s Month falls in September each year. During the month, advocates aim to create more awareness about the disease. Because Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are common and affect over 50 million people around the world, it is important to raise awareness of how to recognize symptoms, risk factors involved, and the current treatment available for individuals.
Therapy Tune-Up: Paint or Color by Number
It’s easy to follow the numbers and create your colorful work of art. Practicing this activity helps develop stronger attention skills, concentration, and focus. Painting or coloring addresses visual discrimination and recognition. Keeping up with this practice can also help individuals improve their short-term memory.
Prostate Cancer Awareness
Every month in September, we observe prostate cancer awareness month. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer occurring in men aside from skin cancer. In many cases, individuals do not present any symptoms until cancer has progressed. It is important that we promote awareness about prostate cancer and prostate cancer screenings to help individuals with early detection and overall prevention.
A Letter from Our CEO
Ask most therapists why they strive to become a therapist. Most will say some variation of wanting to help people and make a difference. When has the notation of wanting to help people become so cliche, but aren't the best cliches based on powerful truths that have become simple notions?
Team Feature: Jason Crawford, OT
This month we are featuring a new member of the Tilton’s Therapy team, Jason Crawford, Occupational Therapist!
Team Feature: Elaina Gregerson, PT
This month, we highlight a talented Physical Therapist on the Tilton’s Therapy Team, Elaina Gregerson!
Team Feature: Alyssa Carreon, PT
This month we are featuring a new member of the Tilton’s Therapy team, Alyssa Carreon, Physical Therapist!
Alyssa pronounces her name “Uh-l-eye-ssa” and not the usual “Uh-lih-ssa.” She was born and raised in the beautiful biggest little city of Reno. At the University of Nevada, Reno, Alyssa earned a Bachelor of Science in Community Health Science in 2018. She continued on to achieve her Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in 2022.
Team Feature: Moses Harvison, COTA
Meet this month’s featured team member, one of our newest additions to the Tilton’s Team, Moses Harvison, COTA!
Team Feature: Deanna Yates, Billing & Credentialing Manager
This month we are featuring our wonderful team member, Billing and Credentialing Manager, Deanna Yates! Deanna has worked in the medical field for over 25 years and has been a crucial member of the Tilton’s Therapy team for over 20 years!
2023 Vision Statement
2022 was a fabulous year for Tilton's Therapy and I want to take a moment to extend my gratitude and acknowledge some of our achievements over the past year. We would not be where we are without the trust and loyalty from our clients and families, and the dedication from our therapists and administrative team who embody our mission and core values each and every day.
Team Feature: Laura Howard, SLP
This month, we are featuring one of our excellent Speech-Language Pathologists, Laura Howard.
Team Feature: Ashlend Rodriguez, SLP
This month, our featured team member is Ashlend Rodriguez, SLP!
All of her previous work experience outside of this field has been related to helping others, such as a softball instructor, daycare assistant, or caretaker. After an experience shadowing a speech-language pathologist, Ashlend knew that it was a discipline she could see herself making into a career.
Team Feature: Edith Medley, Director of Human Resources
This month, our featured team member is Edith Medley, Director of Human Resources!
Edith has been working in the industry since 2009, working in outpatient clinics with both adults and pediatrics simultaneously.
Team Feature: Lead Therapists
This month, we are featuring our Lead Therapists, Megan Tabano, OT, Heather Karchefski, SLP, Renée Losey, SLP, and Erin Carder-McCoy, OT.
Team Feature: Itzel Martinez
This month we are featuring team member Itzel Martinez, our Patient Coordinator/Spanish Interpreter/Translator!
Itzel is originally from sunny San Diego, CA but has lived in Las Vegas, NV for over 10 years. She attended high school and college in Las Vegas before moving back to San Diego to begin working as an Instructional Assistant in Special Education.
Team Feature: Emily Walthers von Alten
This month, we are featuring our amazing Physical Therapist, Emily Walthers von Alten!
Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Allied Health Kinesiology before proceeding to earn a Doctorate in Physical Therapy, both at UNLV. In 2018, Emily started working with Tilton’s Therapy as she was easily inspired to work with kids in their natural environment after seeing children persevere and improve with therapy regardless of obstacles they face.