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times when you need to rest and give
it a break to avoid strain and swelling.”
Levengood’s therapy includes a range
of exercises at home as well as during
the PT sessions. The goal is to achieve
an even, steady gait and good stability
that will enable him to move about
safely, resume his full range of normal
activities and avoid further injury.
Some activities have been more diffi cult
than others; for example, Levengood
found that stepping into and out of a
high vehicle requires strength that he
needed to work on. “My tractor step is
pretty high, but getting in and out of the
fire truck is much harder – I can really
feel it,” he says.
Moore has recommended exercises on
a specific piece of equipment, the Power
Tower, to help Levengood with the high-
(continued on next page) Levengood is glad to be getting his physical therapy close to home, as he explains,
“When you get local care from someone you know, you have a sense of trust, and trust is
important because half of healing successfully is having a good state of mind.”
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