Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
Our orthopedics team provides surgical treatments and rehab therapies for musculoskeletal conditions affecting patients of all ages—including the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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We offer comprehensive care teams that include orthopedic physicians, physical therapists, rehabilitation specialists, and other advanced care providers.
Why Choose Us?
Each of our specialists has advanced training in an orthopedic specialty. You will be cared for by some of the country’s most renowned specialists.
And have access to a comprehensive care team that includes orthopedic physicians, physical therapists, rehabilitation specialists, and other advanced care providers
For more than 100 years, the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation has provided some of the most advanced care by attracting leaders in the field who use state-of-the-art approaches to treatment.
In addition to healing injuries and diseases, our physicians work to prevent them through ongoing research and community education.
Physicians across the Midwest refer their patients to us because our experts provide comprehensive orthopedic health services in the state of Iowa.
We treat every orthopedic condition including injuries and diseases of the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments with a staff that performs more than 9,000 operations every year
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Please join us for Stepping On, a seven-week workshop series to learn important exercises and strategies to help prevent falls.
Building Confidence and Reducing Falls
What is Stepping On?
Stepping On is a program that has been researched and proven to reduce falls in older people.
It consists of a workshop that meets for two hours a week for seven weeks. Workshops are led by two trained Stepping On professionals who partner to provide participants with a quality adult learning environment. In addition, local guest experts provide information on exercise, vision, safety, and medications.
Fall prevention topics include:
- Simple and fun balance and strength training
- The role vision plays in keeping your balance
- How medications can contribute to falls
- Ways to keep from falling when out in your community
- What to look for in safe footwear
- How to eliminate falls hazards from your home
Why should I be concerned about falling?
Falling is very common; it can result in injury and shake your confidence. The threat of falling can be a barrier to safely doing all the things you want to do at home and in the community. That’s why preventing falls is critical to maintaining independence.
Fall injury statistics
- More than one-third of people age 65 or older fall each year
- Falls are the leading cause of hospitalizations due to injury among older adults
- 35 percent of people who fall become less active
- 40 percent of people who enter a nursing home had a fall in the prior 30 days
What Stepping On workshop participants had to say:
“When I’m walking I still think, ‘Lift your feet, walk heel-to-toe’. I have stopped falling outside! It has made me more aware of the way I walk.”
“Not only did we learn some things about preventing falls, but we had a good time doing it. It was really fun.”
Is this fall and injury prevention workshop for you?
Stepping On is designed specifically for anyone who:
- Is 65 or older
- Has had a fall in the past year or is fearful of falling
- Lives at home
- Does not have dementia
How do I register?
Stepping On is a seven-week, two hours per week, interdisciplinary workshop that covers fall prevention topics such as home safety, vision care, medications, safe footwear, community safety, and exercise. The exercises are aimed at increasing strength and balance. Stepping On has been shown to decrease falls by 31% in older adults.
Please contact Bailey Rickels at [email protected] for more information.