Zionsville: November is Patient Appreciation Month

A STRONGER CORE MEANS A HEALTHIER YOU

Do you ever find yourself slouching in a chair, slumping at the computer or your belly sticking out after standing for awhile? This is a sign of core muscle weakness that can negatively affect your health and create back or neck pain. What Are Your Core Muscles? Your “core” is the group of muscles that help stabilize your trunk and give a strong point from which your limbs can move properly with good posture. The core is made up of your abdominal, low back, pelvic, and gluteus muscles. When any one of these groups is weak, it can cause instability, poor balance, bad posture, fatigue, inflammation and back or neck pain. Can’t I Just Do Sit-ups? Strengthening the abdominals is just one component of strengthening your core muscles. It takes an expert, trained in the science of human movement to analyze fromwhere your pain is coming. Our physical therapy professionals are just those experts. Whether your pain is from your back, neck, shoulders, or legs, we perform a thorough analysis of your posture, movement, and strength.This allows us to pinpoint exactly what is causing your pain, select the correct exercises to begin your program and develop an effective treatment plan to obtain the fastest results. Get to the CORE of your issues and carve out some time and energy to come to ZPT and take care of it! Call 317.873.2033.

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Judy's Apple Crisp Recipe

Here’s my mom’s favorite Apple Crisp recipe, perfected over the years. Peel and CORE your apples after you’ve

done your CORE exercises. Enjoy! - Elaine

INGREDIENTS • 6 cups pared, sliced baking apples • 1 c. brown sugar • ¾ c. flour • ¾ c. rolled oats

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon • 1 teaspoon nutmeg • ½ c. soft butter • Optional: may add raisins and/or chopped nuts

DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 375°. Place apples in greased baking dish. Blend remaining ingredients until crumbly; spread over apples. Bake at 375° for 30 to 35 minutes or until apples are tender and topping golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream.

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