Tuesday, March 15, 2016

March 2016 Spotlight - Scoliosis ( Dr. Gary Lee, D.C. )

Our spotlight this month is on Scoliosis.  Dr. Gary E. Lee, D.C. has been trained in a ground-breaking treatment technique, described in the excerpt below.


From the article:

I have been fortunate to have been trained in a new treatment technique called “ScoliBrace”.  This bracing technique developed by Dr. Jeb McAviney D.C. in Australia has been used in thousands of scoliosis cases, and shown to not only improve the overall posture, but to actually correct the vertebra deformed in the scoliosis.  It is actual correction of the deformed curvature, where the improvement in vertebral growth can be seen on x-rays, and improvement in the curvatures measured on x-rays.  
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If you have noted changes to your child’s posture, or they have begun complaining about back pain, it is urgent to check them for scoliosis.  Scolibrace has developed a home evaluation tool you can pull up on your computer and evaluate your child. You can go to http:app.scoliscreen.com and follow the instructions.  If it indicates there may be a risk for scoliosis, call me for an evaluation.  Please mention this article to my receptionist and she will schedule your evaluation including x-rays AT NO CHARGE.

For the full article please go to this link: Scoliosis

The above information made available courtesy of:

Gary E. Lee, D.C.
Elevation Health
Non-Surgical Correction of Scoliosis
and Abnormal Postures
6216 South Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, UT 84123
801-974-5555

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Utah Kids Foundation - Kid of the Month - March 2016



Lucas is 7 years old, Has Autism with flight risk, SPD, ADHD, seizures, and cyclic vomiting syndrome. Lucas also struggles with severe chewing and drastic vision loss.Lucas was a great baby, because of Zachary's issues I had milk free and soy free diet and he seemed to be thriving. he had no weight issues or failure to thrive. At 9 months old so he stopped talking he lost the words that he had. He was throwing up regularly at that point for 2 months and was diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome. but he continued to thrive and not have any weight issues. he was a happy baby and met milestones early except talking. he had impulse issues as a toddler but we didn't think anything of it because most toddlers do. he also had a very high pain tolerance which the doctor was concerned about. At 2 he had his first seizures and a few months after that we went to Primary Children where they did tests and gave us no diagnosis. we were sent home to just wait and see. At 3 the doctor was starting to be concerned about a few things but couldn't quite put his finger on what was going on. he still wasn't sleeping through the night he was very impulsive and he seemed to not be able to communicate even though verbally he was well above his peers. his four year old check up the doctor finally referred him to a specialist. he wasn't understanding potty training and wasn't doing well and preschool intellectually he seemed above his peers but he was missing concepts and not being able to communicate. He was violent with his peers and struggled with any sort of friend relationship. after seeing the the specialist Dr Arch she diagnosed Lucas with autism and we started to see the things that everybody was missing. unfortunately 3 years ago in St George there was not any services for children with autism that were not on the autism waiver program. thankfully shortly after that he was on Medicaid and services open. He received in home services and Group services and was starting to make real progress on his 6th birthday he was finally potty trained and was finally thriving in kindergarten. we also find found out that he has over 150 IQ and struggled with being bored by having to stay with his peers. With the Carson Smith grant we change schools and put them in a smaller private school and he's doing amazing there he's now working on multiplication and division in first grade. Unfortunately Lucas also struggled with extreme vision loss.

They have struggled with everyday things like shopping and school.

We got a service dog for Lucas last year and he is doing great. Then our dog was attacked she was unable to work and we had to retire her. Lucas seems to be doing well with any sort of animal.