Conemaugh Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Pink Cross Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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andfluzbt ie-L.-. i-fi t f-'rs fhysical Ther-ap .292 Miss Pearl Cricco gives short-wave diathermy it S 2 If :T 45 Dorothy Stutzmcm directs footsteps

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0212420 I oan Burket practices medical asepsis '--nu - I Phyllis Funk, Ioan Burlcet and Dr. I. I. Huebner DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL THERAPY Rehabilitation is the goal Miss Pearl Cricco, physical therapist, strives to attain as she outlines a prescribed program of activity for the handicapped. Rehabilitation is the final step toward the patient's health and happiness. After mastering such fundamentals as crutch-Walk- ing and cane-Walking, handicapped individuals have a firm foundation to Work and live effective- ly with normal individuals in a normal environment. Each year our hospital stresses more and more the importance of a good physical medi- cine department by providing facilities tor various modalities of physical therapy-electrother- apy, hydrotherapy, mechanotherapy, and thermotherapy. Each year an additional number ot pa- tients With neuromuscular diseases are treated by means of Water, heat, light, electricity, mas- sage, exercise and meticulous muscle re-education. Moreover, a functional testing and training program tor convalescent poliomyelitis patients has been set up to adjudge the individual patient's ability to return to a normal environment and to carry out certain basic procedures With complete independence. The possibilities are many through intelligent, remedial bed exercises, mat exercises, Wheel-chair activities and resistance exercises. Once the muscles are mastered, the handicapped do come back!

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. 4 492. UM hun 25. Aa Q- CANCER CLINIC Had you a great-grandfather, a great- grandtather of the stock of American pioneers? Perhaps you remember the tingling sensation that came to you while listening to his backwoods stories of pioneer days in the West, of pathless for- est, of lashing hail, of wandering plains, nights of sparkling stars, when into a wagon camp blazing arrows from roam- ing hostile Indians were shot to scare white marauders from the land. Had you a grandfather who remembered tales of famine and of fever - of typhoid and smallpox days when through the streets rubber-tired, black-curtained hacks silently carried away the dead? These enemies are gone, but cancer remains! Trained minds of all the countries of the world are deeply intent upon its problem. Almost every community has an active cancer control program which has these objectives: prevention of cancer, case-finding and early diagnosis, and the establishment of cancer diagnostic and treat- ment facilities. Our Cancer-Tumor and our Cancer Detection Clinics, under the direction of Dr. L. R. Alte- mus, squarely meet these objectives! Both clinics offer specialized service for the cancer patient from a group of key specialists who are concerned and trained in cancer diagnosis and man- agement. Key members of both clinic staffs are: Pathologist, Dr. G. C. Leary, Radiologist, Dr. C. B. Co- berng Surgeons, Dr. L. R. Altemus, Dr. W. L. Hughes, Dr. George McCartney, Dr. W. H. Frank, Dr. I. B. Lovette and Dr. G. E. Gleason, Internists, Dr. R. A. Noon, Dr. Philip Ashman and Dr. Rich- ard Kraftg Gynecologists, Dr. D. G. Bloom and Dr. Hargreaves: Urologists, Dr. F. T. Carney and Dr. C. I. Carney: Ophalalmologist, Dr. L. M. Gurley, Ir., Otorhinolaryngologists, Dr. P. T. Meyers and Dr. W. K. Flora: Grthopedists, Dr. I. I. Huebner and Dr. G. H. Hudsong Dermatologist, Dr. W. F. Whitey Oral Surgeon, Dr. D. R. Wolford: Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. I. C. Hatch. Many victims of cancer have lost the fight, and many hearts are heavy at the mere thought of lick- ing this killer, but we feel confident that our clinics are doing a good job at striking back! Dr. L. R. Altemus directs Cancer Clinic Dr. W. H. Frank and Dr. I. B. Lovette