Help Available For Chronic Pain and Many Other Conditions

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BY DR. STEPHANIE NANI

Pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to visit their doctor each year. Conventional medicine, while brilliant in urgent and emergent care situations, is often lacking when it comes to the treatment of chronic pain. The goal of conventional therapy is the alleviation of discomfort, but the underlying causes of pain are often overlooked. As a result relief is often just temporary. In this article we will discuss the unique combination of Osteopathic Medicine and Neural Therapy. Each of these approaches, when used individually works very well, but when used in combination offers an extremely safe and effective option for the treatment of a wide range of conditions including chronic pain.

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Wild Friends Foods Update

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BY ERIKA WELSH, CO-FOUNDER, WILD FRIENDS FOODS

Portland local natural foods company, Wild Friends Foods is celebrating their 5th Birthday!

Wild Friends launched into grocery stores in November 2011. The first stores that carried their products just so happened to be the Friendliest Store in Town, otherwise known as New Seasons Market!

What started as a fun afternoon project in a University of Oregon apartment quickly turned into a full time business for Tualatin natives and best friends Keeley Tillotson and Erika Welsh.

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Japanese “Hibachi” Style Steakhouse Comes to Tualatin

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BY JONATHAN CRANE, FOR TUALATIN LIFE

Tualatin residents love it when new and unique restaurants come to town. Thanks to the recent opening of Izumi Japanese Steakhouse, we now have an outstanding new choice for excellent family dining.

Izumi features hibachi style cooking on traditional teppan tables, which not only provide fantastic food, but also an exciting, visual experience as a team of very talented chefs cut, slice and dice before your very eyes. This is exciting to watch, like having your own private live entertainment, right at your table.

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Local Midwest CIO3 School and Neighbor Emergency Preparedness

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BY ROBERT KELLOGG, IBACH CIO PRESIDENT

Twenty volunteers from the surrounding Tualatin CIO communities are graduating from the City’s first CERT Volunteer Mobilization Planning training program. (CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team. On behalf of all CIO community residents, we want to say thank you to these newly trained CERT team members who have volunteered six weeks of their time and energy to step up when the need arises.

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Aging in Place

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BY SUSAN NOACK, CHAIR, TUALATIN AREA AGING TASK FORCE

Last month’s column was on social isolation. It is such an important topic, it is worth repeating.

Social isolation is on the rise – one out of three adults over 65 years old lives alone. Reducing senior isolation is being able to get out of the house and interacting with other people. Isolation can lead to depression, poor health, loss of mobility or cognitive decline. The secret to reducing isolation is to start somewhere.

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State of Oregon taps Healthy, Wealthy & Wise to create free health insurance enrollment center

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Healthy, Wealthy & Wise is one of 35 Oregon insurance agencies that have received a grant from the Department of Consumer and Business Services, Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace to create a drop-in enrollment center during the upcoming health insurance open enrollment period from November 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017.

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Proud to Live in One of America’s Best Communities

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A Tualatin Teen’s Perspective on the New Mobile Makerspace

An Interview with Elaine Meslow, Tualatin High School, Committee Member for the America’s Best Communities Marketing Team:

How did you get involved in the ABC project?

I was first introduced to the America’s Best Communities Project during a Tualatin Library discussion asking students what STEAM materials they would want to see in The Tualatin Mobile Makerspace. I absolutely loved the concept; so much so that when I discovered that they were interested in having a high school student to assist on ABC Committee Meetings that I quickly voiced my interest and joined the project.

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Mask & Mirror Opens 6th Season with “The Last Night of Ballyhoo”

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SUBMITTED BY: GARY ROMANS

Mask & Mirror Community Theatre will present the drama/comedy “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” by Alfred Uhry to open their 6th season of plays. Taking place in Atlanta in 1939, it’s the story of the Freitag family, elitist German Jews more concerned with Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, than with the war events in Europe. The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations as the characters face where they come from and deal with who they really are.

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Finding a New Hat

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BY JONN KARSSEBOOM

I ran into an old friend, actually the mother of an old friend, the other day when I was busy paying for a hat to cover my new long hair. It was a windy day, and I was just learning about using too little pomade so my hair was like a tall tuft of blowing, swaying autumn grass.

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Tualatin Connection to Explosion that Rocked NW Portland

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BY REID IFORD, TUALATIN LIFE

The contractor working at a construction site where a natural gas explosion occurred in a Northwest Portland neighborhood on Wednesday, October 19, is based in Tualatin.

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