Beaumont Home Health and Senior Physical Therapy

For many Southeast Texas seniors, their first experience with physical therapy comes late in life after a fall or injury. A Southeast Texas home health physical therapist helps assess your muscular system, skeletal system, and can educate both patients and their families on issues relating to safety and mobility during the rehabilitation and healing process. This can be done in... Read More

Paula Deen encourages you to take a walk in her footsteps and start seeing diabetes in a new light

(BPT) – Over the past year, Paula Deen and her sons, Bobby and Jamie, have partnered with Novo Nordisk on Diabetes in a New Light(R), a national initiative to help adults find simple ways to manage everyday challenges associated with type 2 diabetes. Through Diabetes in a New Light(R), they have developed delicious diabetes-friendly recipes and visited cities across the country... Read More

SETX Home Health Guide to Southeast Texas Senior Foot Wounds and Diabetes Management

Southeast Texas Senior Diabetes continues to be a growing concern. One serious issue that is directly related to diabetes is Southeast Texas senior foot wounds. A Southeast Texas senior diabetic’s foot and ankle are especially vulnerable to wound problems. A Golden Triangle diabetic’s foot and ankle are prone to swelling, which can inhibit healing. It is also very difficult... Read More

Sandwich generation turns to technology to help take care of aging parents

(BPT) – It’s human nature to want to take care of those we love. In fact, nearly 66 million Americans are caregivers, who spend about 19 hours a week caring for a loved one, according to AARP. Many of those caregivers are looking after older parents who don’t live with them. And while helping aging parents with everything from financial management to health care... Read More

A decade of scientific breakthroughs for patients with GIST

In the past decade, some life-threatening diseases have evolved from being untreatable diseases to chronic conditions with the help of significant medical advances. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, or GIST, are a rare and life-threatening cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. Advances in the treatment of this cancer exemplify the leaps and bounds in scientific innovation and improvements... Read More

Why going gluten-free doesn’t mean going grain-free

It’s impossible to stroll the aisles in your local supermarket without seeing package after package labeled “gluten-free.” But who really needs a gluten-free diet, and how can you still enjoy grains, even if you are eating gluten-free? Gluten is a protein found in just four grains: wheat, barley, rye and triticale, a wheat-rye hybrid. For people with celiac disease... Read More

Senior Health Fair & Walk in the Park

Spend a Day out in the open air in Central Park, next to the Best Years Center in Beaumont. At this mini health fair and senior walk, there will be plenty of vendors, hotdogs and snacks – plus good ole’ Natural Vitamin D Wednesday May 1, 2013; 9 am – Noon And while you are at the health fair, it’s a good time to visit the New Community Center Too! Presented... Read More

Get Fit – Where You Sit

Get Fit Where You Sit ™ Chair Fitness Class This specialty class is for those new to yoga and dance fitness, people seeking stress reduction, elderly, disabled, pregnancy and those in recovery from illness, injury or surgery, overweight or workers who sit at a desk all day! People of all ages and walks of life with arthritis, fibromyalgia, MS, chronic pain are able to participate. Benefits... Read More

FREE Fun with Grand Kids – December Wildcatter Weekend

Southeast Texas Parents need a little time during December to knock out Christmas shopping, wrap presents, and do all the little things they need to before giving your grandkids a perfect Christmas. And your kids have been hogging your grandkids since school started haven’t they?  You deserve a little weekend time with them. The Wildcatter Weekend on December 8 is  a perfect... Read More

Horsin’ Around. FREE Wildcatter Weekend at Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown 11/10

On November 13, 1925, Spindletop produced its second major oil boom when the Yount-Lee Oil Company used new technology to drill on the flanks of Spindletop Hill.  As a result of this discovery – and the wealth that followed, Miles Yount and his wife, Pansy, soon became known as some of the most important breeders of horses in the United States. Gladys City will celebrate this... Read More

SETX Legend: Babe Zaharias

Less than one percent of professional athletes maintain name recognition a decade after they stop playing. Their great deeds fade out of the memories of all but their family and a handful of their biggest fans. Even fewer are ever acknowledged, even fleetingly, as the greatest to ever play their sport. Ask in any bar, barbershop, or sports radio show for the greatest player in any... Read More