Lake Country Weekend Post

OCONOMOWOC — The YMCA at Pabst Farms swim team finished its short course swim season by com- peting in the YMCA state swim championships held March 18 and 19 at the Wal- ter Schroeder Aquatic Cen- ter in Brown Deer. Pabst Farms was one of 22 YMCA teams competing at the meet. Nineteen swim- mers participated in the meet with several achieving individual state qualifying times. Swimmers were from 7 to 17 years old. Of the 57 events held, the team finished among the top 10 in 25 events including: ■ Amanda Jordan who took first in the 200 yard freestyle ■ Payton Sheridan who took second in the 500 yard freestyle ■ Amanda O'Malley who took third in the 200 yard breastroke Top point earners for the team were Amanda Jordan, Samantha Johnston, Aman- da O'Malley, and Sean O'Malley. Head Coach Nathan Zabel said the event was a great way to end the season and was happy to see such suc- cess. The Pabst Farms team finished in the top eight in 25 events, and in 26 events had a best time. This meet marks the end of the short-course swim season. The team will enter into the long-course season beginning in April. HEALTH OCONOMOWOC ENTERPRISE 2 • LAKE COUNTRY POST • APRIL 2, 2016 Shorehaven to host community forum on dementia OCONOMOWOC — An innovative, first-of-its-kind clinic is about to take place in Oconomowoc. Shorehaven is hosting a Dementia Friendly Commu- nity Forum at the Aurora Summit Medical Center, 36500 Aurora Drive. The forum will explore strategies on making Oconomowoc a dementia friendly community, why it is important to do so and how citizens can contribute to the process. The event is free and open to the public. The forum will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It will begin with an infor- mation fair from noon to 1 p.m. A team of experts will address a variety of timely topics about what it means to be dementia friendly. Aurora and ProHealth Care medical professionals will lead the forum. Michael Malone, doctor of geriatric medicine, will pre- sent "Preparing for our future – why should commu- nities care about dementia?" In it, Malone will discuss his belief that citizens are at a crossroads between being prepared and being over- whelmed by a crisis. He'll share how individuals and a community can respond to the public health challenge of dementia care. Julie Wilson, medical director of ProHealth Care Neuroscience Services Trau- matic Brain Injury Clinic, will address how cognitive decline in the aging adult is diagnosed in the inpatient medical rehabilitation set- ting, and how dementia is often overlooked by family and community until a medi- cal event occurs. She will address how physical, occu- pational and speech therapy may help keep patients with dementia functioning in a familiar environment. She will help to clarify miscon- ceptions the public may have regarding brain injury and concussions in the elderly. Physicians will also be on hand to present the latest dementia research, symp- toms and outcomes and pro- vide some examples of how communities are rising to meet the challenges of dementia related issues. Space is limited so regis- tration is required. To regis- ter, e-mail sueek@msn.com. For questions or concerns call 262-490-0868. — Enterprise Staff Overuse injury trends disturbing no matter age By Eric Oliver Enterprise Staff OCONOMOWOC — As the weather starts to warm and people get more active, experts suggest taking time to properly warm up and ramp up intensity to avoid overuse injuries. The Enterprise spoke to Mara Robichaud, a physical therapist and supervisor at the Aurora Medical Center in Summit, about how to avoid overuse injuries and trends she is seeing in her medical field. Robichaud said the key to avoiding overuse injuries is to properly ramp up athletic training and to warm up before any sort of physical activity. If a person is just getting into an activity for the first time, Robichaud suggested utilizing the services of an athletic trainer of a physi- cal therapist to properly work toward conditioning those muscles. She stressed the importance of core work and flexibility to pre- pare the muscles for the increased workload associ- ated with physical activity. Some common overuse injuries Robichaud sees often are strains and sprains to ligaments, stress fractures, joint inflamma- tion and contusions. All of which are signs that people may not have the proper athletic conditioning. Robichaud had some tips for the beginning athlete. She said to always make sure they're taking the time to properly warm up, to slowly work into an activity and increase the heart rate at a slow but steady pace. Finally, she stressed the importance of taking time off from performing the pri- mary activity to do some cross training to work dif- ferent muscle groups. She said if you're seeing tender- ness, swelling or pain in the joints that lingers for more than 24 hours to seek medi- cal attention because those are the symptoms of overuse injuries. The repetition of working the same muscles over and over again is particularly alarming to Robichaud in one specific population: adolescents. "I've been a physical ther- apist for 20 years," Robichaud said. "The injuries I'm seeing now and the past five years, we never saw 10 and 15 years ago." Robichaud said the sud- den rash of dangerous, repetitive injuries can be attributed to adolescents becoming true one-sport athletes and playing the game year round. She cited the game of baseball as one that is especially problemat- ic. She said doctors are see- ing an increase of Tommy John surgeries — a proce- dure in which an elbow liga- ment is replaced by a ten- don taken from elsewhere in the body — in adoles- cents because high pitch loads, sometimes greater than that of a Major League player, are happening before high school. "When you're 12 years old you shouldn't be having a Tommy John surgery," Robichaud said. "That's what's truly happening." Robichaud is a mother and has two children who participate in youth athlet- ics and she cherishes the benefits the children get out of playing and participat- ing in sports, but she's urg- ing parents to take proac- tive measures in helping their child manage their workload in baseball or any sport. "I think what parents need to think about is how is their child going to feel when they're in their 30s, 40s and 50s and are need- ing total joint replacements younger than anyone has?" Robichaud said. Robichaud said the hospi- tal is currently seeing total joint replacement surgeries increase in Baby Boomers. The statistics paint an alarming picture. In the U.S. there are more than 3 million new cases of repeti- tive strains a year and more than 3.5 million children under the age of 13 are hurt because of participation in recreational athletics. Robichaud said even the small injuries like tearing a meniscus or repetitively spraining an ankle are the beginning of a life lived with injury management. "Sports are great and I want my kids to enjoy them and learn from them but there's a future, too," Robichaud said. "There's something about building a kid up instead of wearing a kid down." Services offered Aurora offers several ser- vices throughout the main hospital including a run- ner's clinic and a free injury diagnostic clinic. The medical staff will diag- nosis and work on prelimi- nary treatment options for free for 30 minutes. For more information or to schedule an appointment call 262-434-2600. Email: eoliver@conleynet.com Robichaud The Enterprise wants to publish your health news, including new locations, innovative practices, expansions and cutting edge ideas. We'd like to hear from doctors, therapists, athletic trainers, teachers — or anyone with a finger on the pulse of the Oconomowoc health community. Please send health news items and photos to eoliver@conleynet.com Submitted photo The YMCA at Pabst Farms swim team from front left, Tyler Hartmann, Adam Anderson, Francesca Smith, Matthew Jacobs and Gabrielle Visconi. Middle, left Madison Kane, Amanda O'Malley, Sophie Banik, Shaelyn Rutta, Samantha Johnston, Abbey Lesniak and Alexis Craft. Back, left Coach Jordon Momsen, Coach Sue Visconti, Amanda Jordan, Brady Basile, Hope Weil, Payton Sheridan, Sean O'Malley and Head Coach Nathan Zabel. Pabst Farms swim team finishes short season, prepares for long CALENDAR "Signs of Spring," artists Michelle Freuck, Ann Windell and Connie Pelzek, April 1 to May 15, Almont Gallery, 342 W. Main St., Waukesha. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fri- days, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur- days, noon to 4 p.m. Sun- days. www.almont gallery .com. 2016 MIAD Senior Exhibition, April 15 through May 14, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 13 Pre- view Night. Women, Nature, Sci- ence: Kim Cridler, The Descriptive Line, through June 5, Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 W. Brown Deer Road, River Hills. Cridler will have an artist talk at 1:30 p.m. May 27. Lynden is closed on Thursdays and March 27. $9 general admis- sion, $7 for students, free for members and children under 6. www.lyndensculp- turegarden.org, 414-446- 8794. Nick Offerman, author of "Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers," 8 p.m. April 7, Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave., Mil- waukee. $20. www.pabstthe- ater.org, 414-286-3663. Tuesday evening book group, 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. second Tuesday of each month, Hales Corners Pub- lic Library, 5885 S. 116th St. 414-529-6150 or www.hale- scornerslibrary.org. Forest Ridge book group, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. second Tuesday of each month, Hales Corners Pub- lic Library, 5885 S. 116th St. 414-529-6150 or www.hale- scornerslibrary.org. Writers Ink, 7 p.m. first and third Mondays of the month for critiquing for publication, workshops and writing-related speakers, 4702 S. Packard Ave., Cud- ahy. 414-744-9644 or visit www.writersinc.writernet- work.com. Waukesha Writers' Workshop, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. third Monday of each month, Brookfield Highlands Senior Apart- ments, 20825 George Hunt Circle, Town of Brookfield. 262- 679-0862. Milwaukee Rebels Swing Dance Club, begin- ners West Coast swing les- son, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., intermediate, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, and April 10, April 24, 2499 S. Delaware Ave., Milwaukee, no partner required, $12 each. With $30 membership fee receive free beginner swing lessons for a year. Open dancing, second and fourth Wednesday of the month, 818 S. Water St., Mil- waukee. $5. Open dance 8:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday, preceded by hourlong swing workshop, $4 for beginner and $8 for intermediate; preceded by lessons at 7:30 p.m. April 16, Casa di Danza, 21415 W. Greenfield Ave., New Berlin. 414-870- 5535. www.milwau- keerebels.com. Scottish Country Dancers, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Brookfield Public Library Community Room, 1900 Cal- houn Road, Brookfield. Cel- ebrate Scottish American Heritage Month by seeing the Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers. 262-782- 4140, option 1, for questions. Vagabond Ski & Social Club, music by The Tom Anthony Band, meeting at 7 p.m., dance at 8 p.m. Wednesday, WG's Banquet Center, 3200 S. 103rd St., at Oklahoma Avenue, Milwau- kee. The active social club is for singles and married cou- ples. $5 admission. www.vagabondskiclub.com. Rich Regent, 11:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Mil- waukee Public Market, 400 N. Water St., Milwaukee. Free. 414-336-1111 or www.milwaukeepublicmar- ket.org. Meat Loaf, 8 p.m. Sunday, Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. $45.50 and up. www.pab- sttheater.org, 414-286-3663. The Music of Lead Belly featuring Bob Estes, Ives & Mike Company, PK Harmony, and Ruth Williams and Sandy Stehling, 8 p.m. Saturday, The Coffee House, 631 N. 19th St., Milwaukee. $4 sug- gested donation plus two cans of food. www.the-cof- fee-house.com, 414-534-4612. Open Acoustic Jam hosted by Alyssia Dominguez, Myles Wan- gerin, & Mike Krug, 8 p.m. to midnight April 7, Bucky's Lakeside Pub & Grill, N50-W35016 Wiscon- sin Ave., Town of Oconomowoc. August Burns Red, and Between the Buried and Me, 6:30 p.m. April 8, The Rave, 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. $21.50. 414- 342-7283, www.therave.com. Ani DiFranco, 8 p.m. April 8, Turner Hall, 1040 N. Fourth St., Milwaukee. $35. www.pabsttheater.org or 414-286-3663. Group Therapy, 8 p.m. to midnight April 8, Bucky's Lakeside Pub & Grill, N50- W35016 Wisconsin Ave., Town of Oconomowoc. Mozart's "Jupiters," Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conductor Courtney Lewis, 8 p.m. April 8 and April 9, 2:30 p.m. April 10, Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St., Milwaukee. From $16.25. 414-291-7605, www.mso.org. August Burns Red, and Between the Buried and Me, 6:30 p.m. April 8, The Rave, 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. $21.50. 414- 342-7283, www.therave.com. Ani DiFranco, 8 p.m. April 8, Turner Hall, 1040 N. Fourth St., Milwaukee. $35. www.pabsttheater.org or 414-286-3663. "American Song," through April 10, The Mil- waukee Repertory Theater, 108 E. Wells St., Milwaukee. $20 and up. 414-224-9490, www.milwaukeerep.com. "Dido & Aeneas," by University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Opera Theatre and UWM Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. (6:45 p.m. pre-show talks) Friday and Saturday, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee. Nonper- ishable food items taken. $20; $15 seniors, UWM facul- ty and staff, $10 students. www.arts.uwm.edu/tickets, 414-229-4308. Old Blind Dogs, dynamic Scottish roots revival band, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. $21, $25 day of concert, $10 students with ID. 414-345-8800, www.ichc.net. "Once," Tuesday through April 10, Uihlein Hall Mar- cus Center, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee. $35 and up. 414- 273-7206, www.marcuscen- ter.org. Jay Leno, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. April 7, Northern Lights Theater, 1721 W. Canal St., Milwaukee. $85 to $100. www.paysbig.com or 800-PAYSBIG. "Cinderella's Fella," by the ACAP Players, April 7 through April 10, Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. $10 adults. 262-547-0708 www.wauke- shacivictheatre.org. Tyler Perry's Madea On the Run, April 8 and April 9, Milwaukee Theatre, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave., Milwau- kee. 414-908-6001, www.mil- waukeetheatre.com. World Refugees – A Clash of Cultures, 11 a.m. April 10, May 1, Sept. 25, Oct. 9 and Nov. 6, Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 36821 Sunset Drive (Highway 18, one mile west of Highway 67), Dous- man. Six-part series on the conceptions and miscon- ceptions of domestic immi- gration worldwide flight. Ben Shryrock, a Milwaukee immigration attorney, will speak at the first session. Register at www.seeyouon- sunday.org or 262-965-4022. "Front Lines" speaker series, 10:30 a.m. Sundays, Oakwood Church, 3041 Oak- wood Road, Delafield. 262- 367-1212 or tracy@oakwood- now.org. Free lectures to improve your life through creative use of your mind, 11 a.m. Sun- days, Spiritual Living Cen- ter of Greater Milwaukee, Marian Center for Non- profits, 3211 S. Lake Drive, Milwaukee. 414-327-7849 or visit www.rsgm.net. Al Anon meetings, 7 p.m. Mondays, Fox River Congregational Church Parish House, N34-W23575 Capitol Drive, City of Pewaukee. 262-695-9695. Divorced and separated support group, 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Tuesdays, First Congregational Church, 100 E. Broadway, Waukesha. 262-547-5567. Tripoli Shrine Circus, Friday through Monday, UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, 400 W. Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee. www.tick- etmaster.com, Rummage and Book Sale, 9 am. to 4 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, St. John the Evangelist Parish gym, 8500 W. Cold Spring Road, Greenfield. Spon- sored by the Christian Women Society. 414-321- 1965. "Vertical Gardening" by Marilynn Cech, South Shore Garden Club, 6 p.m. Monday, social, then pro- gram, Grace Presbyterian Church, 2931 S. Kinnickin- nic Ave., Milwaukee. Visi- tors welcome. Susan McDonell, 414-747-0139. Garden District Garden Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Custom Grown, 4507 S. 6th St. Topic: Container Planting and Kid's Planting. Bring a pot or buy one from Custom Grown. Plants available for purchase. Custom Grown will supply soil and take care of the plant until Mother's Day or Memorial Day for free. Card social, doors open at 5:30 p.m. April 8, St. Flo- rian School cafeteria, 1215 S. 45th St., West Milwaukee. Card playing from 6 p.m. to midnight. $12 donation; free beer, soda, coffee and a hot meal. Elevator available. 414-383-3565. Family Fun Carnival, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 8, Savior Lutheran School and Church, 1205 S. East Ave., Waukesha. Games, face painting and vendors such as Thirty-One, Sunset Pop- corn, Jamberry, and Taste- fully Simple. Food and prizes. All proceeds help support the local school. All Writers' Workplace & Workshop Spring Fri- day Night Free For All, doors open at 6 p.m., event at 7 p.m. April 8, Caf} De Arts, 830 W. St. Paul Ave., Waukesha. Readings of poetry, short stories, novels and memoir. Guest reader is Lisa Marie Brodsky of Evansville, author of Motherlung and other works. Rummage and craft show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 9, 2860 W. Kinnickinnic Ave., Bay View area of Mil- waukee. Fundraiser for George Washington Ameri- can Legion Post 180 to help support children and youth programs. Items include jewelry, clothes, treasures. 32nd annual Spring Fishing Clinics for Kids, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 9, 11 Milwaukee County Park lagoons. Free, hands-on clinics feature knot tying, safe use of fishing equip- ment and instruction on proper fishing techniques. Families with fishing equipment are asked to bring it. The 11 parks are: Brown Deer, Dineen, Grant- Oak Creek, Greenfield, Humboldt, McCarty, McGovern, Mitchell, Scout Lake (wheelchair accessi- ble), Sheridan, Washington (wheelchair accessible) and Wilson Park. For more information, or for groups of 20 or more, call the DNR at 414-303-0109. Woodcocks and Wood Frogs, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. April 9, Wehr Nature Cen- ter, 9701 W. College Ave., Franklin. The program highlights the mating dance and other habits of the American woodcock. Regis- ter by April 8. 414-425-8550. $10 fee, $7 for Milwaukee County residents, $5 for members of Friends of Wehr; $3 parking. Ultimate Dinosaurs, fea- turing 20 newly discovered breeds of dinosaurs, through May 15, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St., Milwaukee. www.mpm.edu/ultimatedi- nosaurs. Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. Sundays, 839 N. 11th St., Milwaukee. $5 adults, $4 seniors and students, free for children under 6. 414- 273-1680 or www.chudnow- museum.org. Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. first and third Sundays of each month, 1075 Pilgrim Parkway, Brookfield. $5 adults, $2 children ages 6 through 12, $3 seniors, free for children 5 and under. www.elmbrookhistoricalso- ciety.org. Betty Brinn Children's Museum, hands-on muse- um for children 10 and younger and their families, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays, 929 E. Wis- consin Ave., Milwaukee. $5 per person or free for muse- um members and children 1 and younger. 414-291-0888.

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