IT’S VETERANS DAY…REMEMBER OUR VETERANS…SUPPORT OUR VETERANS…”THANK YOU” TO ALL OUR VETERANS

Dr. Jeffrey Farber, Medical Director and Director of Outpatient Service at Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital affiliated at Delray Medical Center was the second doctor in the “Dr. Is In” series sponsored by the Alliance of Delray to speak at the Vizcaya community Wednesday morning, November 10.

Dr. Farber is a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia College/Columbia University and his Medical Degree from New York Medical College he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and speaks fluent Spanish and Hebrew. His areas of expertise are general, neurologic, geriatric and orthopedic rehabilitation; management of chronic pain, gait and balance disorders and electrodiagnostic studies.

“Pain needs to be viewed form a psycho, social, somatic point of view,” said Dr. Farber. He identified the different types of pain such as bone, arthritis, injury, normal muscle ache after exercise, tendinitis, myopathy, nerve injury, neuropathy, stroke or shingles. He then named the various over the counter medications that we all use such as aspirin, Tylenol type compounds and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and warned that all anti-inflammatories can cause gastro intestinal bleeding in SOME patients. There are new Cox2 type drugs that are much safer, but nothing is perfect.

Physical and occupational therapy can provide exercises to reduce inflammation, restore range of motion, as well as strengthen weakened muscles. Sometimes therapy alone isn’t enough. Patients may need injections and as a last resort—surgery.

He warned that all steroids carry a risk of very rare bone destruction after just a small dose…very unusual, but risk increases with more frequent dosing, usually seen in people on chronic daily dosing or very frequent injections. Neck or cervical injections are always riskier than lumbar or lower back injections.

The Doctor concluded by responding to questions from the audience.

**********************************************************************************************************

CITY OF DELRAY BEACH

Project Holiday Ends November 19th

Items are still being collected for our deployed US military members during the 5th Annual Project Holiday. Sponsored by the City of Delray Beach, “You Are Not Alone”, the Church of the Palms Congregational and “One Soldier at a Time”, Project Holiday collects and ships desperately needed items to our military, who will not be able to come home for the holidays. The community is encouraged to experience the true spirit of the holiday season by contributing to this worthy cause. Donated items will be accepted at various locations around the City and at several locations in Boca Raton through November 19, 2010.

Examples of needed items are: (travel size preferred): Thermoguard pads (heating pads), holiday decorations – All Faiths, bags of hard, individually wrapped candy (i.e., lifesavers, dollar store hard candy – please no chocolates except for tootsie rolls, tootsie roll pops, charm pops, etc), snacks that can easily be put in their pockets while on duty (i.e., fruit cups, peanut butter crackers, etc), gum, beef jerky, Slim Jim, pepperoni or similar dried meats, boxes of granola bars or similar, individual bags of nuts, dried fruit, trail mix or sunflower seeds, boxed and/or individual drink packets (i.e., Crystal Light, Wal-Mart or Target brand, Kool-Aid, hot chocolate, etc), non-perishable food items, foil packed tuna and chicken, crackers, sun block, lip balm, baby wipes (no bigger than 2 1/2″ wide packages), Purell hand sanitizer, hand lotion, batteries (AA or AAA), foot powder, deodorant, toothpaste, socks (white or black knee-hi), nationwide phone cards, disposable cameras, used CD’s, DVD’s (no VHS tapes or cassettes), letters, notes, holiday cards, encouragement cards.

Drop off boxes are located at the following locations:

DELRAY BEACH

Delray Beach City Hall, 100 NW 1st Avenue, Delray Beach

Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 West Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach

Delray Beach Community Center, 50 NW 1st Avenue, Delray Beach

Delray Beach Municipal Golf Course, 2200 Highland Avenue, Delray Beach

Veterans Park, 802 NE 1st Street, Delray Beach

Greater Delray Chamber of Commerce, 64A SE 5th Avenue, Delray Beach

Delray Beach Public Library, 100 West Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach

BOCA RATON

Gabi Gifts, 94 South Federal Highway, Boca Raton

Bernie’s Cleaners, 7300 West Camino Real, Suite 103, Boca Raton

Skin Apeel, 21301 Powerline Road, Boca Raton

To Di For, 7151 North State Road 7, Parkland, Florida

Howards Market & Deli, 6060 SW 18th Street, Boca Raton

Monetary donations to cover postage costs and to purchase calling cards are also appreciated. Send a check or money order made payable to Project Holiday and mail to: City of Delray Beach, c/o Delores Rangel, 100 NW 1st Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444.

If you are a City resident of Delray Beach or Boca Raton with a family member serving overseas and would like a package sent to them or wish to volunteer with packing items to be shipped, contact Delores Rangel at (561) 243-7010. Information on Project Holiday can also be found on the City’s website,

For information on drop off locations in Delray Beach, contact Delores Rangel by phone (561) 243-7010 or email . For information on Boca Raton drop off locations, contact Marla Birman by phone (561) 212-4914 or email at .

“You Are Not Alone” (YANA) is a local group sponsored by the City of Delray Beach that provides encouragement and emotional support to family members and friends of our soldiers. The Church of the Palms Congregational, 1960 N Swinton Avenue, has been instrumental in Project Holiday by collecting items for our troops. “One Soldier at a Time” is a project that supports our deployed military with care packages and words of encouragement.