{"id":5210,"date":"2019-05-02T07:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2019-06-10T07:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:15:02","slug":"physical-therapy-students-host-health-fair-for-east-cheatham-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/05\/02\/physical-therapy-students-host-health-fair-for-east-cheatham-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Therapy Students Host Health Fair for East Cheatham Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Picture1.png\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"PT Students Host Health Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Picture1-696x370.png?size=696x370&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" sizes=\"auto, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 1392px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 1392px, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Picture1-696x370.png 696w, https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Picture1.png 1392w\" alt=\"PT Students Host Health Fair\" width=\"696\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Belmont School of Physical Therapy students recently provided a Health Fair for about 80 elementary students (4<sup>th<\/sup>grade) from East Cheatham Elementary.\u00a0\u00a0The Belmont students spent the semester exploring different roles of the Physical Therapist in Health and Wellness related to topics in Dr. Pat Sells\u2019 class.\u00a0\u00a0The Belmont students then carefully prepared a series of newsletters that addressed such topics as First Aid, Heart Health, Lung\/smoking risks, nutrition and stress management, among others.\u00a0\u00a0These booklets of newsletters are packed with games, puzzles and other challenges to reinforce learning, and each student received the 32 page booklet of information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the PT students prepared a series of activities that were used to reinforce the content within the newsletters.\u00a0First year PT student Diane Smith said, \u201cIt was incredibly rewarding to see the positive impact that we could have on these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This group of DPT students used a porcine lung to demonstrate how human lungs expand and retract, both when lungs are healthy and when they are diseased.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI am never going to smoke,\u201d was heard from the elementary students after seeing the lung demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont School of Physical Therapy students recently provided a Health Fair for about 80 elementary students (4thgrade) from East Cheatham Elementary.\u00a0\u00a0The Belmont students spent the semester exploring different roles of the Physical Therapist in Health and Wellness related to topics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/05\/02\/physical-therapy-students-host-health-fair-for-east-cheatham-elementary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}