A man goes to the doctor and says to the doctor:
"It hurts when I press here" (pressing his side)
"And when I press here" (pressing the other side)
"And here" (his leg)
"And here, here and here" (his other leg, and both arms)

So the doctor examined him all over and finally discovered what was wrong... "You've got a broken finger!

Haha!

Hope some of our Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, and Speech Language Pathologist put that to use today in their facilities.

 

Hello travelers! Here at MDI Medical, we have several allied health jobs all across the United States. One particular location is San Diego, CA. We currently have PT, OT, and SLP needs in one of our facilities in San Diego. San Diego is a very desirable location for your next travel therapy job. And why wouldn’t it be? There’s plenty of fun and sun! Here are some activities you might want to consider while on your OT, PT, or SLP assignment in SoCal:

Top 10 Things to do in San Diego

• San Diego Zoo: World famous, and deservedly so.
• Wild Animal Park: Animals in large, open spaces, the next best thing to a safari.
• La Jolla Charming, romantic seaside town. Go for shopping, galleries or tide pool-hopping.
• Tijuana: The most popular border town is a short trolley ride away.
• Harbor Cruise: San Diego has a long-standing maritime heritage and a beautiful skyline, and you can enjoy them both from a boat.
• Balboa Park and Museums: America's largest urban cultural park has more than 25 museums and attractions from astronomical to horticultural.
• Old Town: Mexican restaurants and historic tours in the city's oldest neighborhood.
• Sea World: Shamu and her buddies perform daily.
• Coronado: Home to the elegant Hotel Del Coronado and one of the best beaches in the country.
• The Beach: With seventy miles of sand and surf, there's plenty of space away from the other San Diego attractions.

I wanted to let everyone know that I currently have several Physical Therapy openings in and around the Seattle area. I have needs in both hospitals and within outpatient clinics. All of these opportunities are for 13 week contracts, with the possibility of extensions.

If you have never been to Seattle, I recommend checking it out for your next assignment. This is one of my favorite cities...it is filled with amazing restaurants, a great night life, and best of all- lots of coffee!! To be submitted to these positions call me today!


Thank You & have a wonderful weekend!
Melissa Gabriel
866-518-1750 Ext. 2319

 

I wanted to dedicate my blog this week to volunteer work. As most of us know, everyone is hurting right now. But even in our times of struggle sometimes the best thing we can do is reach out and help other people. So physical, occupational, and speech therapists traveling to all areas of the United States gives you a truely unique opportunity to volunteer and help in so many ways. Whether your on an allied travel assignment in Louisianna, California, Florida, or Colorado the possibilities are endless for volunteer work. I was reading an article on Yahoo yesterday that actually spoke about Volunteering leading to pay, and we all know any extra money is always a good thing. I have posted the video below for anyone who is interested!

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/;_ylt=AoJfwL4FI7nP0qHlZTOGzLwazJV4?rn=3906861&cl=12638419&ch=4226720&src=news

So physical, occupational, and speech therapists get involved in your new community today and volunteer to help others! You never know what can come out of giving your time to help others!

Also, don't forget to reach out to MDI Medical's website to search for your next occupational therapy job, speech language pathology job, physical therapy job, or any allied health job in between! Thanks again for reading and I hope this motivates all of our traveling therapists out there to get up and volunteer on their next allied travel assignment!

Ashley Iero
Account Manager
MDI Medical- Soon to be *Cirrus Allied Staffing*

City Spotlight Grass Valley, California

This week the City Spotlight is in Grass Valley, California and we have tons of physical therapy jobs, occupational therapy jobs and speech pathology jobs.

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Grass Valley, population 12,000, offers great weather, natural beauty, and a relaxed lifestyle.

With great restaurants, a wide variety of entertainment and shopping opportunities, and quaint B&Bs, Grass Valley is a great place to visit.

Attractions

California World Music Festival-four days of continuous music from around the world.

The Imaginarium of Nevada County is an interactive science center in Nevada City, California. Modeled after the San Francisco Exploratorium, it is a resource for hands on science, nature, and technology experiences for local residents and visitors to our community

Nevada County Fair

Wineries-hand-crafted, mountain grown wines is the perfect escape for a weekend.

Information can be found by going to http://www.downtownnevadacounty.com/index.html and http://www.ncgold.com

For those physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists seeking a new adventure consider a travel assignment in Grass Valley, CA.

We have several positions for physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists.

Daniela Hunter

Cirrus Allied Staffing travelers if you are interested in a position in Southern Alabama; we have the perfect opportunity for you. We have a opportunity for a Speech Therapy jobs in Opp, AL that is a great city near the gulf coast. Opp is only an hour from the coast and has great schools if you travel with your children. They also have reasonable real estate properties for you to rent or purchase. The population is around 6,500, and Opp is close enough to the city to enjoy all the attractions available but also small enough to meet some great friends. Opp has state parks that you can visit to go camping, fishing or hiking if you like the outdoors and they have an annual festival the first weekend of April each year, Rattlesnake Rodeo. The Rattlesnake Rodeo is an arts and crafts festival that offers a songwriting competition that offers lots of good food and good music. So while you are working in Opp for your Speech Therapy jobs, you can find an array of activites to keep you busy in your free time. So Cirrus Allied Staffing travelers, call today if you are interested in your next assignment in Opp.

Jenna Williams
Account Manager

 I Love You, Man, a new comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

Of course, the story is still predictable. Peter Klaven (Rudd) is a great boyfriend without any friends. When Klaven overhears his new fiancé (Rashida Jones) and her friends worrying about his lack of guy pals, he goes on a mission to find a best friend and best man for his wedding.

I’m pretty sure you can guess the rest — a comical group of failed friendships leads right to Sydney Fife (Segal), the friend of Klaven’s dreams, and the two engage in a series of hilarious hi-jinks together. Like I said, it’s a predictable story but it works for two reasons.

1. Director John Hamburg and writer Larry Levin tell a real story. It’s predictable, but it’s something that could have actually happened to your cousin’s friend’s co-worker who actually almost vomited in some guy’s face and then exaggerated the story over time. It’s funny. It’s just a real, predictable, funny story.
2. Rudd and Segel completely nail it. Rudd plays the calm, quirky guy who reminds you of someone you know, cool but a bit socially awkward. Segel, meanwhile, plays off of it perfectly by being a slightly over-the-top but totally lovable wild guy.

And while the supporting cast were mostly overshadowed by Rudd and Segel, there were a few performances worth mentioning. Rashida Jones is great as Rudd’s conflicted fiancé, in her first major film role, and Andy Samberg doesn’t overdo it as Rudd’s gay, body-building brother. And who can forget Lou Ferrigno’s stunning performance as himself? In fact, the supporting cast played their roles perfectly by staying out of the way, something that seems surprisingly hard to do.

But as these two strong characters begin to build their friendship, the dialogue does take a turn toward the kind of conversation you’d expect to hear in a garage known as “The Man Cave”. But if you’ve made it through an episode of The Family Guy lately, you shouldn’t worry. I Love You, Man is far less ridiculous and a whole lot funnier.

As a friend of mine described it, I Love You, Man is a romantic comedy for guys. And it’s true, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s the best comedy of the year so far.

So remember just because you are in travel therapy jobs doesn't mean you cant stop to enjoy a movie!

Brooke Roebuck
Onboarding Specialist

Do you often wonder if what you are doing daily will help or hurt your changes of living longer? Well, all you traveling therapists take a look at the 13 signs you'll probably live longer than you think (www.health.msn.com):

1. Your mom had you young
If she was under age 25, you're twice as likely to live to 100 as someone born to an older mom, according to University of Chicago scientists. They suspect that younger moms' best eggs go first to fertilization, thus producing healthier offspring.
2. You're a tea lover
Both green and black teas contain a concentrated dose of catechins, substances that help blood vessels relax and protect your heart. In a study of more than 40,500 Japanese men and women, those who drank five or more cups of green tea every day had the lowest risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. Other studies involving black tea showed similar results.
3. You’d rather walk
"Fit" people—defined as those who walk for about 30 minutes a day—are more likely to live longer than those who walk less, regardless of how much body fat they have, according to a recent study of 2,603 men and women. Similarly, overweight women can improve their heart health by adding just 10 minutes of activity to their daily routine, says recent research.
4.You skip soda (even diet)
Scientists in Boston found that drinking one or more regular or diet colas every day doubles your risk of metabolic syndrome—a cluster of conditions, including high blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, and excess fat around the waist, that increase your chance of heart disease and diabetes.
5. You have strong legs
Lower-body strength translates into good balance, flexibility, and endurance. As you get older, those attributes are key to reducing your risk of falls and injuries—particularly hip fractures, which often quickly lead to declining health. Up to 20 percent of hip-fracture patients die within one year because of complications from the trauma. "Having weak thigh muscles is the number-one predictor of frailty in old age," says Robert Butler, M.D., president of the International Longevity Center–USA in New York City.
6. You eat purple food
Concord grapes, blueberries, red wine: They all get that deep, rich color from polyphenols—compounds that reduce heart disease risk and may also protect against Alzheimer's disease, according to the new research. Polyphenols help keep blood vessels and arteries flexible and healthy.
7.You were a healthy-weight teen
A study in the Journal of Pediatrics that followed 137 African Americans from birth to age 28 found that being overweight at age 14 increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adulthood. Adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to develop heart disease than those without the condition, according to the American Heart Association.
8.You don't like burgers
A few palm-size servings (about 2 1/2 ounces) of beef, pork, or lamb now and then is no big deal, but eating more than 18 ounces of red meat per week ups your risk of colorectal cancer—the third most common type, according to a major report by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Colorectal cancer risk also rises by 42 percent with every 3 1/2-ounce serving of processed meat (such as hot dogs, bacon, and deli meats) eaten per day, the report determined.
9. You’ve been a college freshman
A recent Harvard Medical School study found that people with more than 12 years of formal education (even if it's only one year of college) live 18 months longer than those with fewer years of schooling. Why? The more education you have, the less likely you are to smoke. In fact, only about 10 percent of adults with an undergraduate degree smoke, compared with 35 percent of those with a high school education or less, according to the CDC.
10. You really like your friends …
"Good interpersonal relationships act as a buffer against stress," says Micah Sadigh, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Cedar Crest College. Knowing you have people who support you keeps you healthy, mentally and physically: Chronic stress weakens the immune system and ages cells faster, ultimately shortening life span by 4 to 8 years, according to one study.
11.… and they're healthy
If your closest friends gain weight, your chance of doing the same could increase by 57 percent, according to a study in the New England of Journal of Medicine. "To maintain a healthy lifestyle, it's important to associate with people who have similar goals," says Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., the study's lead researcher.
12. You don't have a housekeeper
Just by vacuuming, mopping floors, or washing windows for a little more than an hour, the average person can burn about 285 calories, lowering risk of death by 30 percent, according to a study of 302 adults in their 70s and 80s.
13. You’re a flourisher
About 17 percent of Americans are flourishers, says a study in American Psychologist. They have a positive outlook on life, a sense of purpose and community, and are healthier than "languishers"—about 10 percent of adults who don't feel good about themselves.

All you physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologist take some time away from your rehabilitation jobs to make these thirteen signs part of your everyday life. Who knows, it might make you live longer and be able to take your next travel therapy job with MDI Medical. Call us today!

Megan Stecher

MDI Medical

678-993-2300