Nancy Weinbeck
Bayview’s commitment to healthy aging is evident in our recent partnership with Byrony Treser, PT, DPT, and her company, Revolution Wellness and Therapy, an outpatient clinic operating on Bayview’s campus. Byrony is a physical therapist with over 12 years of experience specializing in geriatric health. I’ve asked Byrony to shed light on the innovative methodology that she and her team bring to the Bayview community:
Our bodies are wondrous and complex, no matter our abilities or physical or mental presentation. As a physical therapist, my goal is to empower people to learn about our bodies and different ways to move so that we can live expansively and joyfully, as well as experience healthy aging. We set ourselves up for healthy aging when we join in community, when we have opportunities to engage in holistic practices that address mind, body, and spirit, and when we utilize both preventative and rehabilitative strategies that allow us to live our best lives.
Through our partnership with Bayview, we provide opportunities for Bayview residents to explore movement, challenge their bodies, and learn about personal health management. Our wellness program addresses multiple domains of health, incorporating strength, power, endurance, flexibility, and balance into the curriculum. The program includes water-based fitness classes, wellness and mindfulness seminars, strength and cardiovascular group classes, fall prevention, and dance and movement classes. The class structure is variable and dynamic but built on scientific and evidence-based principles to impact healthy changes to the neuromusculoskeletal systems. Wellness classes are taught by professionals with a background in exercise science and/or physical therapy and can be modified to meet the needs of the participants including reducing pain, addressing neurological conditions, or working within a person’s available range of motion. We are intentional in our design to provide people with the support and accessibility they need to be successful across all abilities and capacities, including neurological presentations or chronic disease.
Sometimes, people need interventions to address impairments or deficits that impact their mobility, ability to perform daily tasks, or ways they communicate or understand information. Revolution Wellness and Therapy offers an onsite multidisciplinary approach of physical and occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology, using one-to-one treatments to help people recover, restore, and improve function, manage pain, or develop adaptations and compensations to improve their quality of life.
Bayview and Revolution Wellness and Therapy are in the planning stages to reopen our wellness programs to the greater community for individuals 62 years of age and older. We look forward to transforming the experience of aging and sharing in the power of joyful movement together as a community, no matter where you are on your health journey.