hi i'm danny pryor and welcome to spotlight on pittsburgh spotlight on pittsburgh is a program about pittsburgh the most fascinating people and what they do to make our city an amazing place to live and work when we come back to introduce you to sven lynch owner of pittsburgh therapy who will bring you top notch care right here front door later on we'll bring you carrie clifford spokesperson and corporate dietitian for fresh time market until we found the connection you have the power to change your child's life the boy's town national hotline can  help hi and welcome back to spotlight on pittsburgh's ben so nice to have you here today thank you for having me man you know how to be here luke lee so what can you tell me about pittsburgh concierge therapy so pittsburgh concierge therapy is a very unique physical therapy practice it's unlike any physical therapy practice that you would go to down the street because i come to you whether that's at your home that's the most common place where i see people but i see people in all kinds of different creative locations which makes it a really incredible experience so for instance i've worked with a child at a playground  before just working on playground skills i've worked with a soccer league when they were already on a soccer field i have worked with a cross fit athlete in their crossword gyms so it gives me a lot of flexibility to meet people wherever they want to give them the right kind of care and so what kind of care you're offering so i'm a physical therapist so what that means is i will evaluate someone and look to see where they're having problems with generally movement but it could often be from some sort of injury or illness and i just try to figure out what they want to try to get back to doing and i try to help them get to that point and you is it something that's recommended through your doctor or is it something that you you know some people just know they need on their own how how are you getting people to your door it can work both ways so people can get a referral from their physician after they've had some sort of injury or for physical therapy and then they can give me a call or if someone feels like they just aren't able to do the things that they want to do and they know about my services they can call me directly and i can work with them for thirty days in the state of pennsylvania before i have a physician's prescription but i was often do all the legwork to get that prescription and then we can just keep on going and so what is your background what got you into physical therapy so i was in the navy for eight years after college and i had a undergraduate degree in biology but it got to the point where i realized i wanted to have a navy just to be able to be around my family and raise my kids so i started really thinking about what i wanted to do in physical therapy was just a good fit because it would allow me to continue to serve people but on a much more personal one to one level and so you've seen you see all different age groups is there any specialty that your you go after idea so i am a board certified as a neurologic clinical specialist and what that means is does that mean that i had a lot of experience working with people that have had some sort of neurological trauma or under a logical illness and then after that point time after a lot of studying i sat for a very rigorous board examination that was six hours long and fortunately i passed so i just mean i have this special qualification that allows me to work really well with individuals who have had things like a stroke or traumatic brain injury concussions spinal cord injury things like that and before you kind of set institute i've also worked for you can see for a short time but all that training really allowed me to get a lot of skills i love working with kids and still do in my practice but it has allowed me to work with a wide variety of like you said throughout the age range age range and people with all kinds of different things going on and so you know what's the best way for somebody to find out if you're right fit for them that's a really good question what i offer is a free consultation so if people are hearing about my services but they're not sure if it's a good fit i will go to them and sit with them and talk to them for thirty minutes no charge no harm no foul if they decide not to work with me but just hear what's going on with them and then i'll tell them what i think and if i think we're a good fit for each other and what direction i would want to go in during a valuation and maybe some different treatment options that we could  explore and so you know what what can you suggest if a patient is you know has suffered from a neurological problem you know what can they do to improve their lives on their own as well as seeking you know improvement through your services sure i think the most important thing for anybody whether it's a neurological injury whatever it is just find what you like to do try to do it and if you're having problems with it seek seek some help but really it's just about trying to still move in whatever that means for the individual and for some people i work with some people just on the act of trying to stand up from a chair and so that can be something on one end of the spectrum where as i can be working with people to get back to doing high level athletics and everything in between i work with a lot of people in the forty to fifty year old range too for people that have been active their whole lives but then i've had some sort of injury and now they can't be as physically active as they want to be and that can have a huge cascade on their holes in the years to come if they never get back to that same level of activity so i try to help them get that and what is the moment you are most proud of since you've been started the context therapy program i have always thought of my role from the back in the days when i was working at the churns institute that one of my biggest roles is to help people walk whether it's for the first time or again after an injury and just being able to have patients both in my practice now where i've helped people walk  amazing that must be an incredible feeling rewarding and so if you you've had all these people who use helped and you know where do you see that practice in five years a question that i've started to play around with the idea what i ever have another physical therapist helping me or maybe therapists of other disciplines whether it's an occupational therapy or speech therapist so those are maybe some long range plans  enjoying helping people on a one to one basis and in their space and the thing that i love about it too that different differentiates the practice from other physical therapy clinics is when you go to another physical therapy clinic for the therapist are so busy they might see twenty patients in a day or more so they have to divide their time just like physicians nowadays where you only get ten minutes ten minutes fifteen minutes with a doctor or physical therapist sometimes if you're lucky but i get to spend a full sixty minutes every treatment session and for my evaluation i spend two hours generally speaking with patients and that gives me so much more time to listen to what's going on and observe the way that they move and that has the impact of changing the way that i would approach their care and it reduces the number of times that have to see them many times and so going i should say going back to or doing something by going to their homes that was very widely popular a long time ago and then now everybody goes to hospitals and they go to clinics what made you decide that the going to homes is the right thing for you health care has become so complicated and when i was thinking about starting my own practice i wanted to be as simple as possible and i thought what is the most simple way to deliver care and you're right it's getting back to that old fashioned house call and going to someone treating them in their space which is very personal i mean so many different businesses advertise we put a person this is so personal country and it is incredibly come from a company you wouldn't believe the number of people that i meet that never step foot into a doctor's office are turned off by hospitals but they need care and they see care and they're really happy with the services that i can provide in their space and so you know is there anything else that i haven't touched on that you would like to elaborate on about your services you care you yourself what i really like about my practice is that it affords me flexibility can help me do things that i was never able to do within the walls of a clinic i've been able to go with patients and accompany them to a doctor's appointment or to an appointment where they're getting a brace fit so that i can collaborate with those other medical professionals on the spot to make sure that we're coming up with the best plan possible wonderful well that sounds great and i  you know i sincerely hope that everybody out there is listening and looks up your practice and at least tries out a free consultation thanks so much you're welcome thank you so much ben to find out more about pittsburgh concierge therapy please go to p g a concierge com sometimes it's hard to see where you're going but you have the power to change your problems all it takes is your life your and welcome back carrie thank you so much for coming on today thanks for having you're not even from here know which makes it even better but what is here now is fresh time so i guess we're going to have to start out by asking what is fresh times so we're a grocery store and we like to think of ourselves as the spirit of a weekend farmer's market with the convenience of your neighborhood grocery store we opened our first store about four years ago in illinois which is where we're headquartered and we're up to seventy stores in eleven states wow so you have rapidly expanded yes and you just recently today right yep today is the opening for two new locations in the pittsburgh area yeah can you tell us a little bit more about those locations yeah so one in bridgeville and one unpleasant hills and up five o'clock this morning i was at the store and we opened up our doors i think we had about four hundred people in line at the bridgeville location  was packed so really we're running great sales for twelve weeks and it's the best day to shop on wednesdays those ads overlap and all kinds of good deals for produce of course meats and seafood we have like four hundred  with nuts and seeds a food service bar with a pizza station and sandwiches a grocery department with tons of different types of milks and then also vitamins and body care so really optimizing that healthy lifestyle that sounds fantastic and so what what makes you different what makes you your new grocery store that people are in a civil year with what set you apart from the competition yes so the grocer all this competitive i know they're popping up all over the place  really fresh time pride ourselves on bringing freshness for everyone at affordable prices so you shouldn't have to give up your whole paycheck to eat healthy and buy fresh things that are from local and in season so really also what differentiate us is how bright our store is so sixty percent of our store is produce and fresh food so really it's it's a bright light and greet in environment and we make the aisles you know close so that you feel comfortable shopping in an easy to reach things and then also what's great is we have a smaller footprint so about twenty eight thousand square feet in our stores so not like your hundred thousand square foot big box grocery store so not a lot of choices you know when someone's looking for a pasta sauce they don't need to have ten choices you know maybe only three or five choices can help you you know narrow down the nitrogen and when they're like and so you offer you know general foods as well as can you tell me a little bit about that yeah so we are trying to meet anyone on their health journey so whether you're someone that eats fast food all the time and you're not even eating a fruit or vegetable or someone who's living a  completely healthy lifestyle whether that side gluten free or heart healthy or paleo we have all types of different items for people on different diets so we do have a large amount of organic items a few thousand and especially produce but then of course dairy meats bread grow grocery items supplement so really we meet everyone's needs that's wonderful especially you know how things are today there's i don't know if it's more allergies or  very apparent that you know a lot of people are suffering from different foods and different things to eat so it's great you're offering all of that and is there anything else that makes you different than the other stores in the area yeah i would say our team members are just friendly and excited to be there and i would say that we are constantly offering unique and fun items so if you you know stop in our stores you might find something you've never seen elsewhere an example is you know  know these are things that are like soy sauce but made from coconut so people who don't eat soy can eat it oh yeah so really just unique items i would say is one of our biggest claims to fame is i get to go to a conference every year that's thousands of new food items i know there was just crickets that were out there you know in granola bars so really cool items that we're really trying to bring to the midwest and to pennsylvania and you know pittsburgh has its own cit have our own private label line about fifteen hundred items that are our own brand that are actually made by other manufacturers so our waffles actually if you go to our store in our frozen cooler actually made in pennsylvania we have several different flavors you know chocolate chips gluten free we have tons of different you know musters and barbecue sauces for local items and then we have you know about fifteen maybe twenty local beers and wines that you can get  well wonderful well you brought some of your specialty items yet here so i wanted you to get the opportunity to talk a little bit about what you brought and you know later audience know yeah a bit more so being a dietitian for fresh time  in chicago my role actually is to kind of help educate and communicate nutrition messages across all our stores and so three kind of tips for some are what i brought today you know one of the first things is fruits should be your fast foods so you know a bag of peaches or you know the fruit fries actually people in pennsylvania are probably pennsylvanians are only eating one and a half servings of vegetables a day and one serving of fruit a day so we're supposed to be eating five big yeah we're missing the vitamins and minerals and then we're filling it in with you know less healthy things so really making it fun for kids and getting them involved in the summer and making em easy to eat in those little cones you can put out food in their well as one hundred percent i have a two and a half year old and i know that the only way he gobbles down broccoli because the first time he ever thought of that talk broccoli trees  yourself you know starting to have it young and showing them the good habits is a great place and it gets hard to oh yeah and then the next one is hydration and so we should be drinking eight to ten cups of water a day and most people are not getting there and they're filling them with soda or don't do that but i just yeah my five it's tough to get there so really great way to kind of swap out the soda and swap in water you know calories is really picking up either the infused waters that fresh time or making your own here we have blueberry rosemary i know you said you love movies love you can eat them afterwards or even doing the sparkling waters in the can there's no artificial colors no sugar it's just bubbly flavored water great i mean there's even if you don't mind me thinking oh yeah there's actually rosemary inside of here it's a blueberry rose blueberry rosemary don't say that three times you have it looks incredible i haven't had a chance to sample it but i'm hoping to very soon so go ahead and you've got a salad you have some different nets and super foods so i always like to super food anything you're eating whether that snacks in the summer or a salad you're bringing to a party i promise the good food the healthy food will go quicker than you think and really adding nuts and seeds over the top of the salad adds healthy proteins and healthy looks amazing imo i love clean eating and all of that stuff so this is right up my alley is there anything else that i haven't touched on that you'd like to share about fresh time yes so the one other piece of my drought that i really enjoy is we have a free magazine in our store called crave and it's forty five pages of colorful recipes made just for fresh time customers and lots of help recipes and tips that i get to write so pick that up it's free when you enter the store and the  there even better because it's not just fruit right there are some seasonings on there probably have to pick it up thank you so much i'll bring you back out here in a minute we have spent on the show for a little trivia challenge thank you kerry don't forget the new fresh time call your township location and their pleasant hills location opens today go to fresh time dot com for more info we'll be right back with a short trivia challenge for both of our  guests here something we bet you didn't know nearly half of all cancers can be prevented mostly by making changes in your diet controlling your weight and of course by not smoking does it prevent fifty dot org and get a free thirty day planner filled with tips recipes and mor e all right so as many of my former my viewers know i like to do a little trivia session sometimes i don't like to even spring it on my guests until they arrive so today we're having  trivia we did find out backstage that suv and kerry both went to produce so they have a little bit in common here today spend you have any questions about fresh time since now you get to be the first official spokesperson for fresh air in pittsburgh region but you're also so it sounds like there's know what could happen next where you are so happy picked pittsburgh is your new location now we are two and then do you have anything like what sven does out where you are in chicago definitely i have some good friends that are physical therapists i've worked with a few i'm a runner so runners always need a physical therapist but yeah i guess what's the most interesting injury of ever worked with we all sort of question it was interesting injury it's hard like that is a hard question i don't know if it's interesting but definitely my passion was with individuals who have had traumatic brain injuries for a while and just taking them through a process of where they were almost comatose of the point where they are walking and talking again and i've had a fortunate privilege of being able to help a few people through that's amazing to see that progression there is incredible well let's not waste any more time and get this is like a healthy food said you're both into helping people in you're both into health and wellness i figured little healthy food session she might have you on if you might be in order for underdogs but i hope so i hope so these are pretty hard all right so true i'm going to say all right now that's a hard they say dairy and it rains what looks like a vegetable is actually a fruit and considered a berry and this is totally so hard because i had no idea on this one arpita what looks like a vegetable is actually a fruit and considered a berry because needed and i would say tomato or what is a bunch of bananas called monkey food you both are crossing them it's a hand which is it looks like a hand that that makes what has more sugar a lemon or a strawberr a kid site i found today so those kids are smarter than than we are too but there's a lot of different things out there that are that are so off the wall well thank you both for coming on today i appreciate it obviously find out more about