Wellness Programs Stay Virtual!!
Self care is the new health care. Learn more for yourself, family, friends, and clients.
Wellness and Weight Loss (WWL)
Starts Thursday, February 1, 2024.
This eight (8) session program provides support and education for participants looking to lose or control their weight and optimize their health. Feel better, move better, sleep better, and think better with only a 3 hour commitment per month!
Our groups are consistently losing weight, reducing waistlines, improving blood tests, experiencing better sleep and less discomfort. Everyone completing the WWL programs have improved something! And every class session has lost weight!
Wellness and Weight Loss -- A Deeper Dive (WWL DD)
Starts Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Popular highlights will continue to include sharing wins and successes, and actionable steps and information. Plus sessions will continue to include pearls for optimal weight control, optimal immune system response, and optimal brain health. Plus basic education and support for issues related to digestion, elimination, eating habits, and (of course!) exercise/activity/ movement are woven throughout the program. Support is provided between sessions too!
Special addition to this 8 week program; Mindful Morning Movement during every class!
The Wellness and Weight Loss program (WWL) is recommended but not required prior to attending this WWL DD program.
Deeper Dive program groups report lost pounds, learning more, and or feeling better EVERY session.
Animal Assisted Therapy
Our Therapy Dogs have been part of our physical therapy clinic and educational programs for more than 18 years. Our Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) helps patients in many ways. Bolt, Ace, and Flash can assist and resist movement, participate in balance training, provide comfort and emotional support, and more!
Sheryl's Favs
Coming soon: Learn About Lab Tests. 1.25.24
Click here for event information and registration.
Curious about our popular Wellness Wednesday Recipes? Email us to request a link to our private page.
Free Presentation 2.3.24
Wellness at Both Ends of the Leash
Live, on-site presentation includes a cooking demonstration, handouts, samples, and time for Q&A!
This program introduces an enlightening series of programs where we learn the commonalities between dogs and people and how both benefit from sharing healthy lifestyle tips. Coming soon: Flyer for more information. In the meantime, call 630.369.1015 for details.
Rave reviews from our Wellness and Weight Loss programs
This wellness class has given me the information I needed to get real results with weight loss, improved sleep and make better choices with my nutrition. The group dynamic is instrumental in helping with consistency and commitment to my wellness. The education and teachings are inspiring and Sheryl is an excellent researcher and is able to help me connect all the dots. Thank you Sheryl.
Rave reviews from our Wellness and Weight Loss programs
Extraordinarily helpful!
If I get off track, now I know what to do to get back on track.
Overall I feel better, clothes fit better, I am calmer, and I am getting more done.
Cholesterol went down to normal range, all numbers are good, it's really interesting.
More Programs
Self care is the new health care. Learn more for yourself, family, and friends.
The Wahls Protocol
Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. Sheryl Poremba, PT has studied with Dr. Wahls and became a Certified Wahls Protocol Health Professional to help her community become healthier, happier, and more active. She also utilizes The Wahls Protocol in her own life.
Do you or someone you care about suffer from an autoimmune or neurological disease? Maybe there is no clear diagnosis but symptoms like brain fog, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, memory loss, or inflammation are interfering with normal life.
If you have been searching for information about functional medicine and using a therapeutic diet and lifestyle program to see how it can impact your health, you’ve arrived at the right place.
Continuing Education for PT/OT Rehab Professionals
Rehab Connections specializes in cost-effective, half day and full day continuing education that has immediate application to patient care. 98-100% of attendees continue to rate us excellent or good, and hundreds of clinicians attend 3 or more of our continuing education events every licensure renewal cycle. In fact, 95% of our attendees are repeat customers!
Let's Talk Wellness
Our November 2019-2020 Diabetes Prevention Program group* lost a total of 207 pounds in the 1 year program!!!!
"I have so much more energy since starting the DPP program"
"My A1C has gone from a 9 to a 7.2 with the changes I have made with the DPP Program!!"
"Being part of this group is fun and keeps me accountable."
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* 10 participants , even with many holidays!! Congrats to all!
Professional staff
Sheryl Poremba, PT, CCM is Founder and President of Rehab Connections. Since 2000 her expertise has grown its outpatient physical therapy services and the Education and Training Center. She is a licensed Physical Therapist and Certified Case Manager. Sheryl has conducted more than 1000 presentations locally, nationally, and virtually in a variety of professional and community venues.
Sheryl is also Chief Wellness Officer for Rehab Connections developing and presenting wellness programs for the community and her colleagues in physical therapy and occupational therapy. Her personal wellness journey started as a teenager experiencing hemiplegic migraines and weight control challenges. When hypertension, a detached retina, a kidney stone, and weight gain were being attributed to aging before turning 50, she successfully changed her path to wellness and now has no joint pain or migraines plus normal blood pressure, body weight, and lab tests -- all without needing any medications.
Helping others is Sheryl's passion so she completed additional extensive and specialized training and credentials in health and wellness including Certified Wahls Protocol Health Professional, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Coach, and Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner through Functional Nutrition Alliance.
Mandi Ehler, PTA, BS joined Rehab Connections in 2013 to follow her passion for education and helping others. She completed her bachelors degree with a focus on Health Care Leadership in 2017 and continues to learn through continuing education in multiple disciplines.
Both clinicians have also received Lifestyle Coaching certificates through the State of Wellness, Inc.