Health and Wellness Show 09-30-2023

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, and now time forthe Health and Welos show here on one
of three point five FM and fivesixty am w VOC. Thank you so
much for hanging out with us hereon this Saturday morning. As our best
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quarter postgame call and show will embarkto get your thoughts and let's hope they
are good ones coming up. We'lltalk to Jim Snow from the law office
of James Snell. Workman's compensation.You would think this would be a fairly
cut and dry. There's not muchto discuss here when it comes to workman's

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comp claims when you're injured on thejob. But things do happen and sometimes
attorneys need to get involved. We'lltalk about what some of those things could
be and when an attorney needs toget involved in a workman's comp claim.
Aaron Plot from Massage mechanics will behere to talk about therapeutic massages only making
it feel good, but getting itbetter too, So she'll be along in
a little while. We get thingsstarted with Mike Brown, the owner of

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Molly Made here in the Midlands,Mike and more until you and and good
to have you here as always allright, So we uh, boy,
as much as you hate to eventalk about this, we got to talk
about it today because it's rearing hisugly head again, not to pandemic levels,
but to COVID is back, andwe're seeing increased numbers of people,

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you know, catching code. It'shard to tell these days because you know,
pretty much everybody's doing a home testand then didn't get reported to d
HEX. So you know, theX not reporting these numbers anyway, but
if they were again, it wouldn'tbe anything like the numbers we saw back
during the pandemic. But we areseeing a rise on hospitalizations again, not
to that level, but enough feellevel where your your customers are talking about

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it, right they are. Youknow, we see the newscasts of where
COVID's back in the news story,which it doesn't hit home until you start
to hear it locally. Especially ourcustomer base have have been bringing it up
a lot lately and it is aconcern on our on our customers and other
people in the community's minds. Sowe have to address it. And the

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good thing is that Molly made cleaning, sanity, sanitation and your house actually
can help prevent the COVID virus.So we're just keeping our typical protocols in
place and hopefully helping a lot ofpeople. Now you've been the owner money
made here in this area just ayear about a year, so so I

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don't I don't know if during theheight of the pandemic that I'm sure created
some issues for companies like heros andgetting into homes. Yeah, actually,
so cleaning companies were were deemed essentialworkers. So the cleaning companies could open.
A lot of cleaning companies across thecountry had had incredible years because they

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would come in and sanitize your homeand provide a great service. And unfortunately
I missed that that time period,but you probably probably had customers that well.
I don't know if anything of theoutside coming right, because that's that's
an issue, right, So ifyou know, I think a lot of
cleaning companies saw that that down tothat downturn. But on the other side,
especially commercial cleaning companies coming in todo office space, you know,

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sanitizing, disinfecting the office space wasbig forget people back to work. But
what we try to do is ona regular maintenance program in your home to
fight the cove virus. Well,you and I have been talking about this
for the last month or so anywaybefore this became at least a news eye
of again, and it's more thannews eide of my know a lot of

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people who have come down with itagain. But you've talked about how important
keeping your home clean is for justthis very reason for viruses like like COVID.
You guys at Molly Made, youdon't use your office shelf products,
so we don't. It's a differentthing here. We don't. We use

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a commercial grade, hospital grade chemicalsolutions. I think one of the most
alarming things that I've learned since buyingthe Molly Made was you walk in your
Target or Walmart or Sam's Club andyou see all the different brands that were
aware of you know, mister Clean, Fabulous, so whatever it may be,

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and then they proudly label those productsas killing viruses. Ninety nine point
nine percent of the time. Theand they do, but they you're correct,
they do. But what they callthe dwell time, so that has
to sit for over thirty minutes weton that surface. That's just unrealistic.
Nobody's gonna spray, you know,mister clean uh, spray on your countertop

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and leave it there for thirty minutesor longer wet before they wipe it off.
It's just not realistic. Our dwelltimes for our chemicals are you know,
a menu and or less. Sowe know we're going to kill those
viruses almost on contact. I've neveractually looked closely at the fine print on
those kind of cleaners. They theysay that that has to be sent there

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for that long. You know,I don't think it does. I don't.
I mean, they will say itwill kill COVID virus. They say
that, but they don't talk aboutthe dwell times. Interesting, you know,
I don't know, if you dearagain, Let's hope what we're seeing
right now when it comes to COVIDis the extent of it. Let's hope

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it doesn't get any worse. Itprobably will a bit, but we sort
of didn't want to go back tothe times we were in. But does
the re emergence of that, doesthat change your process and your procedure.
Do you guys do anything differently thanmaybe you didn't do before, you know?
I think one thing is if acustomer requests we have something, we

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will wear masks in the house.Now sure you know, some customers don't
mind that, but some do.I think you know, our protocols are
to make sure our staff are healthy. If anyone has any kind of a
symptom, we test them immediately.Thank goodness, we haven't had any issues,
but we're always monitoring those. Ifthere is an outbreak, we're going

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to shut it down as quick aspossible, not to spread it any of
our employees or our customers. Soit's really just you know, monitoring the
situation, making sure that we're deliveringthat good service to our customers and try
to prevent it if we can.Have you, I'm just curious, have
you heard from any of your customerswho Because as we've talked about before,

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you can pick the schedule you wantto be on as a moneymade customer.
It can be bi weekly, itcould be once a month, I guess,
it could be every week, absolutelyhave you heard from any do you
have any customers who are thinking ormaybe talk to you about well, maybe
we should do this more often nowbecause of this we have you expect you
probably will. You have. We'vegone up to, you know, some
weekly services that that our customers wereevery other week. Every other week is

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most popular. We have gone toweekly. But there's also tips we can
offer that the customer themselves can doon a daily basis. And I'm going
to ask you. We can't bethere every day, So what I would
do is you know this, thinkabout the high touch areas. You know
your coffee uh pot handles, youryou know that the stove handles, your

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door knobs, your light switches,your TV remote control, you know,
keep those clean. A lot oftimes we forget about it, and you
know, it's just something that caneasily be forgotten. But try to maintain
those those high touch areas the bestyou can. We'll be able to hit
everything else, you know that regularbasis to take care of it. But
I would just be concerned. Anotherthing is is your bidline. It's that's

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often forgotten. Let's make sure thatwe clean your bidlinens on a regular basis
now Molly made. We will changeyour bed sheets for you, really we
do, and a lot of ourcustomers that's one of their favorite little services
that we do and no extra charge. But you got to keep that stuff
clean. Is there any rule ofthumb on how often you should be changing
your bed cheese? There is moostrule of thumbs that we see is once

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a week. We also see ifyou caught that sneeze by the way in
the background, it's not I don'thave COVID, it wasn't. Once a
week is a good rule of thumb. Yeah, growing up, we always
did that at my house. Yeah. Yeah, as a kid, I
always every Saturday change a bed sheet. That's right, and my wife and
I do that now basically, butthat's times in my life when I didn't

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do that. Trust. Yeah,we you know, we see people go
about as far as every two weeks, where I think that's fine, but
you could be pushing pushing the boundaries. But I'd say once a week would
be the best the best policy.Now we know that as we sleep,
but we we should enormous amounts ofskins sales, skin sales, yep,

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enormous amounts. So that's a bigproblem. But we're talking to this case
more so, they sort of virusesthat could right could could live in that
and especially if you have pets,you know, if if the dogs sleep
in the bed with you, thatyou should probably you know up and you
know, maybe twice a week becauseour furry friends bring in you know,

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things from the outside as well.Yes they do, Yes, they do.
Let me ask you this, Mike, Uh, not that I'm trying
to you know, yeah, peoplenot to call you guys, but for
folks who do want to do thison their own, are there any tips,
especially because we're talking about COVID rightnow, any other tips that you
might give us as to what arethe things you really need to be focusing

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on right now? You make somesome of those high touch items. Yeah,
I think, you know, goback to the CDC type guidelines.
Mean, wash your hands on aregular basis, you know, you know,
keep your house clean. As wetalked, you know, we ago
just how that can just elimonate justany of your common viruses or bacteria if
you if you have a regular cleaningmaintenance is what all that stuff starts to

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build up, is where the problemsstart to come and then pests come in
and et cetera. So you know, keep your hands clean and leave maybe
leave your shoes at the door.Keep your high touch areas clean, you
know, keep keep your kitchen abathroom. So those are the two big
areas, right, yeah, right, that's the big the big areas.
It's just you know, get ona regular schedule is probably the best best

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rule of thumb. All right,So now let's the money made service.
Now. The way you guys operateis you've got like that that first visit,
that's the big one. That's thedeep initial clean, deep clean,
which for some households may not takethat long, for others could take a
while. Yeah, yeah, wecall that kind of uh, we're gonna

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get your all your old dart outso we can then start to clean your
new dart on a regular basis.Older. Yeah, that's right. So
that a deep clean is when wespend a lot of extra time in the
house, you know, getting thosebaseboards really up to shape. Everyone hates
to do the window sills, youknow, the blinds, all the appliances

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that have could have build up inthe ovens and the microwaves, all that
kind of soap scum build up inthe showers, you know where it's just
if you've missed missed a few weeks, it starts to build up. So
those deep initial cleans is really wherewe get that taken care of, and
I'm gonna get you on a regularmaintenance clean where we won't have those problems
again. Now, do your folkscome out before that initial deep clean and

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the kind of assess the situation sothat you've got an idea going in how
long this is going to take.Absolutely, so we offer everybody a free
and home estimate where we'll come outto the home, we'll inspect it,
we'll actually talk to you about,you know, anything special that you want
attention to and customize a specific cleaningplan to you and your home. You
know, we have customers that say, you know, I have a two

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extra bedrooms upstairs that we never use, so we really don't need those cleaned
every time. So we can adjustthat for you and the price will also
be changed accordingly. So and howdo you set the price? I guess
a lot of factors into that,and only the square footage, the size,
but had some how much stuff yougot? I guess exactly A lot
of variables come into play, youknow, it's you know, basic square
footage is kind of our foundation.But we also look at you know,

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how many bathrooms, how many bedrooms, you know, what kind of hardwood
floors do you have, you know, to try to figure out how long
it's going to really take us inthe house. That's really how the pricing
is based. So once you getthe deep clean done, then again you
get to pick what what what schedusyou want to be on. And I

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guess it's like you know, cuttingyour grass, right, that's right.
If you cut it once a week, you keep up with it. If
you do every two weeks or oncea month, it's going to take you
a while, that's right. Yep. So we offer weekly service, bi
weekly service, and monthly service.We also have customers that that really don't
need a lot of help and preferto have maybe once once a quarter or

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once every six months, and wecan do that also. For example,
what if somebody call you today andsaid, hey, listen, Mike,
we just have we've got family cominginto town. Well we got a big
part, we got big a bunchof people come or what have you.
We just want to one off.Is that possible? We do it all
the time. Okay, just finished. You know, the last big event

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we had there was graduation season.We're a lot people are having graduation parties,
like please come in before sometimes evenafter. So yeah, so that
happens all the time. We willdo a special occasion one off cleaning for
you at no problem at all.It's terrific, all right. So again
we're talking about a bit of aresurgence in COVID, and I think that

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as a population, we're well,I know, obviously we're not a lot
smarter than we were before now asfar as I don't want to get into
the government in revenge side at allthat mess right now, but I think
just generally we're all a little moreaware of Okay, do this, don't
do that. Yeah, I thinkso. But again, when it comes

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to keeping the home clean again,you mentioned the areas that are going to
be most important to focus on.Just let's just repeat those if you will.
Yeah, I think you know,once again, think of those high
touch areas. You know, yourlight switches, you know, touching your
your TV remote control, you knowdoor knobs, you know things that you're
always touching and everybody else in thefamily could be touching. And then let's

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get to our foundation with the bathroomsand the kitchens as are highly used.
Remember, change your bid sheets oncea week. Get on that schedule,
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Jim Snell, the Law Office ofJames Snell, is back behind the microphone

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this morning. Good morning, myfriend, Gary, Good morning. Good
to see about it, Madeline,a repeat performance, Yes, good morning.
We met you a couple of weeksago. Yes, brand new minted.
Well you haven't gotten the bar resultsback yet? Correct, not yet?
Still about a month. Yep.That's gonna be torture. Oh it
is. I try not to thinkabout it. Oh my goodness. But

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in the meantime, I mean you'reyou're, you're you hit the ground running.
Oh yeah, staying busy for sure, Okay, terrific. Uh.
Something we haven't talked about in along time, folks, and that is
uh Worthman's compensation. And we talkedquite a bit about you know, you're
you're injured in the car rex orwhat have you? And and and this

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and that Worthman's comp seems to meto be that would be really cut and
dry. But then again, I'mnot a lawyer. Well is it or
not? We'll say this, Sosometimes it is right to be too lawyerally
is a lawyer answer and right?And and you know obviously sometimes it's not.

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Yeah, okay, So so allright, so we'll talk about when
it is okay, it's basic yeah, because because you know, I'm a
big I'm a big fan of thethe idea that not everybody, not every
accident needs a lawyer every time.You know, there's certainly a plenty of
situations where it's not required. Andand workers comp in situations where you have

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minor injuries, and I'm gonna callit fully cooperative insurance companies and cooperative doctors.
You know, frequently this this claimscan go pretty smooth, right,
without any complexity or really need needto involve you know, anything legal.

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Right. So one of the thingsis workers compensation benefits are almost exclusively well,
first thing is workers cop is theexclusive remedy and it's the only system
that people who are injured at workcan go through to get compensation or help

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with medical expenses. So if I'mhurt at work, because you know,
I sit in this chair for threehours every weekday morning and then some on
Saturdays. And if I fall offthis chair, I cannot sue my employer.
I have to go through work wascomp correct because the chair was fault,
it was defective, was a horriblechair, which, by the way,
it is. But so this ismy only remedy. Yeah, now,

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now, now one thing I willsay, if if I mean,
it's your only it's your only remedyas a very good chair. I'm sorry,
don't hurt his feelings. It's theonly remedy from your employer. If
there if there was a worker's copgo we'll call it a third party claim.
If there was a manufacturing view effectagainst the chair or or something like

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that, that would be a littledifferent. But let's just say just just
regular accidents carrying out your almost Ifyou were injured, you know, arising
out of the course your employment,you cannot sue your employer. You're limited
to going through the workers compensation system. So that's one thing I'll say.
It should be just as simple ashey, I got hurt, You tell

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your employer, they contact the insurancecompany and being your taking care of it
should be that simple. It shouldbe in theory. It should be in
theory. Now, employers have insurancepolicies, or they should through you know,
just like you know, so mademe have car insurance or homeowners they
will have a workers compensation policy.Now, one of the things about workers

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compensation insurance companies is they are forprofit companies. They are although they should
you know, you know, bereceptive to and ministering claims, you know,
promptly professionally getting people the benefits they'reentitled to and getting the claim resolved

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in a reasonable way. Right.You know. One thing people don't realize
is that that insurance company is nota neutral, detached entity. It is
a for profit company looking to minimizethe expenses and maximize profits. So some
people have this idea that they gethurt they talk to workers comp like they're

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talking to a again an arbitrator orsomething, and you know, it is
that insurance company. And one ofthe other things about workers compensation is that
there are really not penalty Are arereally anything that happens to an insurance company
or the employer if an insurance companyyou know, kind of drags their feet

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or the delays are aren't even becauseas far as disputing acclaim without a good
reason right. So people get injuredand they tell their employer, and the
employers like, we'll call this onea hundred number and you know, they'll
help you, and the insurance companyjust drops the ball on it. Really

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there's not much. There's really nothinghappens to the insurance company. I think
some of us are maybe a lotof us, that our lawyers are this
lot of work. Maybe we thinkbecause you know, workplaces, that you
get that big old thing on theboard and the break room, right,
you know, your rights and thisand that, and if you're a hurt

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you know and workman's company blah blahblah blah blah blah blah. And we
feel like some how the government's involvedin all this, the state or whomever.
But that's not true. Yeah,I mean, there are a there
are certainly a series of statutes actuallylaws creating the workers compensation system, providing
you know, a lot of instructionand how it should work. We have

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in South Carolina a Workers Compensation Commission, which is a state administrative agencies that
has its own regulations and which adjudicatesdisputes arising under the workers compensation system.
Between the injured employees and the insurancecompanies. Right, so there is that,

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right, but on the front end, you get somebody gets hurt,
you know, say they slip atwork and they fall and they break their
arm. Right if for any reason, you know, the insurance company initially
is not willing to send them toa doctor or pay for treatment, the
insurance can be really there's not apenalty that gets assessed against them, and

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that that that that's kind of surprising. You know a lot of people when
when they run into that that justclaims are just unfairly delayed or disputed.
You know, that takes a lotof people by surprise that that can happen.
So that's when folks like you getinvolved. That's that's that's an area
to get a lawyer. Because whatwe do and what I typically do in

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every case where people need medical treatmentis I go ahead and file a request
with the Workers Compensation Commission. It'scalled a Form fifty by the way,
to get to get to to getthe claim of you know, get get
confirmation from the insurance company that thisclaim is I'm gonna call it officially recognized

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or admitted and Workers comp LINGO andin authorizing the specific treatment or evaluations.
We need to kind of get getthe process going. So your employer they
don't really have any role in thisother than they have to provide they have
to pay for your organ's conversation insurance, right as part of your benefits.

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That that's that's really the main thingis they should do is obviously pay for
the coverage, and then they doneed to cooperate with the insurance company to
the extent the insurance coming needs themto, you know, regarding confirming the
employment, confirming the accident, Imean that sort of thing, right,
So, but but if you findyourself in this situation, do you file

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the claim as you say, peopletalk about that you call workman's company.
You think you're calling some third party, that's but you're really calling your the
insurance company. Yeah, okay,all right, so you're almost you're you're
already in a in a phoe typesituation here kind of right. Yeah,
and and and sometimes you know itis more again, sometimes it goes very

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smooth, and there are other situationswhere it's for whatever reason, it breaks
down and perfectly valid claims get eitherjust they just delayed, like they just
don't are they just actually dispute them. And I mean again, I have
had clients that literally broke you know. I recently represented a man in West

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Colombia. I mean literally broke hisleg at work, clear's day. It
was a work injury, and thecarrier just refused to provide any medical assistance
and no reason. Right, Sothis is what I will get if they
felt like, well, we don'treally believe the guy was at work when

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it happened or what have you.Okay, maybe that's one thing, but
they just basically ignored it. Theyignored it. Yeah, and I'll tell
So this is just in lis sencemy opinion, just from doing this work
for amost twenty years, I thinkthere is a hope that sometimes if you
I'm gonna call it just don't rollup the red carpet for an injured person,

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that they either will just somehow kindof move along and uh and it
just kind of fizzles out or itgoes away. I don't I don't know
if that makes sense, but sometimes, you know, I think there there's
probably some attrition that the insurance companyknows can happen. But anyway, what
we do to help is is toinvolve the commission in getting claims. It's

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called admitted, so we know thatthat the insurance companies, you know,
kind of officially on the hook.Other area work breaks down is even when
when insurance companies authorize initial medical examinations, like they'll agree to have somebody go
to an urgent care center, iftheir recommendations later for like an orthopedic or

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any kind of specialty referrals or fallup care, there can be delays or
they can deny you know, gettingsubsequent treatments, or you can get in
situations where they'll say referred to adoctor who makes recommendations like for you know,
MRIs or specific treatments, and theinsurance kind of just says, you

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know, no, and they don'thave to give a reason no, no,
and and and the way and theway it generally works is unless the
Workers comp Commission has you know,ordered it to happen, which they can
do, I mean there's the hearingprocess and you can you can get specific
orders that specific treatments can be done. There's really i mean, there's nobody

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otherwise forcing them to do it.So so in those in those situations where
you know, people are not surethey're getting referred to the correct doctors,
or they're not getting the correct treatmentauthorized by the doctors. Those are also
situations where lawyers can come in again, somebody like me, you can come
in and be helpful. So butas opposed to personal injury law, where

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something like this winds up in acourt, here, it winds up in
front of this commission. Yeah,and in a personal injury you're the injured
person is responsible for managing their ownhealthcare. You know, they pick their
doctors. They they they they they'reresponsible for getting their treatments right. Whatever
they think they need, they doit. You know, in workers cop,

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the insurance company picks the doctor.Okay, you have no say so
is that you very littly have,right? I mean they get to select
the doctor and then they get tobe involved in approving or authorizing the treatments.
So now now one thing is thatsounds dangerous? Well, and now

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what the trade offs is in workerscop The benefits should begin sooner, possibly
eat immediately after an accident, aresoon after. You don't have to wait
you know, years potentially to goto trial. And it works. It
doesn't matter whose fault the accident was, right, It could be your own

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fault, you tripped over a filingcabinet and got hurt, or you know,
just the fact that you're in theworkplace. But if it arose out
of work, you get the benefits. So, for example, let's say
I'm a traveling salesperson. Okay,I'm on the road on company business.

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I'm involving an accident and automobile accident, or I stop at a restaurant and
walk in and something happens. Iget it. Is this is this?
Is this a workman's compensation claim?Yes, okay, there's a whole.
There's a whole. But typically forthe traveling salesperson who gets in a car
wreck, that's gonna be covered andthey're driving for work. But if I'm
just driving to work and I'm nota traveling salesperson, then that's a whole

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of it, whole different story,usually not covered. But my boss told
me how to go to work.Today's well, is it your boss or
is it the bill collectors? Well, you know, true, I was
going to say, dominion energy isresponsible for getting up and going to work.
So I'm curious, maddling because you'refresh out of law school. Is

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it like every other every other educationalventure you go into, you learn a
whole lot of this stuff, andyou get out in the real word and
you go, wait a minute,it doesn't work. Yes, okayah,
I kind of thought it might be. Yep, be'st way to learn is
just to be thrown into the realworld when it comes to anything legal law
related. Is it California right thatyou don't even need to go to law
school or take the I guess maybeyou have to take I don't know if

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it take the bar and off,but you just go work for a law
firm for long enough. Kim Kardashiandid that right. Yes, I don't
know the specifics of their requirements,but I do know that you can do
sort of an apprenticeship right and beable to qualify to take the bar,
which sounded crazy to me when Ifirst heard it. But you know,
we stop and think about it,you know, maybe not yeah, hands
on experience, Yeah yeah, allright, anything else in this work is

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gone because no, here's and there'sa lot to a lot to obviously to
cover. This is just you know, again, like the tip of the
iceberg. What what I would sayis this, if anybody has a situation
that they are just curious as towhat their rights are or do they need
a lawyer. They are absolutely welcometo call uh to call them, happy

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to talk to them. There's nocharge. I've told plenty of people they
don't need a lawyer, but certainlythere are situations we can identify where it's
beneficial. The goal, I thinkin one of the reasons you hire a
lawyer is to number one, tryto speed up and make the the process

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as easy as possible. All thatcan still be you know, challenging,
but but try to make sure theyget the healthcare they're entitled to and then
make sure at the end of thecase that they get as much I'm gonna
call it a settlement or compensation forany permanent injury. You know, make
sure they get more money in theirpocket at the end of the day than

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they would have gotten by themselves.And we always focus on the money issue.
But you just said something. It'svery true. I mean a lot
a lot of us just a timeperspective. If you're treatment against delayed,
delayed, delayed, the situation givesworse wors wors and that can happen.
You know that that I mean thatcertainly can happen. Like the gentleman I
was discussing that broke his leg.You know, he had a he had

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a delay and treatment when we gothim treatment eventually, so the whole all
this time, he's just hobbling aroundhere, broken leg. Yeah, and
and and it ended up being ait ended up being a longer, a
more involved process to get the legfixed and yield because of the delay.
And you know, I was,I was very glad that we could help

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him because it was one of thesituations you know where I think an insurance
kind of thought that they I don'tknow what they thought, but but it
was really a situation. If nobodyhad been able to help this guy,
he would have I mean, youknow, he would have had a bad
leg for life. Yeah. Right, So you're there even in more of
most conclaims. We should do alot of So it's not as cut and
dry as people think it is.All right, Number two call is eight

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row three seven three one twelve twelve. That's eight z row three seven three
one twelve twelve, or go toMollymade dot com. Aaron Vlod, the
owner Passage Mechanics over at Lexington,Aaron, good morning day. I hear

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you had a birthday of your recentlywe did. I'm sorry I didn't have
I didn't have your button pressed overhere right? I thought it was probably
the last couple days of pressing butts. Right, let me say get good
morning and happy birthday. Yes,good morning, and thank you. I
appreciate that. Yeah, I hada birthday this week, and uh,
you know, it just kind ofstruck me while I was, you know,

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kind of thinking about the aging process. I guess if you will that
you know, massage is one ofthose things that you can actually take from
actually pre cradle, because you know, we work on a lot of pregnant
mamas, you know, so precradle. It's great, you know,
and uh that does sound a littlebit doomsday when you think about it,

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but it really is something that youcan utilize and that can affect your help
throughout your entire life, you know. And so I kind of wanted to
talk about that a little bit today. I wanted to take you guys from
uh, you know, pre nataland infancy all the way up to uh,
you know, our our end oflife situations and and kind of walk

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through what that might look like forsomebody at the start. Then let's start
at the start. So the onething that we all know, aside from
taxes, that we can't get awayfrom is aging. You know, you
start to aid to the minute you'reconceived, your body is developing and growing
and then degenerating throughout your lifetime.And so you know, we start with

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the pre natal moms, you know, making sure that their pregnancies are healthy,
making sure that we're supporting their musculargrowth, their ligamental uh stretching and
things like that, you know,making sure mom is comfy, because a
comfy mom also creates a comfy birth, which is really great for our babies,
which is where we're going to reallystart this journey. And so people

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always look at me like I'm insanewhen I say that we work on infants,
and it's because, you know,birth is a hard process. I
don't know, I don't know howmany people have ever really thought about that
from the baby's point of view.But getting shoved through a really tiny canal
area, you know, it isreally tough on those tiny bodies, and

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and they get twisted and torqued andeverything every which way and pulled on and
all the things and shoved out oftheir very warm and calm environment into this
very bright, loud, scary world. And so one of that, you
know, we work with new parentsabout is infant massage. And you know,

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It has so many benefits for thebaby, and just in terms of
calming their nervous system, which isa hot mess. I mean, you
can imagine going from a very insularand warm place to this world. It
jars a lot with their nervous systems. And you know, it helps to
regulate their circadian rhythms, so theirsleep patterns and things. Massage can also

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helps digestive issues, colic things likethat, and also if there are some
burthing strain injuries like toward a callus. You know, sometimes they'll have some
uh you know, hip displaysia shoesand things like that, and massage can
really help alleviate the discomfort from that, but it can also help to correct

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those things. So massage and babiesis a very very beneficial and kind of
hand in hand situation. Too young, there is no too young. I've
worked on babies the day they wereborn, so there really is no too
young, just like there is notoo old. I had somebody asked me

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the other day what what the oldestperson I had ever worked on was,
and I said it was a ladywho was one hundred and ten years old.
Uh no, not one hundred andten, My bad she's one hundred
and three, that's right. Shewanted to go to one hundred and ten
because I think at that point theoldest person that had ever been alive was
like one hundred and nine, soshe wanted to beat that. But but

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yeah, she was one hundred andthree when I worked on her. And
of course there are various different youknow, working on enfans and working on
our proscess and very elderly patients isvery similar because you're being very gentle.
You know, it's not as uh, you know, there may be some
corrected things, but they're very veryvery gentle, and it's really more about

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the touch and what that touch doesto your brain patternings and things like that.
But you know, going up frominfancy and you've got children that are
you know, in their child years, you know, so from one to
ten, one to twelve, andyou know they're starting to do sports,
they're running around, they're being reallyactive. But you know, you've also

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got growing pains, and you've gotsleep pattern issues, and you know,
maybe some autoimmune situations and things likethat. So again, massage does wonderful
things for the nervous system and calmingit and really works within the system itself
to help alleviate a lot of thosepains and aches that come along with growing.

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We see a lot of kids withgrowing pains who you know, their
growth plates are stretching out and growinga lot faster than their muscles want to.
And we see a lot of athletestoo, and we we deal.
I mean, we take care ofthem all the way up through you know,
their entire athletic careers. But it'spreventatives just as much as it is

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you know, reactive, So preventativewise, we're keeping those muscles supple,
we're keeping them healthy, we're keepingall those really good you know, lymphatic
fluids and circulatory fluids moving through theirsystem and really helping to feed those muscle
tissues so that they don't get injured. But then when they are injured,
because we all know this is goingto happen, you know, we can

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help alleviate some of those you know, swelling issues, some of those muscular
repair issues, you know, andwe can help support the other muscular structures
as well, because of course,when you're injured, your body compensates and
so all of your other muscle groupingshave to work a little bit harder.
Uh, you know, to helpsupport that injured situation, you know.

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So, and then of course we'vegot our young ladies as they you know,
grow to maturity and they start withtheir menstrual cycles and things like that.
You know, there's a lot ofdiscomfort that can come along with that.
Massage can do a lot to helpwith those things, and to help
alleviate hormonal migraines and tension, headaches, you know, a lot of the

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cramping and things that come along withthat we can absolutely help with, you
know. So there are are variousdifferent hormonal things that we can be of
assistance with, you know. Andthen of course you've got your kids who
get braces and that can be reallyuncomfortable, so we can help with you
know, tmju pain, We canhelp with neck paine, jaw pain and

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headaches that are associated with that aswell. And then of course you get
into your twenties andes, and theseare your child bearing years and you know,
we've of course talked about how wesupport pregnant mamas and everything, but
also these are the years where peopleare sort of like weekend warriors. So
it's the years where you're at workall day and your job may have something

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where there's a repetitive strain for that, you know, whether it's you're sitting
for long periods of time, oryou're on a computer a lot, or
maybe you're at a job where youhave to stand on concrete all day or
you're lifting heavy things. So thereare a lot of things that go along
with that. There are a lotof muscle tweaks, injuries, things that
can come along with that. Andof course we're here just to support through

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that whole time period into your forties, into your fifties, where in your
fifties you start having some breakdown withsome things, maybe some ostio arthritis,
you know, maybe there are goingto be some you know, cancer issues
and things like that, unfortunately,and of course we're here for that too.
You know, we can help ina myriad of ways to help support

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people as they age. A lotof that is again just keeping those muscles
stuffle, keeping that flexibility going,making sure that your propriate reception is good,
and that's your mind's way of knowingwhere you are in space, your
physical being where it is in space. So balance issues become an issue.
Yeah, stop your no, that'sinteresting. How does that work? So

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appropriate reception a lot of it hasto do with the actual physicality of touch
and the way that your brain recognizesthat and where it is. So your
propre reception has a lot to dowith your spatial ability to see kind of
where you are. Your your peripheralvision has a lot to do with it,

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but it's sort of an inner earthing, believe it or not,
that helps to understand where your balanceis, where your center is, and
so as long as those things areworking properly, you typically don't have a
lot of balance issues. But peopletend to start having balance issues as they
age because again some of those musclesand some of those nerves and some of

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those patternings are starting to deteriorate.And so, you know us using massage,
it again makes you very aware ofyour body, your muscle structure,
and helps to keep things balanced asfar as you know, making sure that
there's not too much tension, youknow, in the hip on one side

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where it's pulling everything to one side, which can cause an imbalance in the
muscle strength. And when your musclesare imbalanced with their strengths, they aren't
going to operate the way that theyshould, and so you may end up
having a weakness in a knee orin a hip, which you know,
you're walking along and all of asudden you're needos out. Have you ever
had that happen? Oh? Yes, yeah, And so it's not necessarily

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that the knee was injured. Itwas just for whatever reason, there was
some weakening in the muscle structures aroundthe knee that support it and they just
quit, you know, and itreally is and like you you go down
and you're like oh, and thenyou're like, but it's fine, you
know, And it was just thattemporary weakening and and that does happen,

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you know, and it happens morefrequently as we age, you know,
so falls become an issue, youknow, injuries uh that you never really
you know, just getting out ofbed, you can pull a buffle in
your back. You know, Isneezed the other day and thought I'd died.
So, you know, again,as we age these things, just
you know, everything gets a littlebit more sensitive and and massage kind of

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helps keep that in your forefront andand that ability to kind of recognize things
going wrong before they go really reallywrong. You know, when when you're
used to having your body feel aspecific way, when it starts to feel
off, you recognize it a lotfaster, You're more aware, you know,

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And that's I think one of thebiggest things for our elderly population that
massage does, aside from helping tomaintain flexibility, is it just keeps you
really aware of how your body feels. And we have people all the time
who tell us, like they'll calland they'll just be like, something just
I don't know, it doesn't reallyhurt, it just doesn't feel right,
and I'm like, okay, we'llcome on in, and then you know,

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after they leave, they're like,Okay, I feel, you know,
one hundred percent better everything, youknow, like they feel normal again.
And then of course we get intolike I said, cancers, certain
illnesses, certain autoimmune issues, somethingcertain neurological issues, Parkinson's, things like
that that tend to develop as weage. You know, we can definitely

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help with a lot of the symptomaticissues that people have with that and help
keep people comfortable, keep them functionalfor a little bit longer, you know.
And it's a very comforting thing too, because those things can be very
scary and having somebody there who youknow is a support and who is using

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therapeutic touch in a way that issupportive is incredibly comforting, and it's a
safe space and it's a safe feeling. So especially when so many things are
are not feeling safe, you know, you just don't know what's going to
happen. And never discount just thepower of touch itself. Oh, one
hundred percent, one hundred percent,Like what was it? There was a

(49:25):
study that was done about hugs andit said, hug it lasts longer than
thirty seconds, has the power tolike they've actually done studies, and it
lowers your blood pressure, it upsyour serotonin and dopamine levels. It I
mean, like it's kind of kindof really really really cool what it does

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distress and everything. Touch itself isincredibly powerful when it's used in a in
a safe way, you know,just as it's powerful when it's used in
an unsafe way. You know.I mean, people who have suffered trauma
and abuse and things like that willabsolutely tell you that that touches a very
problem. And it takes a reallylong time to gain that ability back to

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let people you know kind of touchyou, you know, and so then
you know, obviously we go intothose final stages of life and we do
work with a good number of rehabilitativehomes, nursing homes and hospite center.

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So you know, again that looksa lot different than what people's average idea
of a massage is. It couldbe something as simple as us coming and
just you know, lightly gently rubbinga hand, you know, or a
person's feet. It's all about comfortat that point. It's all about being
there and and and just making surethat that person knows that there's somebody there

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and again connecting through that therapeutic touchthat is so comforting and so very easing
and calming, you know, becauseagain that's that's a that's a stressful point
in somebody's life, and you know, they don't feel good. You know,
they are not often in great shake, so they just don't feel good.

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And so any little thing that wecan do, uh to come in
and and to help them feel better, even if it's for a short period
of time, is good for them. From from cradle to grave. You
had folks job here a hundred percent, yep, one hundred percent, you
know, and there's a lot inbetween that. I mean, I've been
in delivery rooms before, helping uhwith you know, back pain, helping

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with you know, keeping mom calm. That was a very very close friend
of mine that you know, Ihad worked on her forever. And uh,
you know, there's there's a lotof different holistic approaches for massage and
and it truly is something that cansupport you your entire life. And and
I'm a huge advocate of of utilizingit and and for coming in and keeping

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an open mind and really trying toutilize all the different aspects of it,
you know. And I have saidin a million times not to knock a
spa. I love a spas.I'll go to a spot any day of
the week. It's just not thesame thing, right talking about the therapy
both physical and emotional as well.Eric, thank thank you so much.

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As always, how to folks reachyou and set up an appointment to come
out and see a massage mechanics.So the best way to set an appointment
is to go to the website that'swww dot Massage Mechanics sc dot com.
Of course, you can always giveus a call at the office which is

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eight zero three five two zero sixtwo nine one. And you know,
if we if you don't grab usthere, definitely leave a voicemail and we'll
get right back to you. Butyeah, those are usually the best ways
to get through, and the bookingapp on the website is the easiest way
to see the full schedule. Allright, Well, enjoy the rest of
your birthday week. We'll talk soon. I certainly will. I appreciate it.

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