70 YEAR OLD PHYSICAL THERAPIST WILL SWIM ENGLISH CHANNEL FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH AND SHOW THAT GETTING OLDER DOESN'T MEAN LESS ENDURANCE

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For all those people who complain that there get up and go got up and went, I saw a fascinating story about a 70 year old physical therapist who will swim across the English Channel! His name is Stanley Paris and he is a physical therapist and founder of a health sciences university. He is using the swim to draw attention to physical therapy and physical therapy research as well as dispel notions about the limitations of aging. He says "A lot of people my age are couch potatoes and don't believe they can get back to a youthful physical state. But the body doesn't really lose its ability in endurance sports as much as we allow it to lose its ability. I want to promote that people of my age can do better than what they're doing."

What was the name of the first woman to fly across the English Channel?


1.Gertrude Hamilton 2. Harriet Quimby 3.Charlotte Anderson 4.Jennifer Aniston

He is using the swim across the English channel to raise money for physical therapy research. He says "Physical therapy is now an independent profession, and patients can come directly to us without having been referred by a physician. But we don't have the research that shows we are more effective than replacing a hip or a knee or fusing the spine. We can show in the short term that physical therapy can be more effective than medication or surgery but we don't have the five- to 10-year studies showing that it's more effective and more cost effective. We feel that the ability to restore and maintain and enhance physical functioning hasn't been shown in long-term studies. And we need money to do that research".

Paris on La Manche

Stanley Swims, Floats Research

Training For a Very, Very Long Swim