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Optimum Performance Sports, a health facility with a focus on weekend warriors and all types of athletes, held a ribbon-cutting at its new facility on U.S. 30.
The 20,000-square-foot OPS building includes three distinct areas. In the center is a multifunctional workout room that includes weight machines, a basketball court and other exercise equipment. To the east is a physical therapy facility run by Kosciusko Community Hospital and its Lutheran Health Network. To the west is Orthostat Walk-in Clinic run by Fort Wayne Orthopedics.
Representatives of the two groups, as well as Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce, gathered Thursday for the ribbon-cutting for OPS.
The physical therapy facility will be a satellite clinic for KCH with a focus on sports injuries and musculoskeletal injuries, ranging from ankle sprains to bone breaks and even work compensation injuries, said Matt Hauck, a physical therapist who will oversee the facility.
He pointed out that unlike the past, patients don’t immediately need a physician’s referral to see a physical therapist.
The clinic will have open gym hours for people to work out, participate in training sessions or take classes geared to improving agility, flexibility, coordination and speed. Fees are required, Hauck said.
The physical therapy area and gym display logos and memorabilia from Warsaw Community Schools, Triton School Corp., Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. and Grace College, which have contractual relationships with Lutheran Health Network.
Through the arrangement, KCH provides athletic training services, but also CPR training for nurses, physicals and even EKG tests at cost, Hauck said.
The heart test is a step far beyond the level of care afforded to athletes in past decades, he said.
