Women Living Fit
Conference With Health Lectures to Be Held Saturday, May 12

	Register and Win! To register, go here or call 1-855-My-Inova (694-6682). Register by April 26, and receive an event T-shirt and be entered to win a $100 gift package. *Event proceeds benefit nursing research at Inova Loudoun Hospital.

Join us for the one-day Women's Community Living Fit Conference! Bring your mother, sister, teenage daughter, friends and neighbors. Come exercise, and learn about healthy eating and cooking, and women's health!
The conference will include Washington Redskins Families Living Healthy and keynote speaker Sophia Franklin from The Biggest Loser. Here are some other agenda highlights:

• Three physician lectures on health, wellness and female urology
  
• A registered dietician lecture on healthy eating
  
• A healthy cooking demonstration provided by Wegmans Leesburg
  
• Opening and closing exercise sessions, Zumba offered
  by The Studio
  

Good Thinking
Concussion Management Program Begins

When a person suffers a concussion or other brain injury, axons in the brain are damaged. Axons are specialized extensions of neurons, the cells in your brain that communicate with distant nerve cells. Severe sudden trauma to the brain can stretch, twist and damage these delicate axonal fibers, leading to permanent brain injury.

Head injuries should not be taken lightly, no matter what the patient’s age, which is why Inova Loudoun Hospital started the Head2Head Concussion Management Program.” We now know that concussions can result not only from serious head trauma but also from multiple minor head injuries or even injuries people did not know occurred,” says Ron Waldrop, MD, Medical Director of the program. The full-service clinic, which serves patients up to age 30, evaluates the patient to determine a diagnosis and whether therapy is needed. The program is for those who have been diagnosed with a concussion only and not for those who have had head injuries with fractures or bleeding.

Breastfeeding Basics
Expanded Lactation Center, Boutique in One Centralized Location

Moms-to-be and breastfeeding mothers can now learn in a new expanded location. The hospital’s Lactation Center and Boutique has moved to a space that is twice the size of its former location. There is now a centralized place for education, support/consultations and supplies. Some of the features of the new location include:

• Four private consultation rooms
  
• A dedicated educational meeting area
  
• Breastfeeding classes
  
• Even more breastfeeding supply offerings (birthing gowns, more brands of nursing bras, abdominal binders, to name a few)
  

Inova Loudoun Hospital Celebrates 100!
Free Birthday Event to Offer Activities for All Ages

In honor of its centennial, Inova Loudoun Hospital is inviting the whole community to come out to celebrate. The FREE event will offer fun, family-friendly activities — all with a tie back to the 1900s. Help us celebrate a past worthy of our future! Appearing will be a juggler and stilt walker, caricature artist, rock wall, DJ and period impersonators. Attendees will learn historical facts about the hospital. Inova Loudoun Hospital would like to thank the community for 100 years of partnership.