SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) – KSLA and the YMCA hosted the annual Living Your Best Life Wellness Expo on Saturday, June 6 at the BHP YMCA on Knight Street in Shreveport from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Access to health care and resources was the focus of the annual “Your Best Life” wellness expo.
Community members connected with local health experts, received free screenings and learned about services available in the Arklatex.
Mildred Metoyer, who attended the expo, said people need to learn as much as they can about health so they can stay healthy.
At the BHP YMCA, over a dozen booths came together to bring resources to the Arklatex community. One of them focused on women’s health.
Mary Watts with Elite Physical Therapy said they help women get back from the postpartum stage, heal their core and heal their pelvic floor to help them return to what they were doing before.
Watts said there are only four pelvic floor specialists in the Shreveport-Bossier area.
“We really need more in our area versus a larger city. They might have one on every corner, but here it’s very few. So, it’s definitely a rising need in health care for our area,” Watts said.
Watts said they were at the expo to reach out to more women and let them know help is available.
Another booth gained attention for quick laser therapy demos aimed at pain relief.
Julie Ann Harris, director of Shreveport Aquatic & Land Therapies, said they wanted to share their laser session and screen people to see if it would help. She said many people are in pain and want answers on how they can improve pain without medication.
For others, it was the free health screenings that stood out, giving people a quick check-in on the numbers that matter.
Metoyer said the health screenings done by LSU Health Science included learning more about blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose testing. She said those are important to health.
Organizers said events like this make it easier to take that first step—ask questions, get checked out and walk away with resources to use right now.
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The expo is designed to benefit the well-being of everyone in the ArkLaTex. There will be dozens of health and wellness experts and vendors at the fair, all with the same goal: to help people live their best lives.
The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The first 200 people to arrive will get a free tote bag.
Participants include:
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