SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — The Shannon Community Fitness Program offers patients wanting to make more progress after completing therapy an opportunity to meet with professionals who can help make it happen. The program wasn't always as big as it is now, though.

Jessica Ayers, a physical therapist with Shannon Medical Center, said she and her colleagues created the Shannon Community Fitness Program in 2020 after they learned that several patients were left with few options to continue their progress after completing therapy.

"A lot of our patients are not going to go join Planet Fitness," Ayers said while providing an example. "At neurorehabilitation, where some of our patients suffer from neuropathy or strokes, Parkinson's, brain injuries, they don't really fit the typi

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