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The tenaciously trail‑ready Grizzly® EPS and EPS SE are the best‑performing ATVs in the class, with superior capability, all‑day ® capability, all‑day The tenaciously trail‑readydurability.

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ATVs with engine sizes of greater than 90cc are recommended for use only by those age 16 and older. YAMAHA recommends that all ATV riders take an approved training course. For safety and training information, see your dealer or call the ATV Safety Institute at 1-800-887-2887. ATVs can be hazardous to operate. For your safety: Always avoid paved surfaces. Never ride on public roads. Always wear a helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Never carry passengers. Never engage in stunt riding. Riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Avoid excessive speed. And be particularly careful on difficult terrain. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. • YamahaMotorsports.com

For Best Pricing Options Contact Your Participating Dealer. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Product and specifications subject to change without notice. Professional rider on closed course under controlled conditions. Always wear an approved helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Ride responsibly and always ride within your capabilities, allowing time and distance for maneuvering, and respect ot hers around you. Know the conditions. Observe all state and local laws. Don’t drink and ride.

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the perfect off-roader low maintenance performance for larger riders. The versatile TT-R125LE is engine, 4-speed auto for discovering the freedom of trail riding. The TT-R110E boasts a torquey makes the ideal TT-R50E the And alike. old and young for height seat low and ion, clutch transmiss stop screw throttle and height, seat ultra-low ion, starter bike with a 3-speed auto clutch transmiss ® family. that restricts speed for learning. The Yamaha TT-R line. Off-road fun for the whole

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Yamaha Motorcycles, ATVs & Snowmachines Available At These Participating Yamaha Dealers: ATVs are recommended only for use by those age 16 years and older. YAMAHA recommends an approved training course.

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H e a lt h

Beyond Games

Using Virtual Reality to Improve Health Virtual reality—often referred to as “VR”—used to be science fiction. Today, it’s everywhere. All you need is a smartphone and a headset to immerse yourself in 3-D virtual worlds or games. This booming technology may also be useful for health care and research.

“In the last few years, there’s been a huge expansion in the number of exciting clinical applications of virtual reality,” says Dr. Andrew Huberman, a VR researcher at Stanford University.

NIH-funded researchers are finding that VR may help with many areas of medicine.

These include tailoring rehabilitation exercises, improving mental health, and reducing pain.

Restoring Movement Scientists have been testing VR to treat movement problems. These can be caused by a stroke, a brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, or other conditions. Rehabilitation exercises can sometimes help people train their muscles to improve their movement. But these exercises can be boring—especially to kids.

Dr. Amy Bastian, a movement specialist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, is using VR to make rehabilitation exercises more engaging for kids. It also lets her team tailor the exercises to individual children’s needs.

“With VR, we can do things that are really hard to do in real-world therapy,” Bastian says. “If we want you to learn to reach and control your balance in one direction, we can make all the game components move things in that direction.”

VR can also help kids who have trouble following directions, she explains. “We can say something like, ‘just punch the red things.’ This can get them to do all kinds of complex tasks.”

Bastian is also developing VR exercises for adults who have damage to the cerebellum, the part of the brain that coordinates movement. This type of brain injury makes people’s movements jerky and uncoordinated.

The team is testing whether other parts of the brain can be taught to coordinate movements instead. But this can’t happen if the eyes can see the body, because the damaged cerebellum tries to take over.

That’s why her team is putting people into a VR scene where their bodies don’t exist. They must reach for targets with nowinvisible limbs. Because the people can’t see their arms, other brain areas must take over to complete the task.

Coins fall from the virtual sky when the person makes a smooth movement to grab an object. This instant feedback for a successful movement is vital for the brain to forge new learning pathways, Bastian explains. “In VR, we can manipulate the en-

vironment in real time to help them learn to use another brain system.”

Fighting Fear Huberman is using VR to test techniques to help people cope with fear and anxiety.

VR is ideal for studying such mental states, he explains.

“Vision, more than any other sense, is the sense that humans use to navigate the world and survive. And, more than any other sense, it drives phobias and anxiety.”

What you see can be easily manipulated using a virtual environment. His team is using this aspect of VR to help people learn to manage their fears.

“We can create experiences that are very realistic,” Huberman explains. “We can create an experience that’s a little bit threatening, or one that’s very threatening.”

VR can show people scenes of sharks or spiders, put them high on top of a building, or have them standing in front of a crowd to speak.

After their participants have one of these VR experiences, the team teaches them ways to manage their stress and discomfort. These include focused breathing exercises and other techniques.

The researchers then put people back into the stressful VR environment to see if the techniques can help them reduce their anxiety in the moment.

A unique advantage of VR, Huberman explains, is that researchers can directly measure signs of anxiety. These include changes in eye movements and pupil size.

The study is still in progress, but Huberman says the training seems to be helping people with their anxiety.

Distracting From Pain In addition to helping people process uncomfortable mental experiences, VR may help people cope with physical discomfort.

Researchers are testing how VR can help reduce the pain from certain medical procedures.

Dr. Sam Sharar, a pain expert at the Uni-

versity of Washington, uses VR to distract children and adults who are recovering from burns.

“Burn pain can be really, really bad. It’s hard to tolerate,” Sharar says. For burns to heal, the wounds must be washed and covered again every day. These procedures are very painful. Drugs that reduce pain often provide only partial relief for people with burn injuries.

Sharar believes VR can relieve pain by distracting the brain. “People have a fixed amount of conscious attention,” he says.

“If you divert some of that from experiencing a painful procedure to another task, the brain experiences less pain. This happens even though the same pain signal is coming through the skin.”

His team and others developed a VR program that places people in a freezing cold virtual world. It engages their eyes and ears to block out what’s happening to their skin.

It also has a game where people hit a target to distract more of their attention.

The team’s studies have shown that the immersive program reduced people’s pain

during burn care by half compared with playing a regular video game.

Sharar and other researchers continue looking for ways to use virtual environments to provide more effective pain relief.

For people with chronic pain, which lasts for more than three months, using VR distraction hasn’t been found to be helpful. His team and others are now using VR to expand access to techniques that have proven to help people manage chronic pain, like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

“If VR could be used to deliver this type of therapy in an immersive, virtual environment,” Sharar says, “I think that would have tremendous potential to improve self-management of pain.”

VR continues to drop in cost and grow in popularity, Huberman adds. He thinks the feedback it can provide to the senses will also continue to improve. Such improvements could potentially open doors to its use in more areas of health care. See the Wise Choices boxes to learn more about NIH-funded studies testing VR. Courtsey of NIH News in Health.

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Place jars of food in boiling water and process for specific times.

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Eagle River Challenge Race Aug 10th @ 10:00am

Eagle River Nature Center (32750 Eagle River Rd.)

5K/10K trail race on the Dew Mound and Crow Pass trails. Bib pick-up starts at 9am, and race start is at 10am. Entry fee is $30 preregistered, $35 day of the race. info@ernc.org • 90 7 - 6 9 4 - 2 1 0 8

Meet a Great Horned Owl Aug 17th @ 2:00pm

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Price: Free All Ages Program Whoooo’s there? Join Ginamaria Smith and Archimedes the great horned owl to discover some of the fascinating habits of owls. Free; $5 parking for non-members. info@ernc.org • 90 7 - 6 9 4 - 2 1 0 8

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