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TOSH Celebrates 20th Anniversary On June 4 With Major Community Health Fair and Party Free Screenings, Demonstrations, Seminars and Activities Available for the Entire Family For Immediate Release: Contact: Jess Gomez May 30, 2011 (801) 718-8495 / [EMAIL REDACTED] MURRAY – TOSH–The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital is celebrating 20 years of service with a health fair this Saturday, June 4, that will include interactive tours of operating rooms, free health screenings, informative seminars, outdoor activities, baseball and soccer clinics, and sports performance training demonstrations. ―We’re excited to invite the public to this informational and fun event,‖ says Bryan Johnson, TOSH’s administrator. ―We’re proud to have one of the premier facilities in the nation for comprehensive orthopedic surgery and sports medicine, and we invite the public to come and see what we have to offer.‖ Saturday’s health fair and 20-year celebration will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at TOSH, 5848 South 300 East, in Murray, and will feature a variety of activities for the whole family: Free screenings, including glucose, cholesterol, eye exams, hearing exams, and blood pressure screenings — will be offered to the first 500 participants. Physician presentations will start at 9 a.m. and continue every hour on a variety of topics: 9 a.m. — Knee and Arthritis & Total Joint Surgery 10 a.m. — Thumb Pain: What’s Hot and What’s Not 11 a.m. — Sports Injury Treatment & Concussions Noon — Spine & Back Pain Treatment Interactive tours of TOSH's state-of-the-art orthopedic operating rooms will allow participants to get a behind-the-scenes perspective of different surgeries and orthopedic implants. Kids will have the opportunity to tie sutures and repair femur fractures. Baseball and soccer training can help players from youth to professional levels improve their speed, agility, and power by participating in the TOSH Sports Performance Training program, and participants can get a taste of the program for free at the health ---PAGE BREAK--- fair. An Intermountain Life Flight helicopter will be on display, along with a number of emergency vehicles from Gold Cross Ambulance and Murray City Fire Department. A giant slide, climbing wall, and outdoor activities will be available for kids and families. Golf demonstrations will be offered to help participants learn about the TOSH Playing My Best Golf program, which is designed for golfers who want to improve their overall golf performance through fitness, play with fewer injuries, and play with more consistency. Sports performance training methods and strategies will be demonstrated by experts from TOSH’s Sports Performance Training Program. TOSH has become one of the country's premier centers for orthopedic surgery, orthopedic research, sports performance training, comprehensive physical therapy and rehab, and sports medicine programs. TOSH's broad range of service includes Performance Sports Training, sports medicine, sports biomechanics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, nutrition, biomechanical engineering, and exercise and sport physiology. TOSH began as a small, stand-alone facility in 1991 on the Cottonwood Hospital campus as a joint venture between physicians and Intermountain Healthcare. Today, it’s expanded its footprint significantly and enhanced its services. The old Cottonwood Hospital campus is now the TOSH campus. TOSH has grown from those humble beginnings into one of the nation's premier orthopedic and sports medicine centers. Today, TOSH has 400 employees, 147-member medical staff and operates a 36-bed inpatient orthopedic inpatient unit in a 100,000 square-foot facility. Programs at TOSH include surgery, specialized physical therapy, a neck and back clinic, performance sports training, Living My Best Osteoarthritis program, a five-lane therapeutic pool, a state-of- the-art rehabilitation center, video analysis suite and a training room and exercise science and physiology labs for research.