February 4, 2026—9-10---Working on Wellness Wednesday—50-97

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   I’m Bill Zortman and WELCOME to a WORKING ON WELLNESS WEDNESDAY..Show 50-97 in our ORIGINAL It’s YOUR Business Series.

   Heavy duty talk on wellness in this hour---and we’ll have a couple of more wellness topics leading off our 10:00---show as well.

   We start this hour with Chief Health Officer ---Joe Kipley---the City of Sioux Falls----

   Thanks for joining us and starting our discussions----

   So as Sioux Falls Chief Health Officer---now that we are in the winter months----we know there is more and more to share----what do you see and hear that we should be talking about this morning---

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    Trends ----what for the first 5 weeks of 2026----what should our audience know about------

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   Just ahead---we’ll talk with Mary Michaels---AARP South Dakota

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In addition to the City Health Officer Joe Kipley----and Head of the SD Med School Tim Ridgway---AARP is a frequent contributor

AARP South Dakota Recognizes Volunteer Leaders at Annual Event
AARP South Dakota hosted volunteers from across the state in Pierre January 27-28 for their annual Volunteer Summit and Lobby Day at the Capitol. And yes it’s MARY MICHAELS----

Karla Abbott of Sioux Falls received the 2025 AARP South Dakota Andrus Award. The Andrus Award for Community Service is a prestigious honor presented annually by each AARP state office to an outstanding volunteer. It is named for AARP’s Founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, who knew that a life fulfilled was a life dedicated to service. The award celebrates individuals who generously share their experiences, talents and skills to enrich the lives of others and to improve their community. Abbott was honored for her 38-year career in nursing and education, where she not only advocated for the nursing profession but also for research that preserves the health of Native Americans and increases Native American participation in STEM fields. For nearly a decade, she has stepped up to lead local activities, lend her voice to advocacy efforts, and serve on our volunteer Executive Council. As an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe from Eagle Butte, Karla has helped AARP South Dakota reach out to rural and Native American communities on important topics like Social Security, Medicaid Expansion and Family Caregiving – an area she knows well, having been a caregiver for her father.”

Doris Ann Werlinger of Rapid City received the 2025 Community Leadership Award, recognizing her efforts to engage others in the mission and priorities of AARP South Dakota. Over the past 25 years, Werlinger has held nearly every volunteer role in the state, including coordinating AARP Foundation Tax-Aide and AARP Driver Safety programs, taking action as an advocacy volunteer, helping at events and, currently, coordinating AARP South Dakota’s Information Center located at the Uptown Rapid mall.

The 2025 AARP Amplifier Award went to Melodee and Dave Johnson of Sioux Falls. The Johnsons are a well-known duo at Sioux Falls events and have shared their time and talents with AARP South Dakota for more than a decade. When volunteering at events, they warmly draw people in to learn more about AARP’s resources and programs. As “amplifiers,” the Johnsons help communicate the message, mission and priorities of AARP South Dakota to engage a broader audience.

The summit’s theme of Red, White and YOU! put the spotlight on our nation’s 250th birthday celebration in 2026, as well as on the importance of volunteers to communities across the state. The event included educational sessions on the roles each volunteer can play in bringing resources, information and events to their communities.

In addition to coming together to learn and celebrate, the group spent a day at the Capitol, where they attended legislative committees and hosted a lunch for legislators and Capitol staff in the Rotunda.

The volunteers, dressed in their signature AARP red vests, were recognized during the afternoon sessions of both the Senate and House Chambers.

AARP SD Watching Important Issues at the State Capitol

AARP South Dakota maintains a presence at the State Capitol in Pierre to monitor issues important to South Dakotans 50-plus and their families. This session, we’re watching issues like property taxes, access to health care, voting access, services for older adults like home care and consumer protection. We send out weekly updates on legislative action. To sign up, simply go to aarp.org/getinvolved. You can also stay up-to-date with our work in Pierre at aarp.org/sd and on our social media (Facebook, X and Instagram.)

AARP South Dakota Accepting 2026 Community Challenge Grant Applications

AARP South Dakota invites local eligible organizations and government entities across the state to apply for the 2026 AARP Community Challenge grant program, now through March 4, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern (4:00 p.m. Central/3:00 p.m. Mountain).

Now in its tenth year, the AARP Community Challenge grant program funds quick-action projects to help communities become more livable by improving public spaces, transportation, housing, digital connections and more. The program is part of AARP’s nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for all residents. Since 2017, AARP has funded 2,100 projects by nonprofit organizations and government entities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands – including more than $414,000 through 40 projects in South Dakota communities.

AARP South Dakota collaborates with communities across the state, bringing people together and providing resources and expertise to help make South Dakota an even better place to live for people of all ages. Past community challenge grants across the state have supported safe walking and biking trails, park improvement projects, community gardens and more.

   We appreciate all that AARP does for health care and education---

   Joshua Jorde---next –among the topics ---Sleeping positions---following Fox Business News---

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   One of the LONG-TIME Regulars in our Wellness Wednesday show is Dr. Joshua Jorde------he’s back in his mid-week position---and he wants to talk sleeping positions---

  Good morning Dr. Jorde

Last time I was on, I mentioned I may talk today about sleeping positions, bed considerations, pillows, etc. and it turns out it was incredibly relevant for me personally as well given how my own sleeping situation was last week.

To start with, and favorite quote of mine about health, which I often need to tell myself, too, is “a person who doesn’t make time for recreation will sooner or later be forced to make time for illness.” Unfortunately, the illness in this case struck my daughter rather than me, though I did indeed need to take time off to look after her including spending 4 nights on a pull-out hospital guest bed.

Now, before I even get on to advice on things that can be changed, I should at least talk about dealing with things that can’t. More often than not when travelling, you can’t readily choose your bed. And given how much time we spend in our own beds, a new bed is almost always going to be worse for your body if in it for a few days even if the bed is objectively better just due to being unused to it. That’s part of why getting adjusted after travelling, especially a week or more, is a good idea.

 However, even though you can’t bring your bed along, it’s much more manageable to at least bring your own pillow(s) along especially if driving.

When dealing with your own bed though, the first question is “what’s the best way to sleep?” Again, all of this will be generalities as people with significant acute injuries, sometimes with chronic injuries, end

stages of pregnancy etc. will all have different guidelines depending on their circumstances.

For most people, though, sleeping on the back is going to be best, on one’s side is second best and can be improved by keeping an eye on some factors, and sleeping on one’s stomach is worst especially because just to be able to breath will mean significantly twisting one portion of the spine or the other.

Obviously, this can be difficult to change since even if able to fall asleep on one’s back, sometimes people turn at night and you can’t do much while asleep to prevent that. One thing that can help in some is a weighted blanket.

 The little bit of extra resistance can be enough to let the body know to stop when trying to turn. For side sleepers, turning back and forth can also be an issue, as can having the body twist one way or the other. A pillow between the knees can help, though even better is a body pillow so you can wrap your arm around it to again keep give a little bit of resistance to your sleeping self to prevent rolling. Stomach sleepers are rarer in the first place and can often turn into side sleepers

fairly easily with a body pillow.

As for what kind of firmness your bed should be depending on what sort of sleeper you are, back sleepers will generally do well with a firm mattress and side sleepers should be ‘slightly’ firm. Avoid soft.

The side sleeper should have at least a bit of give just to accommodate for the different areas of the body having different weights and so should sink in at least a bit more at those areas to maintain support, but too soft will just bend one just as much the other way as if sleeping on concrete.

 With pillows, the best sort for a back sleeper is a cervical pillow. Basically, it’ll have a bit of a curve to support the neck, a grove for the head, and a smaller curve on the other end to support the rounding of

the skull. Getting even more generic, a single flat, slightly firm pillow is best.

 For a side sleeper, however, I’ve seen plenty of different fancy pillow options and heard good things about some and bad about others, so for now I’ll just go off general advice for regular pillows. Two is going to be ideal; a flat and firm one as the base of support with a medium, softer pillow on top.

 The reason for two is to help bridge the gap between the shoulders and the head when on one’s side while the softer pillow on top will be

able to conform to the curve of the head.

 So if you’ve been dealing with a bad bed or pillow for a while, be sure to fix that problem, but also get your spine sorted out as well and back in alignment. Or if you’ve been travelling (or dealing with a hospital bed) and recovering from a temporary bad sleeping situation, we can help with that, too.

 We have three doctors at Jorde Chiropractic Clinic and our hours are MWF 9-5:30, TTh 9-12:30, and Sat 9- 12. We’re located at 2821 S Center Ave and you can call us at 605-335-0880 or find us online at jordechiropractic.com

Dr. Joshua Jorde—thanks for the visit---

American Heart Month—Chrissy Meyer is scheduled next

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Chrissy Meyer—American Heart Association

 — More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year1 . This February, during American Heart Month, the American Heart Association is calling on everyday citizens to be agents of change by stepping in as the first responder until professional help arrives. Nine out of every 10 people who experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die, in part because they do not receive immediate CPR more than half of the time2 . In rural areas, where EMS response times can be longer, having individuals respond quickly with CPR and using an AED if one is available is key to improving outcomes from cardiac arrest. The American Heart Association, devoted to changing the future to a world of healthier lives for all, envisions communities where people don’t wait for help—they become it. The Association’s Nation of Lifesavers initiative offers suggestions on how to take charge of your personal health and inspire a Nation of Lifesavers this American Heart Month: 1. Learn CPR and join the Nation of Lifesavers™. In South Dakota, individuals and families can take an online or in-person CPR course, watch a 90-second video to learn HandsOnly CPR for adults or watch this video to learn how to save an infant or child using CPR with breaths. To learn more about CPR, including new CPR guidelines published in Circulation this fall, visit heart.org/nation. 2. Make a plan. During a cardiac emergency, a well-developed plan could make all the difference. Don’t wait for help, become it. Remember, you are the first responder until professional help arrives. A cardiac emergency response plan or (CERP) establishes specific steps to reduce death from cardiac arrest in any setting – be it a school, community organization, workplace or sports facility. Learn more about CERPs and find free resources at heart.org/cerp. 3. Get Local. Join a local Heart Walk. Strong communities are built by preparedness. So check in. Lace up. Whether it’s joining a Heart Walk team, taking a CPR class or making sure your office, school or church has a plan, now is the time to take charge of your own health and the health of your community. Cardiac arrest can affect anyone, anywhere - at the gym, in the grocery store, or during a child’s soccer game. However, bystanders only intervene less than half of the time,

Lets talk more in this month of February---American Heart Month—

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  We’ll talk during this Heart month—with more on health care---Dakota Abilities---and we’ll check what is happening in Pierre today with the Legislature---

----------for now—our time is up--thank you for yours