Finding Pain Relief in Unexpected Places

Brooke Burke-Charvet takes on a challenge for allergy relief

Chronic pain sufferers urged to seek safe relief from pain physicians

Laser spine surgery helps seniors find relief from lumbar spinal stenosis

Beat the heat 5

A tumble-bucket water feature poured watery relief on Maranans last week.

Nocturnist 2

Nocturnist Steve Gross, MD, meets with patient Tim Hawthorne, who came to the center seeking relief from his back pain.

Healing, respite from horses

Patrick McNamara/The Explorer, Life Center resident Dorothy Myers pets Snickers, a miniature horse that visits nursing homes, hospitals and hospices with its owner, Nancie Roahrig.

ICS dedicates its expanded facility

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, The newly expanded Interfaith Community Services facility includes a conference room, a first for the 23-year-old community group.

First big projects done in NW

Map courtesy Town of Marana, The new Twin Peaks interchange and Twin Peaks Road accomplish a number of mobility improvements, among them access to I-10, relief of congestion at the Cortaro interchange, and linking of two major Marana communities, Dove Mountain and Continental Ranch.

Raising funds for Haiti

Don Boorse/Special to the Explorer, In a fund-raiser organized by the National Honor Society, more than 50 students at Canyon Del Oro ran, walked, dribbled soccer balls and circled the track Sunday to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti. When pledges are collected by Friday, the NHS chapter expects to have just over $1,000, going directly to a relief organization.

Marana girls raised $564 in quake aid

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Jillian Gubler, Soraya Simi, Brandi Dierinzo and Kira Dierinzo sit at a table filled with hand-made bracelets in front of a Fry's grocery store Monday afternoon.

Marana girls raised $564 in quake aid

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, The Marana students collected more than $500 through donations for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti last week. The kids collected money and gave away free bracelets for 6-1/2 hours.

Healing, respite from horses

Patrick McNamara/The Explorer, Nancie Roahrig holds the reigns of J.J. the Clydesdale while speaking with an assisted living resident. Roahrig brings the horses with her to visit the old and sick. She said the contact with animals provides a therapeutic benefit.

Healing, respite from horses

Patrick McNamara/The Explorer, J.J., top, and Snickers loaded into their trailer after visiting the residents of an assisted living community in the Northwest. The horses belong to Nancie Roahrig, who brings the animals to hospitals and hospices around the Tucson area.