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TMA Colorado Myositis Support Group has reactivated and meets on the second Saturday of each month at noon Mountain Time!<\/p>\n
Meet Jim Milani, a TMA member who was moved by the efforts of the late Marianne Moyer and the TMA Southwest Florida\u2019s success in organizing a Myositis Symposium for Physical and Occupational Therapists for\u00a0 Myositis Awareness Month. He called Rachel Bromley, TMA\u2019s Senior Manager of Patient Education, Support and Advocacy to offer to organize one in his home state of Colorado. Rachel was ecstatic, as Marianne\u2019s vision had always been for this event to branch out to other TMA groups! One catch though – TMA Colorado had been dormant for quite some time. So she swung for the fences and said \u201cHow about reactivating the Colorado group at the same time? You can connect more PTs and OTs that way, find a few volunteers to possibly help your efforts, and provide and receive support for myositis along the way!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jim replied with one word \u201cSURE!\u201d And so this journey began.<\/span><\/p>\n For the past 20 years, Jim has been a Physical Therapist and is Board Certified as a Geriatric Specialist. After several years of misdiagnoses, he was correctly diagnosed with IBM in late 2023. Despite this, Jim continues to pursue his love for activity and sports. He is passionate about sharing his personal and professional “fitness forward” philosophy, helping people understand how to modify and adapt exercises to their functional level. Jim resides in Colorado with his wife, Laura. He is a proud father of six adult children and has two grandchildren. Jim says his family and faith help him get through each day. While there is much about IBM that he cannot control, he focuses on what he can: his attitude and effort. #justkeepswimming<\/span><\/p>\n