Jennifer Zito, 53, rarely skips a workout. Since her long distance running days in high school, she’s stayed active, practicing yoga and martial arts several times a week. Both activities require a lot of hip stretching. “It’s important to have a good range of motion,” Zito says.
Paul Monthie, 68, of Port Jefferson Station had put up with the pain in his knees for years. “It was a progressive thing where I just wore them out,” he said. “I had put off surgery until it really impinged on how I did things. I couldn’t carry my own grandson safely down the stairs.…
Michael Gibson of Ronkonkoma was coaching at an indoor sports facility in Port Jefferson last February when “everything just went dark”. Mr. Gibson suffered cardiac arrest. “I was clinically dead”, he told reporters and first responders at a recent press conference at South Shore University Hospital (SSUH) in Bay Shore. Fortunately, there were three people…
Jo-Ann Raia, an 82-year-old retired Huntington elected town official, has suffered from severe wound infections for a few years. What started as a blister from a pedicure, quickly turned into an infected wound that required immediate attention. Her primary care doctor recommended she see a wound specialist, so she made an appointment at Mather’s Wound Treatment Center.
Jennifer from Coram, a devoted mother and active member in her community, was diagnosed with stage 1 uterine cancer in the fall of 2020 and got a complete hysterectomy
Philip Vecchio thought it was just a bad case of indigestion. Luckily his wife was concerned enough to call 911 for her husband, who suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. By the time Terryville Fire Department Paramedics Stephen Loizos and Frank Abbate arrived on January 20, 2022, Mr. Vecchio, 49, was having…
The last thing Jeffrey Forden remembered was having back pains after working out at home. “He got up and went to the couch and immediately went into cardiac arrest and from that moment, he was gone for maybe 20-30 minutes,” said his wife, Linda Sinanian Forden “I called 911 within seconds and they talked me…
Luz Ramirez, a healthy mother of five from Rocky Point, NY, leads an extremely active life. But on the afternoon of June 14, 2021, she was sitting down in her kitchen eating, and out of nowhere she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She knew right away that something was terribly wrong. “I told…
From limitations to snowball fights It was the kind of moment any mom could have: Holding her 5-year-old son’s hand while standing in the waves at the beach in 2019, Erika Shapiro got knocked down by a big surge, but made sure she didn’t let go of her boy. The pair were fine, but Ms.…
When 70-year-old Barbara Meyer fell while getting into a pool nearly three years ago, she suffered a fracture dislocation of her shoulder. To repair it, Richard Savino, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Long Island Bone & Joint, a division of Orlin & Cohen, working at Mather Hospital, put several pins in her joint, and although the fracture…