Woman lifting weight

How to Avoid Common Weightlifting Injuries

Weightlifting can be an excellent form of exercise, helping you to manage your weight, strengthen your muscles and bones, increase your endurance, and improve your quality of life. Nonetheless, at Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our doctors see many patients whose weightlifting has resulted in painful, sometimes serious injuries. Our practice provides a wide range…

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Patient talking to doctor about his back pain

Good Posture for Pickleball

Invented nearly 60 years ago, pickleball has become increasingly popular during the 21st century. Pickleball is a racket/paddle sport that combines aspects of tennis, ping-pong, and badminton. Two or four players use paddles to hit a lightweight ball (something like a wiffle ball) over a net. Like all sports, pickleball can be entertaining as well…

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woman gardening

Maintaining Good Posture While Gardening

Gardening can be a healthy combination: a way of keeping your yard lovely, a form of physical exercise, and a rejuvenating period of meditative relaxation. However, unless you learn to maintain good posture while gardening, you can end up with aches and pains or even a serious injury.  At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our…

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pregnant woman at the doctor

Ways to Deal with Sciatica Pain During Pregnancy

Along with the exhilaration of bringing a new person into the world, pregnant women too often feel many aches and pains, including sciatica — the shooting pain caused by a stressed or pinched sciatic nerve. Though sciatica can be difficult to live with for 6 months or more, there are several steps you can take…

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Doctor looking at patient's back

Be Mindful of Work-Related Back Injuries

Ironically, at the same time that back pain is a leading cause of workplace absenteeism, a large number of back injuries are work-related. According to a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nearly 70 percent of workers in various occupations report at least one episode  of low back pain during the past year,…

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strained neck

New Year’s Resolutions to Help Back Pain

The trick to keeping New Year’s resolutions is realizing that they are not wishes. You have to take action to make them work. Make this the year that — in spite of the pandemic, global warming, and inflation — you give your back the gift of improved health. If you are suffering  with ongoing back…

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Female runner experiencing joint pain

Why is my Back Pain worse During the Pandemic?

As if everyone didn’t have enough to worry about during the COVID-19 pandemic, health facilities like Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine report seeing an uptick in back pain among their patients. If you are one of these patients, don’t suffer unnecessarily during this period of angst. Our highly skilled physiatrists are here to help. We…

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Woman with back pain consulting physician.

Do the Holidays Hurt your back?

The excitement and joy of the holidays are too often accompanied by stress: Where did we store the lights? Didn’t we give that same gift to Aunt Bessie last year? How could you forget to thaw the turkey? Though we expect the happy hustle and bustle to contain a few moments of anxiety or frustration,…

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Woman experiencing joint pain at her desk

Is your Job Causing you Physical Pain?

While almost every employee has, at some point, referred to her/his job as “a pain,” in many cases there is a very real link between one’s occupation and one’s painful musculoskeletal disorders. At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our doctors often diagnose and treat patients who are suffering neck, back, joint or muscular pain as…

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