At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, we frequently see patients who have suffered ankle injuries or who are experiencing chronic ankle pain of unknown origin. If you are troubled by ankle pain, it is most likely interfering with your daily routine since our ankles bear the weight the minute we are upright. It is best…

At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, we have found that many of our patients, no matter how intelligent, well-read, or highly educated, are confused by certain commonly used medical terms relative to our diagnoses and treatments of spinal and other musculoskeletal disorders. Under our assumption that a well-informed patient is more comfortable with treatment options…

For most patients, finally receiving a diagnosis of fibromyalgia may bring a measure of relief since the wide range of sometimes vague symptoms of this disorder is often mistaken (by doctors as well as family, friends, and acquaintances) for hypochondria. As we well know at Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, putting a name to a…

Small muscle spasms on your eyelid, hand or thigh may cause a pulsing sensation, as if a tiny motor has been turned on. They are usually short-term, painless and, though they may be annoying, very rarely indicate a serious disorder. Larger muscle spasms, however, that suddenly knot your calf or tighten your lower back can…

In this unprecedented time of carefully re-entering a world of face masks and social distancing after months of sheltering in place, many of us are feeling a bit like bears after hibernation, some of us eager to get going, others tired from too much resting. The world is different than it was and some of…

If I work on my computer most of the day, how likely am I to develop carpal tunnel syndrome? Most people are familiar with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Either we have experienced the pain and inconvenience of this condition or we know someone who has. Anytime someone spends a lot of time at a computer…

Is knee pain always a sign of arthritis? If you are currently not in a coma or on an extended retreat with the main focus being to avoid contact with the rest of the world, you are constantly exposed to various forms of the media’s 24-hour assault of information, most of which seems to revolve…

How is a frozen shoulder possible and what can be done to treat it? “Frozen” only seems like a strange term for medical professionals to use to describe a physical condition if you think of it in relation to temperature and to being cold. Definition number 2 in the Merriam Webster dictionary describes a state…