We Are Now Pleased To Offer Therapeutic Yoga!

As our complementary medicine program continues to evolve, we are pleased to offer yoga as an additional rehabilitative tool for our patients. Please read more about this exciting opportunity and learn more about our instructor Jessica and yoga style.  Initially, yoga will be offered in a semi-private or private setting in our Great Neck office….

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Functional exercise programs improve chronic back pain

The field of physiatry is based on the goal of enhancing and restoring functional ability as well as quality of life in patients with injuries or disabilities. An article in this week’s Wall Street Journal highlights the use of this type of treatment of patients with chronic back pain who have been unsuccessfully treated with surgery or narcotic medications with a…

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Dr. Miranda Smith Joins Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine

Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine would like to welcome our latest addition to our family, Dr. Miranda Smith.  Like our other physicians, she is a fellowship-trained Interventional Spine & Sports Medicine physiatrist.  She is also uniquely trained in the latest diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging and ultrasound-guided injection techniques.  She completed her residency and fellowship at…

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WSJ: Conservative Treatment of Back Pain

Today’s Wall Street Journal talks about treatment of back pain.  Whether people experience back pain because they are more active during the summertime or because the pain seemingly appears out of nowhere, most cases can be treated conservatively.  Given time alone, most cases of back pain will resolve on their own with relative rest.  In cases where…

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Our Great Neck Office Has Moved!

We’re excited to announce that our Great Neck office has moved just down the street to a brand new, larger office space at: The Great Neck Colonial Building 560 Northern Boulevard, Suite 204 Great Neck, New York, 11021 icon-phone (516) 441-5940 icon-print (516) 441-5944 We will have physician office hours five days a week and also offer…

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Conservative Care as Effective as Surgery for Symptomatic Meniscal Tear

A new study from the New England Journal of Medicine evaluating patients with symptomatic meniscal tears of the knee and osteoarthritis noted that patients undergoing conservative care did equally well as those who underwent arthroscopic surgery.  An editor for the journal recommended that  “nonoperative treatment is a reasonable first strategy, with surgery reserved for the minority…

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