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By CentraState Health|2024-01-23T09:12:51-05:00November 1st, 2023|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Neuroscience, Patient Stories|
Rutgers University wrestling coach Jordan Pagano, 27, was recently demonstrating simple wrestling moves with a student-athlete, something he does regularly. When he placed his hands on the mat to change positions, the unexpected happened: he ruptured a disc in his neck. The herniated disc pushed on Jordan’s spinal cord, [...]
By CentraState Health|2021-12-06T14:19:20-05:00January 16th, 2019|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience, Patient Stories|
Brian Giacchi has experienced muscle spasms off and on since age 9. When the condition ramped up in his 20s, he sought medical advice. Unfortunately, several years of doctors’ visits, testing, and frustration failed to solve the mystery. Then finally, at age 34, he got an answer: he had [...]
By CentraState Health|2019-01-17T10:34:18-05:00January 14th, 2019|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Surgery|
A few years ago, Walter “Bud” Burch’s wife, Kathy, found him on the kitchen floor writhing in pain. He had to be carried to their truck before being driven to the emergency department. Suffering from a chronic condition called trigeminal neuralgia, Bud lived with this kind of intense pain [...]
By CentraState Health|2021-12-06T14:07:16-05:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Men’s Health, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience, Patient Stories|
For Bob Granito, the personal obstacles he conquers during a 12-mile Tough Mudder® are harsher than the challenges of a 16-foot-high wall, dangling live wires, or a water pit. A veteran participant of 10 Tough Mudders, the 55-year-old Freehold resident demonstrates that his multiple sclerosis (MS) does not define [...]
By CentraState Health|2020-04-07T09:54:28-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Surgery|
In 1993, Elizabeth Losardo, then 64, and her husband Michael, had just retired from Brooklyn to Monroe Township and were ready to start living the good life—including wintering in Florida. As Elizabeth recalls, it was a normal day. She woke up and merely had an innocent yawn. The next [...]
By CentraState Health|2018-09-05T16:07:13-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Rehabilitation, Stroke|
Ulcerative colitis by itself would have been bad enough. By the time Kristin Detamore, then 35, returned to work as a school social worker after the birth of her second son, she was accustomed to the pain from inflammatory bowel disease. But the headache baffled her. Unfortunately, the headache soon [...]
By CentraState Health|2020-03-24T10:52:30-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Rehabilitation|
Life has been compared to a carousel—sometimes up, sometimes down, and sometimes round and round. No one understands that better than Mary Jean Sehnal, who suffered from vertigo (the sensation of spinning), weakness, and other problems that impaired her balance for the past 10 years. [...]
By CentraState Health|2018-08-21T06:40:27-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Men’s Health, Neuroscience, Patient Stories|
Fred Cerbini had undergone a root canal just two days earlier when he began experiencing problems with his vision. First, he failed to notice a pile of brush on the side of the curb and hit it with his car, and then later that morning he struggled to compose [...]
By CentraState Health|2021-07-28T16:52:46-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Men’s Health, Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Rehabilitation|
In January 2014, 35-year-old Michael Wachter lost control of his vehicle on an icy highway, leaving him with a shattered left collarbone. But following the accident, he didn’t realize he had experienced head trauma. “I was kind of out of it from the accident and the medicine for my [...]
By CentraState Health|2021-12-06T13:56:32-05:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Neuroscience|Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroscience, Patient Stories, Women’s Health|
Almost seven years ago, Daynne Glover had just gotten married and was on top of the world. But when she returned from her honeymoon in St. Lucia in late summer 2007, she recalls, “I just woke up one day and had a lot of numbness in my hands and [...]