For nearly 40 years, Michael Connolly, a 61-year-old Old Bridge resident, had suffered from knee pain that first began after a lacrosse injury in college. His career didn’t help matters; he worked for 36 years as a motion picture, theatrical, and television teamster, driving a truck to move [...]
Dee Nemeth had rarely been sick in his life, so it was unusual when the 75-year-old Freehold resident began experiencing bloating last fall. After seeking care at a health clinic, he was sent to CentraState’s Emergency Department for a potential gall bladder issue. There, he was diagnosed with a [...]
Rock Steady Boxing can help patients improve balance, strength, and agility. Ken Springer goes to the gym twice every week to box his enemy. But he’s not fighting against any ordinary opponent—this one is a degenerative movement disorder that causes a deterioration of motor skills, balance, speech, and sensory function. [...]
Before the program, Mark Herman was falling frequently. “He was very unsteady,” his wife, Barbara, recalls. “Frankly, it was very frightening.” Mark, a Jackson resident, had been living with Parkinson’s disease for the past four years, and his now 72-year-old body was having difficulty performing everyday tasks. His recurrent falls were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Based on his age and family history, 78-year-old Robert C. Blum was particularly vigilant about his prostate health. "My father passed away from prostate cancer in his mid-to-late 70s, so I've been getting checked every year," says the Jackson resident and former presiding judge for the municipal courts [...]
By Troy Sukkarieh, MD It only takes a lump the size of a pea in your testicle to signal something serious. It’s estimated that 8,850 American men will develop testicular cancer this year. It is most frequently diagnosed in men aged 20 to 34. And, like several [...]
By Emily Bessemer, DPT, CLT-LANA Imagine suddenly feeling like you have to urinate at a crowded event, or urinating every time you cough or sneeze. For many women and men, this is a frequent concern that seriously impacts the quality of their lives. Whether caused by a medical issue, [...]
Leon Rozenblat, 56, hadn’t been feeling well despite four stents his cardiologist had inserted and normal stress test results. Leon was experiencing a sense of pressure on his chest, constant fatigue, flushing and severe headaches. Unable to drive back to his cardiologist on Long Island, Leon made an appointment, at his wife’s urging, [...]
