Avoided surgery I thought was inevitable
I came in expecting surgery on my knee. I left with a rehab plan and a clear timeline. Six months later I was back to running half-marathons — without an OR visit.
Fellowship-trained surgeons. Manhattan and Brooklyn offices.
Schedule a ConsultationFrom spine to ankle, our surgeons handle the full range of orthopedic conditions with motion-preserving techniques and same-week imaging.
Our team has been treating high-performance athletes and active patients for over twenty years. We bring the precision of a tertiary academic center into a private-practice setting where you are the priority — not a chart number.
We are surgeons, but we treat conservative care as the default. Most patients we see leave with a guided rehab plan, an imaging-informed diagnosis, and no scalpel. Surgery is reserved for the cases where it is genuinely the best path forward — and when it is, we use the least-invasive technique that solves the problem.
I came in expecting surgery on my knee. I left with a rehab plan and a clear timeline. Six months later I was back to running half-marathons — without an OR visit.
Dr. Rivera explained my disc herniation in a way that finally made sense. The cervical disc replacement he did was textbook — I was driving in two weeks.
After three other consults, this was the first practice that felt like the surgeon was actually going to be the one treating me. No bait-and-switch.
Achilles rupture mid-game. Surgery same week, walking boot at four weeks, back to easy runs by month five. The return-to-sport protocol made the difference.
Tore my hip labrum playing club soccer. The arthroscopic repair was done outpatient and I was back to running in twelve weeks – not the year I'd been told to expect.
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