ShareGary Schaefer’s fingers were, as his coworkers said, falling off the bone. After experiencing pain, deformity and loss of function from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis for 13 years and seeing specialist after specialist, the long-time Brick resident said he believed there was no treatment.
Recent News
We are the official team orthopaedic doctors for the Cedar Stars Academy (Monmouth)!
We are proud to announce that our doctors have been named Top Doctors of 2016 by New Jersey Monthly Magazine for the fourth consecutive year!
This honor is awarded each year to New Jersey doctors across all medical specialties who have been nominated by other area physicians for outstanding performance and patient care.
Dr. David R. Gentile congratulates gymnast Laurie Hernandez for her outstanding accomplishments in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Hernandez won a gold medal as part of the U.S. Women’s gymnastics team in the all-around team competition, and she won a silver medal on the balance beam.
Hernandez has been a patient of Professional Orthopaedic Associates for over two years.
Dr. Jason D. Cohen, board-certified and fellowship-trained spinal surgeon, recently received the 2016 Golden Apple Award for surgical excellence from Monmouth Medical Center, where he also serves as the Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery!
Dr. Cohen directs the Professional Spine and Scoliosis Center's team here at POA, and he specializes in cervical, thoracic, and lumbar problems including spinal surgery, sciatica, herniated discs, scoliosis, and degenerative disorders.
We are excited to be a Pink Partner with Paint the Town Pink, a Meridian Health event, during the month of May!
Paint the Town Pink is a community-wide effort to raise awareness for the importance of annual mammography. The goal is to encourage women in our community, aged 40 and older, to have their annual mammogram, to raise money to provide mammography to uninsured or under-insured women in our community, and to make a difference in the lives of women in our community.
Our very own Dr. Jason Saleh provides insight on reverse shoulder replacement in the following article:
Check out these tips from our very own Dr. Jason Saleh!
With repeated use, our body can get a little rusty. In studying orthopaedic surgery I have noticed a few parts of the human body that tend to wear out more quickly than the rest. Here are the exercises that I think everyone should do several times a week to maximize the chance for functional, pain-free (and surgery-free) aging.
We are proud to announce that our doctors have been named Top Doctors of 2015 by New Jersey Monthly Magazine for the third consecutive year!
This honor is awarded each year to New Jersey doctors across all medical specialties who have been nominated by other area physicians for outstanding performance and patient care.
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