I needed surgery to remove three large pieces of cartilage in order to straighten my elbow and be able to use my arm for gymnastics again. The surgery went very well and a few months later I was back in the gym practicing. My elbow has felt perfectly normal ever since, even when doing a handstand.

“I felt like Humpty Dumpty and, thankfully, they were able to put me back together again!” exclaims F.W., a former nurse technician who benefited from the skills of two outstanding surgeons at Columbia Orthopaedics.

 I was uncomfortable with having a total shoulder replacement as this was considered new technology until I ran into a friend who happens to be a senior physical therapist for professional tennis players.  He recommended I seek treatment at Columbia-Presbyterian, who have leading practitioners of shoulder and elbow solutions for athletes.  I interviewed Dr. Levine and he, “impressed me first as a person I could be confident with and as a doctor in the area that my problems existed.”