Panetta Physical Therapy

My mother repeatedly told me «Actions speak louder than words», so please consider my actions: 1) After being treated by Dr. Phil Caruso over a year ago following extensive bunion surgery (and enjoying a greater range of motion after the procedure than before), I then: 2) returned recently for neck and shoulder pain, which were treated highly effectively with hands-​on massage, weight exercises, and gentle electrical muscle stimulation; then: 3) referred my wife, who was experiencing musculoskeletal chest pain and began experiencing relief after the first session; and — yet to come — 4) plan on having our daughter treated after her anticipated bunion surgery next year. (Poor thing follows in my footsteps, literally.) We have complete confidence in Doctors Phil and Steve and the friendly, supportive staff who back them up.

All these other major five start reviews? Phil deserves a 6^th star! I have also been to PT «factories» where I felt like a rat in a maze. Phil has now rehabbed both my knee and my shoulder, to great success! Both instances the dr. recommended surgery. I opted to try PT first and boy was this skeptic surprised. Phil is a consummate professional with the magic touch. If you are in pain… Try PT first… and make that Phil Caruso!
Andrea

I hold excruciatingly high standards, as a physicist, and understand fully well the statistical expectation from varying systems, including physical therapy which I needed for a torn rotator cuff. In what should have been a routine experience manifested into an abruptly painful and stressful mishap from your common place PT (typically recommended from a surgeon or hospital) which opened my awareness of our healthcare system, up until Panetta Physical Therapy saved not only my shoulder, but my well being and future functionality.
You see, most if not all healthcare facilities function on a business level as much as a provider of healthcare. After my rotator cuff repair by one of the best orthopods on Long Island which I found and shortlisted from forty eight top surgeons, I didn’t research PT facilities and instead let my hospital staff recommend their PT which is standard operating procedure. Most hospitals will push their PT which is a business arm of the hospital (e.g. prohealthcare or north shore
.s.) which is a cookie cutter model and is satisfactory for general requirements. But where a cookie cutter assembly line model lacks is where Panetta PT is brilliant in depth and scope of quality, perseverance and skill set beyond standard textbook protocols, in the 99^th percentile.
I was about 8 weeks post op and I was progressing beyond my PT’s expectations. So much so my PT took a chance and performed active resistance about three weeks prior to and without my surgeon’s script. For whatever reason, my unscripted PT session resulted in the most painful experience I ever experienced. Naturally, my PT and entire staff was extremely worried and I was iced downed and hoped for the best. My pain never abated after one week of sleepless nights and my body couldn’t tolerate pain killers to compensate for the intense pain. My surgeon immediately issued an MRI and was worried my pins may possibly have loosened, or worse. Luckily the MRI revealed it was extreme tendinitis from an «overworked shoulder» and structurally my tendons were healing perfectly and pins were unaffected. My surgeon scripted no shoulder use for two weeks along with ice and anti inflammatory (Ecotrin) I could tolerate. My surgeon examined my shoulder two weeks later and issued a script for PT.
Needless to say, I intensely research for the best Physical Therapy and after I interviewed the shortlist of PTs, I elected Panetta Physical Therapy in Roslyn, NY.
They not only invested more exhaustive study of my particular case, but also spent almost twice as much time with hands on manipulation which I never had with the standard cookie cutter PT. My therapist works with me by my side instead of leaving me alone with other less experienced personnel. In addition Panetta PT is seriously committed to your rehabilitation by not sharing my time divided among other patients! From my first session I have recuperated with more strength and range than I have ever experienced from my prior PT’s progress (and is unfortunately the standard).
I can not recommend enough what Panetta Physical Therapy has done for my shoulder, my well being and my future. They literally saved my quality of life and then some. Oddly enough, my mother had her hip replaced and she too underwent PT but at s.t.a.r.s. which after one month developed intense pain. Her HSS surgeon issued a script for a bursa injection which gave her very limited relief. After my success with Panetta PT I urged her to try them for a free consult. After one session (she’s on her third now) she is almost pain free, fully active and very happy. There’s nothing like her smile of being virtually pain free.
In summary, if you’re looking for a PT, please keep my review in mind and make the leap you owe yourself, your life and those of your loved ones by keeping Panetta on your list of the top care for your rehabilitation.

Went there after I had my left shoulder separated during judo practice.
Orthopedist recommended this place.
Courteous and helpful staff.
The PTs were very professional and friendly.
Clean and well maintained facility.
Each visit consisted of stretching, massage, heating the shoulder and cooling the shoulder after done with couple sets of exercises.
Definitely recommend this place to anybody that needs physical therapy. The staff are helpful and the PT’s are very professional, knowledgable and treat you with great care. You’ll be back on track in no time with their help.

Back again. This time with shoulder pain, lack of arm movement and pain down my arm. If you’ve had that you know how debilitating it can be. Lucky for me, Phil was available to treat me. Over a period of just a few weeks, he worked with me to stretch, get back range of motion and strength.
His hands on approach and warm personality, made even the painful exercises fly by.
Phil’s expertise also discovered a neck weakness that may have been exacerbating the arm and shoulder issue. We worked on that, as well.
As with Terese, Phil listened to my issues and solved them with methodical increase in exercies and follow up. I appreciate his ability to listen and provide an individual program to meet my needs.
The rest of the staff, especially Jennifer makes the office «user friendly».
There is no better PT in the area and it’s worth the ride if you live further away.

I work as a personal trainer to an elite client list in Manhattan, so you can imagine I was pretty drastically knocked out of orbit when I completely tore the tendon in my left bicep at the end of July this year. Distal bicep tendon rupture. My bicep rolled up into my arm like a window shade. Not only was I suddenly half the man I’d been a moment earlier, but my world and everything that went with it… new wife, new car, new home… was suddenly in very real and very serious jeopardy, you see, if I don’t work I don’t get paid. (I mean, the new wife would’ve PROBABLY stuck around if I went belly up HAHA just kidding babe, in case you’re reading this) It’s scary, the thought of everything suddenly collapsing around you in an instant. I received surgery a week later and the surgeon told me I could expect to be back in action in 6 – 8 months! I could expect a full YEAR until I got back full mobility and strength in my left arm! A YEAR!!! He also told me I didn’t really need therapy, I could get by on just some simple stretching techniques he showed me and that I should keep my arm in the sling they gave me for 5 weeks until they brought me back in for a check up.
Boy, am I glad I got a second opinion!
I searched pretty thoroughly on the internet and, as a fellow health and wellness professional, was very impressed with Panetta on many levels. When I went in for the consult and met with DPT Phil Caruso I was sold. I was impressed not only by his expansive knowledge, but also by his HONESTY… He told me he was dedicated to bringing something to my therapy experience that he, himself, had found lacking during his own knee injury some years before. Fellow Unilocalers, listen to me… HE MEANT EVRY WORD. He put such extra time and effort into my recovery I cannot explain in words just how truly touched I am. He made me want to be a better trainer to my own clients! LOL I’m serious. We all know that in the everyday grind we can sometimes fall into a zone of «comfortablity» and forget what it means to really approach our jobs with the utmost attention and INtention everyday. But, somehow, Phil has found the focus and motivation to bring 110% to every session I had with him and for that I am so extraordinarily GREATFUL.
THIS LEFT ARM IS MY LIFE. If it wasn’t for Phil I would’ve never known I should NOT be in a sling, but actually a mobility-​controlled arm brace. I would’ve never known that I should be not only stretching, but flossing the nerves. I would’ve never known the correct way to supinate my wrist, Doing it incorrectly was already causing me terrible pain by the time I’d started with him a few week behind schedule. Honestly, I COULD NOT list here the amount of things Phil has done for me.
And now, my fellow Unilocalers… Here is the update: I am only FOUR MONTHS into my work with Phil and ALREADY I’m back to the gym! I’m 4 – 8 months AHEAD of schedule according to the doctor’s forecast. Pretty amazing, you say? I would have to say I agree with you! Most certainly!
Phil… From the bottom of my heart I Thank you… You saved my life.
Sincerely,
Craig Groshans, CPT

This place is great and even better staff. I had vertigo pretty bad from a car accident, got a prescription for PT and shopped around for the best price and ended up coming here for a free consultation. I was actually given a home exercise program and instruction of one exercise that got ride of the vertigo within 2 – 3 days. It didn’t cost me anything. The guy I used was Phil, who was extremely nice, knowledgeable and easy to talk to. I’ve been to a lot of PT places (unfortunately, I am injury prone) and it always seems they want you to come in as much as possible, which is hard for me to do considering I work 10 – 12 hours a day. If I have to go to PT again I am definitely coming here because I know I can trust them with my injury and time.

Excellent treatment and friendly staff!
I went to Panetta for knee pain after seeing an orthopedist who highly recommended them. The receptionists, aides, and PT’s were all so nice and professional. The office itself is a nice clean environment and you can tell its maintained well.
The Pt’s are hands on meaning they actually massage and stretch you every visit, which you will not find at many offices. They also used heat, ice and stim because my knees hurt so bad I could hardly walk up the stairs in my house. I could tell my PT really cared about getting me back to the activities I couldn’t do anymore (bike riding, running etc.) I felt a little better after each visit. She also gave me an exercise program and taught me how to do each activity. Now I am stonger than I have ever been!
Thanks to panetta I can work without pain and continue doing the activites I love.