Until my back went outta whack, little did I think me, moi, I, a fitness professional, would ever need treatment! After all, my knowledge base, treatment protocol is on par with a doctor’s, I can fix myself, have done it for years! Not exactly, not this time… Listen up Unilocalers, here’s my industry’s,“dirty little secret; look great, feel like crap.” Yup, we’re not overweight, nor do we have cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes, elevated cholesterol, or osteoporosis but the wear and tear on joints, connective tissue/orthopedic ailments from getting more fitness in a week than most get in a month with no recovery time for those of us too stupid to have married well or to have created passive income, and did all that exercise for 30+ years, puts us right up there with the rest of the insured. «Wow, good to see you, you look great!» «I feel like crap!» And then Dr. Lisella watched me hobble into her treatment room, assessing my nonagenarian gate, a victim of a fluke move that exacerbated an old sports injury. Heat, blocking, massage, strategic manipulation(no bone cracking), ultra sound left me more mobile the second I stood up, the relief brought tears to my eyes, and now, post treatment, feeling better. And there will be follow-up visits to be sure the treatment segues into cure. But it won’t last unless I do the homework she gave me. Yes, as in physical therapy, there’s homework because injuries, biomechanical weaknesses, are forever to be addressed aggressively when you’re in an acute phase and prophylactically once you’re feeling alright. Dr. Lisella sees patients Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, accepts insurance(check your plan with her), and Medicare in an unpretentious, professional office setting. Free, one hour parking on the south side of Ocean Park Boulevard, as well as, in the lot behind her office.