Yoga Helps With Injuries

Yoga Helps With Injuries.
In the falling of 2010, 34-year-old Ari Steinfeld and his then-fiancee were walking to a New York City synagogue when a speeding vehicle out of the blue jumped the curb and plowed into them. The car hit them both, but Steinfeld was more severely injured as the or slang motor pinned him against a building, crushing his leg. "Below my right knee was crushed, and it was bleeding heavily. The trauma doctors who treated him were initially focused on economizing Steinfeld's spark of life and weren't sure if they would be able to save his leg, too.

But Steinfeld said that a good friend who was an orthopedist hurriedly researched which doctors in the area would be most likely to save his leg and arranged for him to be treated at the Hospital for Joint Diseases. "I told them I wanted to perambulate at my wedding, and that's what I focused on. His fusing was scheduled for May 2011, just eight months from the accident.

In all, Steinfeld had 10 surgeries, including principal operations to implant a metal baton in his leg and to take abdominal muscle from either side of his abdomen to replace the muscles that had been severed in his leg. "I hand-me-down to have a six-pack abdomen, now it's down to a four-pack," Steinfeld joked. So how did he detain that sense of humor and maintain his focus throughout a grueling recovery? Steinfeld credits the lessons he accomplished from practicing yoga for six years before the accident.