Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Heidys Martinez is a registered bilingual physical therapist with 33 years of experience. After graduating with a pedagogic teaching degree from high school in her native country of Colombia, she enrolled at The Metropolitan Health Science University in Barranquilla, Colombia to earn her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy. Shortly after, she moved to the United States to become a board-certified physical therapist in Florida and Tennessee.
Ms. Martinez evaluates and treats a variety of Neurologic and Orthopedic disorders, including sports injuries, balance and vestibular disorders, degenerative nerve and muscle diseases, strokes, Parkinson's disease, joint replacements, and gait disorders, among other rehabilitative conditions.
Heidys is an avid reader and a devoted clinician who finds reward in helping patients obtain the best care. With vast experience and exposure to the diverse population of South Florida, Heidys has kept herself in the vanguard of current physical therapy practices and techniques available throughout the years.
Jason Berlongieri, DPT, is a board-certified clinical specialist in neurologic physical therapy. As the Director of Rehabilitation, Dr. Berlongieri serves patients at The Neurology Institute.
After graduating high school, Dr. Berlongieri enlisted in the United States Army as an airborne infantryman. He served 4.5 years with the 82nd Airborne Division with two combat deployments to Afghanistan. He left the U.S. Army as a combat airborne infantry squad leader with the rank of sergeant.
After the Army, Dr. Berlongieri ran the Chicago marathon in 2011. He went on to his formal education to receive a bachelor's degree in pre-physical therapy at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois.
Upon completion, he began his graduate education in 2015 at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, to receive a doctoral degree in physical therapy. In 2018, he completed a neurological residency program for physical therapy at Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Florida.
Dr. Berlongieri treats all stages of vestibulopathy, peripheral nerve disorders, CVA, TBI, concussion, and other forms of neurological diagnoses, including degenerative conditions such as Parkinson's Disease. He is passionate about helping others improve the quality of their lives by optimizing movement.
Heather Previll, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist with 20 years of clinical experience working in various settings. She specializes in outpatient orthopedics, including post-operative rehabilitation, and is currently working at Easy Reach Chiropractic & Physical Therapy in Fort Lauderdale and Lake Worth, Florida.
Dr. Previll was born and raised in New Jersey. She received her Bachelor's degree in exercise science from Rutgers University, her master's degree in physical therapy from Dominican College in New York, and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Arcadia University in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Previll believes in treating the body as a whole and incorporates yoga, Pilates, and other exercise methods into her treatments. She is certified in Pelvic Floor, Kinesio taping, and other Manual Therapy techniques such as Maitland, McKenzie, Mulligan, and pressure point release.
Before settling in Palm Beach County with her husband and two children in 2020, she practiced physical therapy in multiple states and countries.
South Florida Interventional Orthopedics and Spine has one office in Davenport, Florida, and another in Miami. Led by double board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Seth Kaufman, DO, he and his team focus on using conservative treatments to help their patients avoid surgery unless it’s absolutely necessary. The practice provides the local communities with accurate diagnosis and high-quality treatment.
Dr. Kaufman believes that a physiatrist (a doctor who specializes in medical solutions to musculoskeletal disorders) is the best person for patients to see before consulting an orthopedic surgeon. As he says, when patients have chest pain, they don’t go to a cardiothoracic surgeon but a cardiologist.
Similarly, a patient with a headache would visit a neurologist rather than a neurosurgeon, while a person with stomach pain would go to a gastroenterologist before calling on a colorectal surgeon. Using this logic, it makes sense for patients to first see Dr. Kaufman for their neck, back, or sports injury pain before seeing an orthopedic surgeon.
Patients can be confident of the highest quality treatment. Dr. Kaufman has extensive experience and has undergone fellowship training.
He has also worked extensively with some of the most highly trained spine surgeons in the world. Those surgeons included staff members at the Mayo Clinic (which has campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona), Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
South Florida Interventional Orthopedics and Spine specializes in the nonoperative treatment of neck, lower back, and musculoskeletal pain. They use nonsurgical techniques to treat arthritis, herniated discs, spinal stenosis, sciatica, as well as neck, back, shoulder, hip, and knee pain.
Treatments include epidural steroid injections, facet blocks, hyaluronic acid injections, rhizotomy (radiofrequency ablation), and precision medicine treatments like PRP (platelet-rich plasma). On the rare occasions that these treatments don’t work, Dr. Kaufman refers patients to the appropriate specialists.
South Florida Interventional Orthopedics and Spine is firmly committed to a patient-centered, conservative approach to treating musculoskeletal disorders. Call their Davenport or Miami office today or book an appointment online to benefit from their expertise.
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