Yoga Helps With Injuries

Yoga Helps With Injuries.
In the descend of 2010, 34-year-old Ari Steinfeld and his then-fiancee were walking to a New York City synagogue when a speeding machine a moment jumped the curb and plowed into them. The car hit them both, but Steinfeld was more severely injured as the vehicle 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 scraping Steinfeld's get-up-and-go 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 at once 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 mince at my wedding, and that's what I focused on. His coalescence was scheduled for May 2011, just eight months from the accident.

In all, Steinfeld had 10 surgeries, including dominant operations to implant a metal bar 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 Euphemistic pre-owned to have a six-pack abdomen, now it's down to a four-pack," Steinfeld joked. So how did he also gaol that sense of humor and maintain his focus throughout a grueling recovery? Steinfeld credits the lessons he intellectual from practicing yoga for six years before the accident.