Give Yourself Time To Ease Back Into Fitness - Be Kind To Yourself
Give Yourself Time To Ease Back Into Fitness - Be Kind To Yourself
If you quit exercising during the pandemic and are staring at your swimsuit, then you might want to think about resuming--or starting--an exercise routine. Like returning to daily life, however, going back to working out--no matter how fit you we
Is Quarantine Giving You Headaches, Back Pain, and More? - by Amanda Mull of The Atlantic featuring Dr. Jaspal R. Singh
Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body. Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk. Click here to read more.
Is Quarantine Giving You Headaches, Back Pain, and More? - The Atlantic
How to Prevent Back Pain While Working From Home?
Click here to watch Dr. Jaspal Ricky Singh talk about how to prevent back pain while working from home on Good Day New York!
Healthy at Home: Building Strength, Nutrition and Resilience
Experts agree that a healthy lifestyle, including exercise and good nutrition, can improve your general well-being and lower your risk of serious illness and disability. Striving to be your healthiest self is also essential when you are recovering from stroke, an injury, infection or medical procedure. Three leading Weill Cornell Medicine experts will guide you through the steps to returning to good health in the comfort of your own home. Featuring: Dr. Jaspal "Ricky" Singh and Janet Lau, RDN, CDN, CLT Moderator: Dr. Joel Stein
Last Patient in COVID Recovery Unit Goes Home!
Tears flow as Agustin Tlathuetl sees his children for the first time in months and thanks his caregivers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for giving him a second chance at life. After two months in the ICU, Tlathuetl's condition slowly but steadily improved, and he was eventually weaned off the ventilator and moved to the COVID Recovery Unit, under the direction of Dr. Leroy Lindsay and Dr. Laura Kolbe.
Recovering from COVID-19? Here are some challenges you may experience.
We now know that being COVID free does not mean recovery. Patients are known to suffer varying after-effects inclduing weakness, P.T.S.D., cognitive decline, among other issues. The New Yorker interviewed Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, one of our Rehabilitation Medicine physicians redeployed on the frontlines, on what health after COVID looks like. Dr. Gellhorn spoke about the importance of rehabilitation to build back strength and cognitive function, in addition to the importance of addressing the mental issues that patients may be suffering.
Recovering from COVID-19: A Patient Guide
Our rehabilitation team has created a rehabilitation program as well as guide to recovery post COVID-19. For more information on both our program and the guide, check out Weill Cornell's COVID-19 Recovery Clinic page.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a telehealth visit with a physician, please call 212-746-1500.
COVID-19 Update for our Patients
Patients who have an appointment scheduled should be in touch with our office to determine if they should:
- Keep the scheduled appointment
- Convert the appointment to a video-visit
- Defer the appointment until a later date when they are able to see the physician in person.
Staff will assist them with adjusting their appointment if needed, including conversion to a televisit.