Patient Stories

At just 73 years old, David received a lung transplant due to the inability to breathe without the help of an oxygen tank. Prior to his surgery he was wheelchair bound and incredibly limited to any normal daily activities. After the surgery, David did not want to go back to being imobile, he wanted to turn his life around and focus on rebuilding the muscle strength and mobility that he once had. David knew that the pain killers were just “masking the pain,” and the unsupervised gym workouts were making things worse. 

At the age of just fifty years old, Tim received devastating news from his doctor that inevitably changed his life; Tim was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. At the time of Tim’s diagnosis he couldn’t believe what he was hearing, “how can this be happening to me?” he thought. The cancer was progressing and time was of the essence, so Tim’s doctor scheduled him for Robotic Radical Prostatectomy to remove his prostate and lymph nodes. Post surgery, Tim continued to experience extreme pelvic pain and other complications from surgery. After speaking with his doctors, Tim was referred to Limitless for pelvic pain physical therapy. The symptoms that Tim was experiencing resulted in daily discomfort and constant frustration, his doctors said that this pain could last for at least 2 years.

As a busy working Dad, Bert works long hours on the road as a truck driver. One evening after a 14 hour drive, Bert stepped down out of his truck, slipped and twisted his knee. The pain that Bert felt was intense, he immediately knew something was wrong. Fortunately, Bert was able to call for help and get home to rest his knee. The next morning, Bert contacted his company and they directed him to Limitless for a triage visit.

As a busy mom, Martha couldn’t imagine getting injured. She is constantly on the go, between driving her daughter to gymnastic lessons and competitions to all of the other things on her to-do list. Unfortunately for Martha, the inevitable came true one afternoon where she fell and sprained her joint located on the outside of her femur. Life was already a balance, and now this injury made life much more stressful and held Martha back from being her best. 

Born and raised in Geneva, NY. Denise Parks married and started a family. Now at 61, she discovered that she was having unusual balance problems. Denise would find herself randomly falling for no reason, luckily, these falls never resulted in serious injury, but they certainly could have.

An empty nester, with kids in college, Sofia had just started to refocus her life on traveling, a busy job, and building her strength through Crossfit when an injury derailed it all. Life had become a balance between the goals she had, and the injury she had to work around, making it more and more difficult to exercise and make progress towards fitness goals.