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Serving a community
Tennis group opens summer classes at Ingersoll Houses
Photo by Trey Pentecost
‘Everything burned’
Kensington cellphone store gutted by fi re
Photo by Md Faruq
BREAKTHROUGH
TECHNOLOGY
RELIEVES BACK PAIN
Local doctor
treats herniated
and bulging discs,
Surgeons perform an estimated
300,000 to 400,000 back surgeries every
year. Annually, neurosurgeons perform
at least 100,000 operations for lumbar
disc disease alone, and orthopedic surgeons
perform a similar number. It is
estimated that between 20% and 40%
of these operations are unsuccessful.
That is why doctors from all over
the country are racing to acquire and
get trained to operate the DRX9000TM,
an FDA approved device that is saving
thousands of Americans suffering from
chronic back pain from going under the
knife.
Dr. Melinda Keller, who treats serious
back pain without surgery explains
how the DRX9000TM works... “Over
10 years ago, NASA began to notice
an unexpected result of space travel:
Astronauts that left with back pain would
come back without it. After investigated
this now phenomenon here’s what they
found: During the anti-gravity state of
the mission there were decompressive
forces on the intervertebral discs and
sciatica,
and serious
lower back pain
back pain was relieved. How? When
you travel through space, the effects
of gravity are removed and you are in
a weightless state. All the pressure is
taken off your spine and discs. Even
better — and this is the key — a negative
pressure is created. This negative
pressure actually sucks the herniated
material back into the disc and allows it
to heal. Thanks to the DRX9000TM, disc
herniation sufferers finally have a nonsurgical
solution.”
The main conditions the DRX9000TM
has documented success with are back
pain, sciatica, herniated and/or bulging
discs (single or multiple), degenerative
disc disease, facet syndromes and a
relapse or failure following back surgery.
Anyone wishing to learn more about
this new FDA approved solution to back
pain or to set up an appointment for a
free consultation call Dr. Keller’s office
at 718-234-6212 or visit Brooklyn Spine
Center, 5911 16th Avenue, Brooklyn,
NY 11204. Brooklynspinecenter.com.
DRX9000TM
WITHOUT
BACK SURGERY
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
It’s a real racket!
A tennis club celebrated
its first summer season at the
Ingersoll Houses on Myrtle
Avenue on May 4.
The Bedford-Stuyvesantbased
do-gooder group Kings
County Tennis League opened
its sixth NYCHA site at the
public housing complex at
Flatbush Avenue Extension,
giving kids from the community
between the ages of 5 and
10 a chance to grab a racket
and learn all about the benefits
of the sport, according
to one of the coaches.
“Tennis can teach a lot of
good values like determination,”
said Lauren Reid.
“It’s an individual sport so
it teaches resiliency of relying
on yourself.”
There will be weekly
courses every Saturday during
the summer at the Fort Greene
complex, which gives the kids
a chance to play a sport they
may not be exposed to that often
right in their back yard,
according to Reid.
“It’s tennis right where they
live so they can take ownership,”
she said.
The group also teaches
the youngsters what it calls
Tennis coach Deyvi Cordero gives some tips to
Douglas, 6, and Darwin, 7.
“life lessons,” which includes
some basic science education
as well as mentoring from the
volunteers.
For example, one young
girl during the winter season
was frustrated when she kept
missing her shots, but after
some coaching she learned
to take a better approach to
the sport, Reid said.
“We talked about how we
can’t always win, we have to
keep trying,” she said.
Reid oversaw the group’s
first program at that location
at the nearby Ingersoll Community
Center last winter and
she said that she notices how
the pint-sized players have already
improved their skills
since then.
“They got to practice forehand
and backhand and it was
good to see how they had progressed,”
she said.
The group planned to inaugurate
the outdoor courts
at Fleet Walk, but due to the
rain, they had to move the
games back into the indoor
courts inside the community
center for the day.
According to the program’s
leader, the group aims to give
the kids a chance to try something
new while doing some
healthy exercise too.
“Ingersoll takes us another
significant step forward towards
our vision of giving every
child in Brooklyn regular
access to an activity that
is healthy, stimulates their
personal growth, and exposes
them to new concepts, cultures,
people, and possibilities,”
said David Webley.
People can register for
the summer season at www.
kingscountytennisleague.org/
summer-season .
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
A fire gutted a Kensington
cellphone shop early Monday
morning, reducing the store
and its inventory to a pile of
char, witnesses say.
“Everything burned down,”
said Mir Chowdhury, who
works at a medical office located
within the same building
as the cell store. “Nothing’s
left.”
New York’s Bravest were
called to battle a blaze inside
a first-floor cell store at the
Dahill Road building between
Louisa Street and Church Avenue
at 2:23 a.m. on May 13,
sending 12 units of 60 firefighters
and paramedics rushing
to quell the inferno, which
they quenched following an
hour-long battle, according to a
spokesman for the FDNY.
Two firefighters were later
treated for minor injuries resulting
from the fire, according
to the FDNY spokesman.
Several other first-floor
commercial properties located
within the building
appeared undamaged by the
fire Monday afternoon, except
for a strong odor of smoke,
which caused the manager of
a pharmacy located there to
leave his doors open despite
the chilly temperature.
The cause of the fire has
yet to be determined and is
Fire gutted a Dahill Road cellphone store Monday. under investigation.
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