General Practitioners

• Arthritis
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Pediatric Care
  East Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp. Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Vincent A. Benenati was awarded the Children of Children Pediatric Foundation (CCPF) Humanitarian Award on Thursday, February 2nd at the CCPF Mission Possible. Vincent, and members of East Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp. (ECOP), have been working with the Children of China Pediatrics Foundation (CCPF) for over 10 years. Vincent and ECOP staff have gone on numerous medical missions over the years to China that have resulted in countless lives bettered and improved.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Surgeons

• Orthopedics
  Prior to his position in Rochester, Mr. Berger worked in private practice where he completed the residency program required to become an ABC certified practitioner, becoming a CPO. As part of his ongoing education, Mr. Berger worked at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was responsible for the orthotic and prosthetic care of children. In addition to an outstanding academic and clinical career, Mr. Berger has given lectures at Strong Hospital’s Rehab department, the Nazareth College School of Physical Therapy, the University Of Buffalo Department Of Orthopedics, as well as ECMC’s Outpatient and Inpatient Physical Therapy departments. Furthermore, Mr. Berger is a frequent guest speaker at the Department of Orthopedics at New York’s Columbia University. Mr. Berger has extensive experience in both upper and lower extremity prosthetic design, fitting and fabrication. His continuing education in those areas has been well documented. Recently he has done clinical work with the Utah arm for trans radial, trans humeral, shoulder disarticulation and four quarter shoulder amputations. He also has extensive clinical expertise in the fitting of microprocessor controlled systems for lower extremity amputees. He has experience with advanced technologies to include, computerized knee systems, and computerized ankle systems and myo-electric systems. Mr. Berger has also done extensive work with the orthotic patient population with a myriad of orthotic patients to include stroke, paralysis, orthopedic patients, scoliosis and all orthotic and prosthetic issues related to diabetes.

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
  East Coast Orthotic and Prosthetic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of custom orthotic devices. Our practitioners have a wide range of experiences in designing custom orthotic devices to support or correct musculoskeletal functions.  These functions may need correction and/or support due to a range of reasons including temporary or permanent conditions, sports injuries, trauma or congenital disabilities. Each device is custom designed by one of our practitioners and our hard working lab to create a device that accommodates the patient’s medical and personal needs simultaneously.
• Physical Therapy
  The NYRC Brace with Smart Brace Technology is based on Schroth therapy and Barcelona Scoliosis Physical Therapy School methods. It has been developed with the most advanced CAD CAM technologies to provide for each case the most reliable and effective results during the conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. An innovative technology is used to simulate the effectiveness of each NYRC Brace prior to manufacture to optimize the success rate of treatment.
• Orthotics and Prosthetic Therapy
  East Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp. employ a team of experts who have over 100 years combined experience dealing with patients with scoliosis. These skilled professional experts have received extensive training so that they best meet the needs of our patients. Our main professional expert, John Tunney, BOCPO, has over a decade of experience working in orthotics and prosthetics and has trained overseas to master his understanding of Dr. Manuel Rigo and the Rigo Cheneau brace. Mr. Tunney and our team have been trained extensively to further master the teachings of Dr. Rigo and as a result, have developed the NYRC Brace with Smart Brace Technology. The NYRC Brace with Smart Brace Technology is a highly customized brace manufactured with the most advanced technologies that helps scoliosis patients in ways that other devices cannot.

Podiatrists

• Heel Spurs
• Foot Orthotics
• Plantar Fasciitis