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North Jersey doctors give advice on treating, preventing shoveling aches, pains

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North Jersey doctors give advice on treating, preventing shoveling aches, pains
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2014, 10:03 AM
BY  STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

This year, Old Man Winter has been a real pain in the neck. And in the shoulders. And in the lower back.

Especially the lower back, says Artie Beltramba, 52, of Little Falls. One of the season’s first storms left him in crippling pain after a round of shoveling.

“It was like somebody stabbed me in the back with a knife,” he said. “I couldn’t do anything.”

For five days he was basically bedridden, nearly unable to sit up without screaming, using ice packs, heating pads and aspirin to dull the pain. It eventually went away, but every time he has to shovel again — “like every three days” — it flares up again.

Beltramba is hardly alone. North Jersey doctors reported seeing an increased number of patients with shoveling-related pain and injuries this winter.

And the recent wet, heavy snow hasn’t made things easier. Dr. Asit K. Shah, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center’s associate chief of the Department of Orthopedics, said it’s “great for snowball fights, but sucks for the back.”

“Shoveling is a pretty intense exercise,” Shah added. “It’s like working out at a gym.”

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Winter is taking its toll on Ridgewood

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Winter is taking its toll on Ridgewood

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2014, 4:42 PM
BY  DARIUS AMOS AND LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITERS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Following a snowstorm that lasted from Feb. 4 to 5, longtime resident Sal Falciglia saw a car stuck in the snow in downtown Ridgewood on Feb. 6, and couldn’t take it anymore.

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“Our road department in Ridgewood is the worst road department in the world,” he said.

The plowing on Rock Road in Glen Rock was much closer to the curb than plowing he had seen in Ridgewood, he said, and “all my neighbors are sick and tired of it.”

Maureen Wolfson, who has lived in the village for 30 years, called this “the worst year ever” for snow removal. She “almost broke [her] neck” trying to put money in a parking meter at the train station, where the sidewalks were poorly shoveled, she said.

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Before we had ‘snowpocalypse,’ it was just called ‘winter’

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Before we had ‘snowpocalypse,’ it was just called ‘winter’
Wednesday February 5, 2014, 11:45 PM
By VIRGINIA ROHAN
RECORD COLUMNIST

Disruptive snow! Polar vortex! Thundersnow! Extreme weather event!

Whatever happened to the plain old winter snowstorm? If you grew up, say, in the 1960s, there was a simple drill when it snowed: Your parents listened to the radio to see if your school was closed. If it was, you proceeded accordingly — and with so little event that, as an adult, you probably don’t remember any individual snow day of your youth.

Today, television treats every advancing storm as if it’s the “snowmageddon” (or “snowpocalypse” or “snowzilla”). Meteorologists deliver forecasts — referencing American and European models as if it’s a competition — with the kind of gravity news operations once reserved for, say, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

With multiday forecasts, TV weather people start banging the drums days in advance of an approaching storm. Last winter, The Weather Channel even started naming major winter storms — mainly for hashtag purposes.

All this can seem excessive, especially in cases like the storm that hit us Tuesday going into Wednesday, which turned out to be far less severe than predicted with a range of 4.5 inches in Paramus to 7 inches in Ringwood, according to Bob Ziff, spokesman for North Jersey Weather Observers.

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