Chamber, Town Supervisor Cut Ribbon on Nesconset Physical Therapy Center

Members of the Smithtown and Nesconset chamber’s of commerce and Town of Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday to unveil True Sport Care, a Nesconset physical rehabilitation center.

The facility is co-founded by husband-and-wife doctors Marc and Hope Taczanowski. Marc led a group consisting of chamber members, the town supervisor, and both past and prospective clients, through a tour of the facility and showed many of the treatments and techniques that True Sport Care offers.

“Our mission is to return athletes to play faster than any other facility,” he said. “Athlete’s with injuries come in, we work on them, get them back on the field injury free and feeling good and rehabilitate them more functionally too.”

Some of the photos of testimonials hanging on the wall include former New York Mets slugger Darryl Strawberry and Half Hollow Hills alum and NBA prospect Tobias Harris.

Scott Posner, a chamber of commerce member, is one of the many patients who have been treated by the doctors at True Sport Care.

“I was involved in a car accident and had extreme herniation of two disks,” Posner said. “I was recommended for surgery and the doctor was adamant that not having surgery would be risky. He was afraid that if I fell down I might not even get up. I was very nervous about the prospect of surgery.

“I was training for a marathon so I visited Marc, who I had a lot of success with - he helped me with Plantar Fasciitis which I had for six years and cured and put me on a maintenance program and I’ve never had to come back for that. Typical of Marc, he said ‘let’s give it four treatments and if we don’t see a difference then you’ll go for the surgery.’ After just a couple of treatments there was a significant increase in muscle strength and after the fourth treatment it was gone all together.”

The owner said many patients who come in to True Sport Care are able to get a nearly instant diagnosis of their injuries.

“We can reproduce any sport here and we have instant gratification,” Marc said. “If a kids a pitcher and it hurts when he pitches I don’t have to tell him to go pitch in a game and come back and give us feedback. We have him pitch right away and he gives us feedback instantly so we know if we made a change.”

This is done through a precess called Selective Functional Movement Analysis, which uses a high-tech camera and computer software to analyze the movements of a pitchers motion or a golfer’s swing and figure out exactly what is wrong.

“Athlete’s with injuries come in, we work on them, get then back on the field injury free and feeling good and rehabilitate them more functionally too,” Marc said. “That’s the thing – a lot of places have leg extensions, leg curls, treadmills, that type of thing, but this is more of a functional rehabilitation clinic.”