The clinic that treats the cause.

Ajay graduated from the State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 1996, and he has been treating Old Bridge ever since. Two years later he and his wife Minal opened their own doors on Woodward Drive with three words on the wall: compassion, excellence, integrity. Those words are still the hiring standard.

His work sits where the hard cases go. Joint replacements, spinal surgery, fractures, the recoveries where somebody has already been told to expect less. He is a specialty-trained vestibular therapist, so the patients nobody else could steady tend to end up in front of him. He also teaches: as a certified clinical instructor, he trains the next round of doctors of physical therapy on this floor.

Minal built the other half of the practice, and she is the reason women in this town have somewhere to go for pelvic pain, incontinence and pregnancy recovery instead of being told it is just part of it. Between them they have spent thirty years being the clinic that local doctors send their own families to. That referral is the one they are proudest of. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

“Every evaluation starts the same way: tell me your story.”