Dr. Cohen 11/2/25

Mindy and Boots speak with Dr. Cohen from Cohen Orthopedics!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's what's my favorite time with them. Why. It just
was fun.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And we preach all the time that people we want
to promote your business, but we don't want to be
informercially so when you get to feel these people and
get to know them, it makes you want to go
visit them. So I think they really you know, they've
been with us for years, They've always been great, but
I think today really took at the next level.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Everybody likes Stalk Cohen because he's easy, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
He means that lovingly. Doctor Cohen, No.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I know, because we want we want our advertisers to
be family, and they are, and we want you to
go to them because you'll feel like a million bucks
because I go I was at Low's earlier and I
felt like I was just a number. I asked a
guy questioning with me. I had a foot growing on
my face. I was like, just slim for locks, dude,
you don't give me an attitude. So that's the thing. I
just want to be treated right. So that's what we preach,
and I think.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
With doctor Cohen of Cohen Orthopedic, people feel so comfortable
with you because not just of being a kind, compassionate
caring doctor. You're a dad, and when you let your
daughters come in here and they see another side of
you instead of just that medical world, they're like, I
can connect with him because I'm a dad.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm just a guy.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
You're just a guy to so many people because of
who you are, doctor Cohen.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I hope you realize how loved you are.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
I mean, I just enjoy what I do, and obviously
being a datis prizing.

Speaker 7 (01:16):
I enjoy the most.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
Sure, so bringing my girls in here is really important
to me just because it you know, I look back
when I was younger and I should go with my
dad and he played Paddable on Sundays, and I remember
those days. So I want them to be able to
look back and be able.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
To I got paddled on Sundays, and he deserved it.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
He got paddled on Sundays, Mondays.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Tuesdays Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I don't know if you saw this, Boots, but I'm
online and I look at a lot of coen Orthopedics
postings and I actually screenshot this and I put it
on my own just to promote that you're going to
be on today. And it talked about how so much
of your outreach happens not just in the medical field,
but by your sour dough bread.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
You see what I'm you know, I'm talking about the picture.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
Well that was from yesterday. So that's a pace of mine.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Who she was in last Saturday, and she was coming
back a week later and she said, I saw your
sour dough online.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
She's like, I'd like a loaf, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Like, sure, I can make that happen.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
I can make one.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
I can make one extra loaf for a week because
I make it for my staff on Saturdays, so I
can I can make one extra be on one.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
It pushes my capabilities.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
So speaking of Boots, look who he brought in studio.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And you know what, And his name's Bo and he's
a veteran and he was a fighter pilot.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So I love this guy already. I don't need to
hear anymore, you know. And he fixed how many knees
for you?

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh well just uh, just the one. Actually he fixed
my kneecap.

Speaker 8 (02:43):
Oh, my kneecap was like way off to the side
and time, oh yeah, whenever I would stand up or
sit down and click back for it.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
So this is this is a picture of his kneecap before.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
We don't need to be in many exactly. I can
look at an next ray knock like Titanic.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
What was your knee bow?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
That was.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Short two short months ago, wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
Well, that's when we did the surgery. But you were
dealing with that for.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
I was doing that for two years before that.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
So how did I get to that point though?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Well, I had a knee replacement, not through doctor Cohen.

Speaker 9 (03:18):
No, no, in twenty twenty three, okay, and the kneecap
just didn't heal right, it's it just went off of
the side and before I realized it, the doctor that
did the surgery. I went back to him and uh,

(03:39):
he goes, well, I don't know, but he said I
could try to fix it, but you know you you
might not like the results.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Wait a minute, hold on, So the doctor that attempted
to fix your knee, Yeah, it didn't obviously work. So
you went back to him. How long in between did
that happen? Like you're talking a year or two?

Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, I'm actually talking well about a year.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
And the doctor if that was you, doctor Cohen, and
you didn't fix somebody and a year later they come
to you and you say, basically you're out of.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
Luck, So I mean not being in the situation.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
What I could say is this, I always try to
recognize a problem and fix the problem. You know, So
this is very no matter what I mean. If if
I can't fix it, I'll find somebody who can. I'll
never say, you know, sorry about your luck.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
You know you got to live with it this way
if there's a fix.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
So if I if I don't have it in my toolbox,
I'll find somebody who does. And that would that's the goal.
I don't care who fixes it, as long as it
gets fixed.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Who who What caused it to come loose like that?

Speaker 6 (04:49):
They didn't put the so so for very basic things,
if you think about the decap or the pateel, it's
like a Pulley system for the quad muscle. It just
elevates the muscle so that it has a mechanical advantage,
so you don't really theoretically you don't need your patella
to walk because but you mustle have to work harder
to do it. In Bo's situation, what we do when

(05:10):
we go into the surgery, we actually cut around the
kneecap to expose the knee. We actually move it to
the side, but we repair that cut in the tendon
tissue to hold it back in place. So somewhere during
his recovery that came loose and then it just could like, well,
it's it's prevented by doing the initial repair. Well, but

(05:33):
if it happens, it should be diagnosed and either repaired again,
you know, recognizing it's not that I don't think anything
was done with the procedure, It was the problem that
that it's it should It's not a surprise that this
can happen because you actually move that patella or the
kneecap out of the way to expose the knee.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Susie Bo's wife is in studio as well. What did
you think when your husband was going through this and
it wasn't working, and you thought, oh my gosh, Because
first of all, you get to the point, will you
finally decide to have me replacement surgery or to have
some type of help with your kneecap, So that's probably
a decision itself. And then when it didn't work, what
kind of pain was your husband in? Oh, he struggled

(06:15):
so much.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
He's been through back surgeries and finally we thought we
had a solution with his knee, and after the surgery
when it didn't work, his his orthopedic surgeon at the time,
just said, like both said, I don't you may not
like the results. What he actually said to us was

(06:37):
you might lose your leg.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So, yeah, thanks for that email.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Could you repeat that? Please not?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
We might lose your leg?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And you how do you walk out of the doctor's
office if someone says that to you, You're like what?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
And this is a fighter pilot who's been through so much.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, you've been drowned, probably virtually right then they stick
you guys underwater and like torture you.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You can handle pain?

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Well, yeah, but that was a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
You still got I couldn't do even what you did
when you were twenty two years old. So you're a
stutlier guy, and I ever was, so no, I.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Wouldn't say that, Oh I would.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm special, No, I know. But what I'm trying to
say is you could really handle pain.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And this is so our question to you is, and
we would never say your doctor's name, who didn't fix
you correctly? But you needed another option? So what made
you turn to doctor Cohen. Actually, you guys did.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Is that true?

Speaker 9 (07:37):
Really?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 10 (07:38):
We were listing to six', ten which we do a,
lot and we thank you especially your, show and we
heard Doctor cohen on, there AND i cannot begin to
tell you how it felt when we got an appointment
with them and we, walked, yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Go from, there, like what was what was so different
about Doctor?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Cohen?

Speaker 10 (08:02):
Oh you know how sometimes you go to your doctor
and you don't think they listen to words you, Say.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's HOW i feel Every sunday WHEN i talk.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
To boots and she deserves, That i'd make her kneecap.

Speaker 7 (08:13):
Loose makes more than, That.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Lucy go.

Speaker 10 (08:15):
Ahead we went in and Doctor cohen took a look
at bow and he, SAYS i can fix, this and
we're both, like somebody can fix?

Speaker 7 (08:25):
It and he was.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Nice oh he was Super he's just been.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Wonderful but did you believe?

Speaker 11 (08:30):
Him?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Bo did you believe him after you had just gone
through this and you already dealt with a doctor who
kind of screwed it?

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Up should you believe?

Speaker 10 (08:36):
Him?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
YEAH i believe.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
That that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
And we we owe that to. You he would do
it right. Anyway but you you helped protect this wonderful.
COUNTRY i can't imagine your stories you can't even share with,
Us but thank you for your service BECAUSE i truly
mean that sort of many because on her flights are
baby and he's going to be sixty five in a
few days and we're taking.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Him.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Ah he gets to what was one of your favorite
stories from being in the, Service.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Probably the first night Of Desert?

Speaker 9 (09:05):
Storm first of, all flying, Fighters i've done a lot
of things AND i probably shouldn't be here.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
Today it should probably be. Dead some of the stupid
things that were.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
You ever in heavy combat with? That CAN i ask that?
Question night?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
One?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, wow that desert storm you're talking.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
About, YEAH i was on the wing of one of
the first kills of the, war air to air THE
f FIFTEEN c model was the aired air machine and
we were up there first, night just about thirty five
forty miles southwest of bag or southeast Of Bag.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Dead. Wow and it was a big MiG you took it.

Speaker 9 (09:38):
Was it was A MIRAGE f one that took off
out of an air base Called Al, jarra and they
were trying to flush because with the package that we
were protecting was.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Bombing.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
Them their first few nights was taking out all the radar,
sites all their, communications all the things that made information
go back and. Forth so that's what our strikers were.
Doing and they got one airplane off the. Ground you
didn't get too, far and YOU i love. It, YEAH

(10:13):
i was on the wing the. GUY i didn't do the,
shooting but the other airplane blew up about two or
three miles off my.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Wing so you were his Wing man's what you're. Saying,
yeah so it was you two f fIF f. Fifteens,
yes and you're you're no matter, what like we, all you,
know top, guns spreger. Guys so if you would have
left his, wing you get in. Trouble so you stayed
with him no matter.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
What, well it's funny what.

Speaker 9 (10:38):
Happened WHENEVER i saw the guy blow up pieces MY
i went slow. Motion you hear that, happening, Right but
because everything was like going so fast and there's radios
where we're going nuts and and, uh BUT i watched,
this AND i watched the guy just float to the,
ground and you, know my my flight lead at the

(11:00):
time he turned he turned away AND i kept going.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Straight SO i ended up twenty miles in back of.
Him we had to rejoin to get together because we
still Had.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
When you train and train for, that do you think
it's more important to be physically fit or mentally, fit
because something like That i'm sure never leaves you.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Well physically fit is very.

Speaker 9 (11:25):
Important and at the, time and when this whole thing,
started it was because of my back and all. That,
yeah BUT i got a pinch nerve in my, back
and that was from doing all the HIGH g maneuvering
that you did in in a.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
FIGHTER i, mean you're upside down and you're going how
MANY i can't imatin you're YOU'RE i, MEAN i want
to call you're a stud and that's. AWESOME i. Couldn't
we couldn't imagine, that, Dog i'd be, LIKE i, mean
the g.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Forces you know when people think about fire, PILE i,
mean that's like being a quarterback on a, football, Right
it's like one of those like you, know pie in the,
Sky like.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
If you can do whatever you want to, do be
like something like. That it's you, know it's.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Crazy So Pete haig's death is really trying to change
the physical fitness aspects of the.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Military do you agree with?

Speaker 10 (12:11):
That?

Speaker 9 (12:11):
Oh, yeah, yeah definitely. Definitely WHEN i was going through
AND i retired in twenty oh, five AND i was
actually retired from The Air guard down here At. RICKENBACKER
i was, Fine casey won thirty five's then with those.
Guys but where are we going with this?

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Fit?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Oh, yeah about if you you agree With pete Hegg
seth changing the physical dynamics that, answer, WELL i figured.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Too sometimes it's nice to be reminded of.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
IT i, mean it's it's not too much to ask
of our military to be in shape because look what
you just went through right.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
Right and back in the, day you know it was that.
WAY i mean we had a run for so many,
minutes or you, know run amound half in so many,
minutes and, yeah push ups and all that kind of.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
Stuff so we have to take a.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Break but we do have a caller on the line
for a question for, you Doctor, Cohen so we'll take
a quick break and we come back more With Susie
bo and Doctor cohen And Boots.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Raw Indian boots on these radio six TEN. Tv are
we on the.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Air we're on the. Air we are in such good
conversations with Doctor cohen.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
And bow And.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Susie i'm Telling susie about my mom who it'll be
her two year anniversary of her. Death and WHEN i
When susie walked in AND i just showed you an
older picture of.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
My, Mom i'm, like, uh you remind me of my.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Mom AND i always look for Little god, things Little god,
signs and it's you, Know i've just kind of been
feeling that time of the year BECAUSE i miss her so.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Much and you walked.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
In i'm, like, oh my, Gosh, boots he reminds me
of my. Mom AND i just showed you that picture of.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
My mouth, style didn't you.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
See i'm always you're.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
HAPPY i love. That we need to make, it put
her on a. Postcard so happy there you.

Speaker 10 (14:02):
Are, yeah then we see a little bit of reseance
complement coming from. You you, KNOW i know how precious
your mother was to you as mine was to, me
AND i can remind you of her in any.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
Way you sure, Did and WHEN i just showed you that,
Picture i'm, like oh my, gosh you see What i'm talking.
About but it's that time of the year that we're
kind of reminded of that and how how precious life.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Is you.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Know we are in church today At Indian lake and
administer did such a good.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Job he's, like, basically we're all, dying, right Doctor, cohen
every direct so every day we're dying and it's just
a matter of time and who's dying quickly or but
how many of you are really? Living and it was
really a great. Sermon AND i look at, you Doctor
cohen and Doctor. Conan you live your. Life you so
much put everybody else before, yourself and that's how you're

(14:49):
supposed to.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Live that's what you're supposed to do in.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Life if you're living In god's, will you are a
living example of.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
That, well that's WHY i get up, early BECAUSE i
take those first three or four hours.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Of the day put do WHAT i want to do
for me so that the rest.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Of the DAY i don't think about. It, right that's
what you do well for? Me for, me it's it's
it's working.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
OUT i get up AND i you, KNOW i WATCH
espn WHILE i lift and WHILE i do. Cardio but
it's something THAT i do And i've been doing it
now for twenty five thirty, Years like every day, right like,
Now i'll get up to thirty two o'clock and whatever
whatever TIME i have to get, Up i'll get up
to do, it AND i try it on the. WEEKENDS
i try to do before my girls get, up BECAUSE
i don't want to take time away from, them, right.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
So, smart but it's but it's BUT.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
I feel LIKE i take that time for, myself even
though it's not.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Anything, really you, know it's not anything.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Of consequence of, value but mentally it's but, then but
THEN i can spend the day AND i don't think
about what what DO i have to do later for?

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Me so when you're doing, surgery how many hours does it?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Take how many times hours are you standing hunched over
cutting someone's old knee out putting a new knee?

Speaker 6 (15:55):
IN i, mean so you, know different procedures take different
different amount of, times you, Know but we start the
day usually around six thirty seven operating and we'll usually
go till you, know four thirty five.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Whole how many needs in the day have you done the?

Speaker 6 (16:07):
MOST i, mean you, know there were times when we
were doing you, know fourteen cases a day and they
very you. Know the nice thing about my my practice
is THAT i just don't do the same. THING i
do a lot of the same, things but a lot
of That but it's a DIFFERENT i do a lot
of hip, surgery a lot of knee, surgery a lot of.

Speaker 7 (16:23):
Shoulders and the nice thing about.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Seeing it all is that you never get concerned about
when you see when something. Happens you, know very few
things happen WHERE i am, like oh my, god what
are we going to do? Here you, know LIKE i,
never Thank, GOD i never have that. FEELING i always
feel Like i've been here. BEFORE i just got to
recognize what's going. On you. Know it's like it's like
fixing a. Car you, know you run into a. Problem you, Know,

(16:48):
Okay i've seen this.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Problem, before done.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
That, yeah how DO i reconcile?

Speaker 6 (16:52):
It you know What i'll have What i'll have on
my back table that's going to get me through.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
This so you knew right away that you were going
to try to Help bo because other peop people.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
Couldn't, WELL i don't get INTO i don't get into
THE i, MEAN i asked the.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Story BUT i see the, problem AND i AND i
recognized the, problem AND i knew And i've seen it,
before SO i KNEW i. COULD i KNEW i could fix,
it you, Know so it wasn't really you know it.
WASN'T i wasn't shocked by. It it, happens you. KNOW
i have patients who had the same. Problem but we fix,
it you, know and these things. Happen you, know sometimes

(17:27):
it's the result of an. Injury you, know somebody had
their surgery and they fall within two weeks of the,
surgery and you, know underneath the skin they split those
stitches and you got to go back in and.

Speaker 7 (17:34):
Fix, it you. Know so it's really recognizing the.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Problem be.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
That but but but that would solve his kneecap.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Problem you bo, is how does it feel? Now did
he fix?

Speaker 10 (17:49):
It?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yeah every once in a, while IF i moved my leg.

Speaker 7 (17:52):
Just in the wrong, Direction i'm, like, oh but uh.

Speaker 8 (17:56):
Yeah other than, that you, know it's it's it's, Fine
It's but it's funny, though because my first follow, up
this was like two weeks, afterwards and he had me
in this leg. BRACE i was supposed to keep the leg,
straight and he came. In he tricked me because he,
said can you bend? IT i, go, yeah a little.
Bit he, Goes you're not supposed to.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Be we got to go back To.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Dana the phone calls because he does have a question for,
you Doctor, cohen don't have about a minute or, Two,
dana what's your question for Doctor?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Cohen, yes Doctor.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
Cohen last. Soccer so my friend's son was playing soccer
and he badly injured his. Shoulder, well after four hours
of surgery At Georgian, hospital him going through therapy and,
healing he was cured to go back. Playing. Well here
about a month ago he was out there, again some

(18:48):
of them rolled him and dislocated the same. Shoulder they
said that if they cannot get it back with, therapy
to go through an even more and they said. Surgery
do you think they did everything they should have did
the first? Time should this have happened?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Again, WELL i, mean you know WHAT i tell my patients,
is you, know your shoulder dislocates When god made. It
so you, know we're really just trying to fix what
what what got tour, that you, know so it's really
it's not going to ever it can be as. Strong
so the risk of dislocation from a traumatic injury can.
Happen to, say it's hard to say that they didn't

(19:25):
do something right or. WRONG i, mean these things, Happened
but WHAT i would say is That i'd be happy
to see, him BECAUSE i don't know of any shoulder
surgery that should take four hours, personally you.

Speaker 11 (19:35):
Know so, yeah that's that's what his mother told. Me
he was in there for for four hours the first,
time and they said the second, time this time they're
going to take different piece pieces of his body to
help mend it.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Well and you, know that's WHAT i would, say is
that that you know, THERE i have seen young athletes
who have had shoulder dislocations treated somewhere. Else we recurrent
dislocations and we fixed them through the scope again the second.
Time SO i can't sit here and say that for.
Sure he would, need you, know and what they're talking

(20:10):
about is moving a bone to help create a better.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
Socket but you, KNOW i think that we.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Can you, know LIKE i, Said i'd be happy to
see him and just give my two, cents, okay Because
i'll Have i'll have, Myself i'll HAVE mindi give you
myself WHEN i call me.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Directly i'm just going to call you all the.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
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Speaker 4 (21:06):
Easy it was supposed to be last week About, halloween
SO i, said, no we're going to keep That.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Halloween Theme halloween. Again we didn't do it last, week, remember,
okay because we weren't.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Here we're only three days. Off it's, good, yeah, exactly
what's three? Days we're All Minion boots on news radio
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