Dr. Cummings


SWINGS HEALING


TOCA doctors provide golfers with a plan, therapy to get back on course


BY TOM MACKIN 24 | AZ GOLF Insider | SPRING 2017


player who also played professional hoops in Italy, he didn’t take up golf until his 40s. Once he did though, he loved it, working his way to a single-digit handicap. Adhering to a golf-focused exercise routine three times a week was helping the Bronx, N.Y., native stave off the inevitable loss of swing speed and distance that comes with aging. But during a workout in January


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of 2013, he hit an impact bag with an iron and immediately realized something had gone wrong. “My right wrist bent at an awkward


angle and I later learned a tendon had torn off my right elbow,” said Berlingeri, who is the membership marketing manager at Desert Forest Golf Club in Carefree. “It hurt like hell. I didn’t know


the severity of the injury, so I kept playing golf and working out. My handicap went up to 12 because of it.”


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eading into his 60s, Scottsdale resident Vito Berlingeri was trying to do the right thing. A former college basketball


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