Old Westbury resident Sherrie Glasser said the opening of her new physical therapy office, Metro Physical & Aquatic Therapy, is part of her lifelong mission to help people.
“I was always into helping people,” Glasser said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday celebrating the Great Neck office’s opening. “I always grew up in that world.”
Glasser, a physical therapist, had spent more than 30 years at an East Shore Road office in Manhasset before moving to her new office at 600 Northern Boulevard in Great Neck two months ago.
“We have a lot more space here,” Glasser said. “There’s such a positive feeling here.”
Glasser, and her team of trained physical therapists treat people with physical injuries at the facility with the help of exercise equipment that includes treadmills and weight lifting machines.
Similar services are offered by Glasser at offices she operates in Roslyn and Garden City.
At the Roslyn office, patients can exercise and receive physical therapy treatments while their affected area is underwater in a pool.
“There’s no compression underwater and so it’s a lot easier to exercise,” she said.
Glasser obtained a special degree in orthopedics and physical therapy from New York University in 1982 and opened her first office in Westbury on Old Country Road the following year.
A native of East Meadow, Glasser said she knew she wanted to open her first office in Long Island.
“I knew a lot of the doctors around here,” she said.
Glasser said hundreds of patients from across Long Island started to visit her at her office, including a few problem patients.
“I was dealing with the most difficult patients,” she said.
Glasser now has the help of her oldest son, Michael, to assist her at all three Long Island locations.
Michael Glasser Mayrsohn said he has always been a fan of working out and helping other people stay healthy, but never thought he would be working his mother in physical therapy.
“I started off working at UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland),” Mayrsohn said.
A few months after joining the bank, Mayrsohn said he became bored with the business world.
“I hated the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. work day and sitting at a desk,” he said.
He said he enjoys his work at Metro Physical & Aquatic Therapy despite the trip to the Long Island offices from his home in Manhattan.
