Rosa Family Chiropractic Alexandria for More Than Just Back Pain?

Rosa Family Chiropractic Care Aids in Maintaining the Wellness of Patients in Alexandria

When a new patient walks into our Alexandria office at Rosa Family Chiropractic, they are often seeking out care for a specific health problem such as neck or low back pain. But our Alexandria Chiropractors treat more than an acute injury or pain. Our chiropractic care in Alexandria is useful in preventing injury and more importantly, maintaining wellness. Chiropractic wellness at Rosa Family Chiropractic Alexandria, consists of regular, periodic adjustments and treatments in order to help prevent the onset of many common disorders and ailments.

Rosa Family Chiropractic Care Promotes a Healthy Nervous System for Patients in Alexandria

The wellness principle and chiropractic in general, is based on the fact that our entire body is controlled by our brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. Our nervous system controls the health of everything from our smallest blood cells to organs like our heart, lungs, and intestines. So it makes sense that if our nervous system is not healthy, our bodies are not healthy. Joint fixations, in our spine or extremities, cause the communication between the nervous system and the rest of our body to not function properly.

Rosa Family Chiropractic Adjustments Help Patients in Alexandria Maintain Proper Health

When this communication is affected, it can cause the onset of many common health issues. Osteoarthritis, headaches, and sinus congestion are just some of the many disorders that can take place. Rosa Family Chiropractic adjustments remove the joint fixations and allow the bodies of patients in Alexandria to maintain proper health. Also, for those Alexandria patients who have received previous care for an acute injury or illness, regular wellness adjustments at Rosa Family Chiropractic of Alexandria helps to maintain the level of health and recovery achieved from your previous treatments. Rosa Family Chiropractic treats more than just pain. Rosa Family Chiropractic helps patients in the Alexandria community live a healthy, well-balanced life!

Meet the Giants Chiropractor

- Pat Battle

NBCNewYork.com
updated 1/26/2012 11:47:52 AM ET

The road to the Super Bowl is fraught with neck spasms, aching legs and sore hamstrings. But when the Giants head west to Indianapolis, Dr. Rob DeStefano will be there to smooth out those pulled muscles and stiff necks.

A member of the team’s elite medical staff for more than a decade, the Hackensack-based chiropractor is making his second trip to the Super Bowl with Big Blue. He was there when the 2007-2008 team brought home the world title, and says this team is cut from the same fabric.
“This group rivals them,” he told NBC New York. “They’re all friends, they have dinner together, there’s a lot of interaction off the field, which I think is why they mesh so well. And the coach brings it all together. He’s very humble.”
DeStefano started treating individual players more than 20 years ago, but in 2002, when former Giants Amani Toomer and Tiki Barber became regular patients, he was introduced to the team’s head trainer, Ronnie Barnes.
Soon after, he was invited to work with the entire team.

“I’m just a piece of the puzzle,” he says. “The medical staff at the Giants is the best in the world, top-notch. We work together as a team on the medical side. All our egos are put aside. It's about getting the player back on the field, however we can do that.”
Often, the doctors have less than two minutes to assess an injury, treat it and get the player back in the game.
“There’s a peril and a potential injury for each player," says DeStefano. "If you’re a defensive back, it’s upper body because you’re hitting hard with your shoulders and neck. If you’re a lineman, a lot of it can be lower extremities because you’re pushing and the legs are prone to injury and hamstring issues.

"I have a very specific requirement that I fulfill," he says. "They come get me if someone has a neck or hamstring or lower back or shoulder injury.”

They don’t have to go far to find him. He paces the sidelines between two posts so that the athletes can always spot him.
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Sometimes he can treat them on t

he bench, but he also has a table on the sidelines at all times. The pregame is actually his busiest time – loosening up the players, getting them ready and making sure their muscles are functioning as they should be.

”The challenge is because they’re such elite athletes, we have to make sure they’re working efficiently," says DeStefano. "And a lot of the treatments are not necessarily for major injuries. It’s more fine-tuning a machine to make sure it works well.”
DeStefano credits his revolutionary approach to muscle repair to keeping Big Blue fit for the field.

The premise of the treatment, detailed in his New York Times-bestselling book “Muscle Medicine,” is focusing on “what’s wrong with the muscle pulling on the bone, and when we can restore the muscle back to full health, then the bone moves properly and the joints work effectively.”

He calls it the “pin and stretch” technique: “if you shorten the muscle, pin the muscle, then lengthen the muscle, you can stretch the muscle,” he says.

DeStefano played football himself and competes in decathlons as well. He’s worked with athletes most of his career, including Olympic bobsled and women’s hockey teams. But he downplays the thrill of adding a second Super Bowl ring to his trophy room.

“It’s amazing to be back and I’m excited to see what this one will bring, but if you allow yourself to get caught up in the hype, you can miss your purpose and what you’re trying to accomplish," he says. "I’m just doing my part for the team, to go out there and win the game. I think they’re feeling pretty confident about that, but I don’t want to jinx it and talk about it beforehand. I’ll just say we’ll go out and do our best.”

Keep your back happy all through the New Year

We hope your year is off to a great start, and that you’re feeling good. One thing you should do to maintain that feeling throughout the year is resolve to go for regular chiropractic tune-ups in 2012.

The guiding principle of chiropractic is that a properly functioning body is capable of healing many of its own maladies. Since the spinal cord carries signals back and forth between the brain and the rest of the body, keeping the vertebrae properly aligned is imperative to keeping those signals flowing. Misaligned vertebrae can impact nerves and cause ailments from headaches to back pain and more.

So if you’re starting the year with some sort of ailment, visit a chiropractor to see if treatment helps. And if you’re feeling good, a tune-up can help keep you that way. Your chiropractor can also chart a course for you for the New Year in the areas of diet and exercise. And, of course, this is also the time to resolve to make an appointment to see your physician, dentist and any other health-care professional you need to see.

Remember, a chiropractor will never use drugs or surgery as part of treatment. And he or she will not hesitate to refer you to another health-care professional if it’s indicated. Ask your chiropractor for suggestions about maintaining a healthy lifestyle in 2012.

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