Neuroplasticity is the ability your brain has to re-wire itself. In order for this to take place, you must train the brain and stimulate those new neural pathways.

Why do Foundation Training?

The core muscles are often misunderstood in that most people think of them as being the abdominals. One of the main jobs your core does is stabilize your body to prepare for movement. Foundation training teaches that some of the most important muscles in your core are in fact your glutes and hamstrings. In our world, we call that the posterior chain. Either way, these muscles need to be long and strong to properly stabilize the body.

Preventing injuries in the world of sport is a hot topic, especially in the young athlete. Kids tend to play one sport year round and this leads to over training and prevents...

You now see athletes from around the world sporting the brightly colored tape on national television, from Lance Armstrong, to Venus Williams, and even Kerri Walsh.

MSK (musculoskeletal) ultrasound imaging uses sound waves to produce pictures of muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and joints throughout the body. It is used to help diagnose sprains, strains, tears, trapped nerves, arthritis, and other sports injuries. We are actually able to image your injury while you are moving it to confirm the location and sometimes even the cause of the injury. This information allows us to make precise a precise diagnosis and give you better rehab protocols and speed the healing of injuries.

Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT)® is a powerful muscular assessment tool that analyzes and corrects muscular imbalances. At MAT we focus on the cause of the imblance by testing, correcting, and maintaining muscle contractile efficiency. We believe that flexibility is a derivative of strength, and that muscle tightness is secondary to muscle weakness.

So how does cupping work? Either heat or air is used to create a suction in special cups that are placed on the body. The vacuum that’s created pulls the skin and blood vessels in toward the cup, which is why they can leave marks on the skin. Cupping is thought to pull blood to a certain area, and improve circulation and loosen up muscles and joints.

Dr. Zappala uses the latest information from the world of sports medicine when he performs his assessments on athletes. The information comes in the from of...

Dr. Zappala has been a sports chiropractor and sports medicine specialist for the last 28 years. He holds the highest level of sports medicine training offered in his field.  He is a member of the national concussion registry and sits on the ATC board for the C.I.F. southern section. He preaches injury prevention ...

Golf, Baseball, Softball, Soccer, Volleyball, Tennis, Cycling, Running, and any sport that you want to improve doing or need a competitive edge will see great physical improvement and decreased instances of injury when employing the training designed around your personal movenment analysis.

A team physician has the leadership role in the organization, management and provision of medical care for individual, team and mass participation sporting events. The most important responsibility of the team physician is the medical care of athletes at all ages and all levels of participation.