When the chi is moving dis-harmoniously, imbalance begins to surface in the form of specific symptoms. To address the underlying cause of a condition...
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.
We are able to image the body in either the upright position using a wall mounted bucky or in the recumbent position via a 4-way float table, usually found in hospitals. This enables us to image extremities and to perform non-weight bearing radio graphs accurately, comfortably and most importantly safely.
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.
Do you live to eat? Or do you eat to live? Did you know that your food choices could be challenging your system, rather than supporting it? Does your diet contain the right nutritional building blocks necessary to support healthy tissues and keep your energy high? Learn how to keep your body healthy and operating efficiently with nutritional guidance from Southwest Nutrition and Wellness.
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.
Performed on a fully clothed person with a light touch. The practitioner monitors the rhythm of the Cranio-sacral system to detect potential restrictions and imbalances. The therapist uses delicate manual techniques to release problem areas and allow energy in the spinal column to flow more freely.
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.
If you are suffering from a herniated disc in your back or neck, you likely have not been given all of the treatment options. Most doctors want to prescribe medications, injections, physical therapy or surgery. They did not tell you about non-surgical spinal decompression.
When conservative care fails to provide a solution for spine pain, then we use pain management techniques like epidural injections and facet blocks to modulate pain. This allows us to move faster into rehabilitation techniques to restore function and work on eliminating the cause of the original condition. Many pain managment physicians use pain manegement as their only tool. We use it as a bridge to rehab as we dont want to just manage your pain, we want to solve it.
South West Health & Fitness is staffed by board certified chiropractors, and certified personal trainers. Upon completion of a thorough functional assessment, the fitness program is then tailored to meet your individual goals
Our Costa Mesa sports chiropractors specialize in sports injuries and use manual manipulation of the spine and extremities as well as rehabilitation and strangth and conditioning techniques to treat our patients. Sports chiropractors have advanced training in areas of sports medicine not covered in the traditional chiropractic curriculum. These areas include but are not limited to concussion management both at the athletic event and in office.
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.
Training programs are essential for optimal performance in sport as well as the prevention of injuries. These programs are custom tailored...
South West Health + Fitness Center offers several options for Yoga. We offer weekend yoga classes with Dorene on Saturday and Sunday mornings as well as private yoga assessments with our resident "Chiroyogi" Dr. Jessie Rickerson.