Chiropractors/personal training question

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Expert: - 11/14/2008


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question!! visit with a chiroprator and discuss as many of the therapeutic modalites as he or she uses.Where would you,the personal trainer,fit into the chiropractor's rehabilitation practice?

Answer
A Doctor of Chiropractic might refer patients to a personal trainer for individualized  proper exercise instruction and personal motivation. State laws and medical-legal considersations dictate the in-office relationship between a D.C. and a personal trainer.

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Gerald Anzalone, D.C.

Expertise

I can answer questions about musculoskeletal-based, evidence-based chiropractic practice.

Experience

13 years of chiropractic practice; currently practicing in an integrative medicine clinic.

Organizations
West Hartford Group, a think-tank that has put forth a model of chiropractic care that is consistent with that of the World Federation of Chiropractic and the Chiropractic Strategic Planning Conference. This model is of the chiropractic physician as the spinal health care expert within the health care system, i.e. society’s non-surgical spine specialist.

Publications
Chiropractic Products magazine

Education/Credentials
Bachelor of Arts, Fordham University, 1991. Doctor of Chiropractic, New York Chiropractic College, 1997.

Awards and Honors
Fordham University: Scripps Howard Journalism Award. New York Chiropractic College: Clinic Award. University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine: University Award for participation as student president of the Integrative Medicine Program.

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