Meet the Official Team Chiropractors and Recovery Specialists of the Chesapeake Bowl '12

Dr. John Rosa and Dr. Rick Rosa were the official team Chiropractors and Recovery Specialists for the recent 3rd Annual Chesapeake Bowl FootballGame. The game was held immediately after Christmas on Saturday, December 29^th. The Chesapeake Bowl brings together all of the Gateway Seniors, which are the top recruited high school athletes in the Northeast. The regions represented at this year’s Chesapeake Bowl included Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. All student athlete participants are fall 2013, 2014 and 2015 prospects for collegiate league football.

In order to prepare for the game, the area’s leading high school athletes are trained by both collegiate and NFL level players at the Chesapeake Bowl Selection Camp. After camp, only the most selective athletes are invited to play in the bowl.

Peter Rosa, class of 2014 was one of those athletes. Peter who is also the son of Dr. John Rosa is featured here (below) along with his Father and Uncle Dr. Rick Rosa at the Chesapeake Bowl game, this past December. Peter is kicker at St. John’s College High School and is a highly sought out recruit for many of the country’s leading universities.

During the game both Dr. John and Dr. Rick Rosa ensure athletes maintain proper recovery, hydration and health. 

But football is not the only sport where you will find the duo exhibiting sports recovery expertise, they have served as sports recovery specialist for a number of leagues including mixed martial arts, boxing, basketball, football, pro cycling and more. In fact, Dr. Rick Rosa travels the United States and the world to help athletes. Recently Dr. Rick Rosa served as the official cut-man, chiropractor and recovery specialist for the World Heavyweight Championship in Berne, Switzerland. Dr. Rick Rosa is also facilitating sports rehabilitation and recovery for the Pro Cycling team, Champion Systems, mid January 2013.

The doctors lead a 12 clinic chiropractic, physical therapy and sport rehabilitation medical group, which is comprised of 16 licensed Chiropractors with physical therapy privileges, serving the DC/MD/VA metropolitan area called Accessible Beltway Clinics. The Doctors of Chiropractic atAccessible Beltway Clinics are elite in their profession, and have been the exclusive and/or preferred chiropractors for professional and Olympic level athletes and athletic teams, including Team Colavita Cycling, Team Lloyd Irvin Mixed Martial Arts, Team Champion Systems Pro Cycling, the Washington Wizards and more.

To learn more about Accessible Beltway Clinics and RecoveryDoc, please visit:

www.abcclinics.com

www.recoverydoc.net

YouTube 

If you have other questions regarding chiropractic treatments, contact us at 301-972-9191 or sign-up at www.CramerChiropracticrehab.com for a free consultation!

Cramer Chiropractic Rehab maintains an active presence on many popular search and social media websites. Select your favorite website below to stay connected or review us.

Cramer Chiropractic Rehab

12850 Middlebrook Rd #209

Germantown, MD 20874

301-972-9191

www.cramerchiropracticrehab.com

          

What is Osteoarthritis?

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis.

An estimated 27 million Americans live with it according to the Arthritis Foundation. And because it's two major risk factors: aging and obesity, are so prevalent among the baby-boomer generation, the number of people with OA is predicted to exceed 60 million by 2020.  Osteoarthritis causes cartilage and joints to degenerate over time.  Recently, researchers at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center identified a specific protein that appears to play a key role in translating cartilage and joint damage into the pain that Osteoarthritis suffers feel.   

Osteoarthritis can start to affect the joints before symptoms like stiffness and pain become apparent. By that time, joint damage may have already become advanced an pain may be triggered by such things as climbing stairs.  Eventually, pain may even be caused by touch or pressure. and eventually even at rest.  

Research Says

Researchers conducted a 16-week-long study in mice that attempted to simulated the slow, chronic progression of osteoarthritis  in humans. They monitored the nerves that carry signals from the sensory organs to the brain and found that a protein known as monocyte chemoattractant protein or (MCP)-1 (CCL2) and its receptor are central to feeling OA pain.  When researchers elevated the levels of this protein in one group of mice with simulated OA and the mice exhibited signs that they were experiencing pain. Another group of mice with simulated knee degeneration, but without the protein, did not exhibit the pain-avoidance behaviors. 

Now instead of looking at why this process starts, the cartilage beginning to degenerate, these researchers will be looking for a drug so that you cannot feel the pain, but do nothing to help the reason behind the pain.  As I stated before the two biggest factors contributing to OA are obesity and aging. Now we are all getting older, so we can't do anything about aging, but obesity we can.  We all need to eat better,and exercise.  Take supplements, such as glucosamine and chondrotin sulfate, be proactive, even getting adjusted by your Chiropractor can help keep you more mobile.  Don't wait until you have OA to do something about it, but start now to try to minimize it, or better yet, not suffer from it at all.

If you have other questions regarding chiropractic treatments, contact us at 301-972-9191 or sign-up at www.CramerChiropracticrehab.com for a free consultation!

Cramer Chiropractic Rehab maintains an active presence on many popular search and social media websites. Select your favorite website below to stay connected or review us.

Cramer Chiropractic Rehab

12850 Middlebrook Rd #209

Germantown, MD 20874

301-972-9191

www.cramerchiropracticrehab.com