Janice
Alden, D.C., C.C.S.P. is the owner of Alden Chiropractic, Inc.
She co-founded The Working Body in June
of 2000 as a way to provide the best available integrated health,
fitness, and physical rehabilitation care in the bay area. She
is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, Applied Kinesiologist,
and Graston Technique and Craniosacral Practitioner. She has been
in private practice since 1985. Her love of dance, her fascination
with anatomy and movement, and her sincere interest and talent
in helping others through problem-solving is what brought her to
chiropractic and continues to motivate her today.
Dr. Alden uses a team approach with the patient in providing care. Patient education is essential in solving problems and getting people better. The more you know what caused the injury and how to correct or strengthen the area, the faster the healing rate tends to be. She sees her role as an investigator of problems, a provider of care, and as an educator. Your role is taking responsibility in your own health care by following recommendations and making necessary changes to encourage maximum healing rates or minimizing further injury. When she finds your needs are best served by other practitioners, appropriate referrals are made. A team approach is also taken with other practitioners if a referral is appropriate.
Over the course of her career Dr. Alden has acquired extensive experience and education in sports chiropractic, ergonomics and injury prevention, exercise rehabilitation, biomechanical assessment, and worker’s compensation issues. She works with the UC-Berkeley Women’s Tennis Team and with various individual athletes who are referred to her from the Cal athletic department. She has treated professional athletes at the 2000 US Olympic Trials, the 2001USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, and the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, Portugal. In the past she served as a state appointed Qualified Medical Evaluator for the worker’s compensation Industrial Medical Council. As an Injury Prevention Specialist for over ten years, both independently and with Future Industrial Technologies, she has trained hundreds of employees in a wide variety of job activities on how to performs their jobs more safely.
Jörg Chabowski, ACSM, is originally from
Germany, where he earned his Nursing degree in 1984 from the Wilhelms
University in Muenster. He holds certifications
in the Pilates Method from the Physical Mind Institute; Health
and Fitness Health Instruction by the American College of Sports
Medicine; Active Isolated Stretching Technique from M.P.I. New
York; Spinning Instruction from Mad Dog; and VO2 Max Testing from
Saul Blau, M.S. & Herman Falsetti, M.D.
Jörg possesses the unique ability to integrate all aspects of these various training modalities to optimize the results of his clients and students. Jörg's professional experience extends into many areas; in addition to his work as a Pilates instructor and personal trainer, he danced professionally and taught with various companies in Europe and the United States. He worked in Intensive Care nursing in Germany and Switzerland, and he served as A.I. Stretching Technician for the Olympic Trials 2000 and as strength and conditioning coach for Clif Bar Inc.
Jörg is the founder of Pro-Function, a company specializing in Pilates and strength and conditioning coaching. He is co-founder of The Working Body and Integrated Teacher Training, a Pilates certification and continuing-education program.
Don
Lawson, CSCS is a native of the Bay Area. His athletic
achievements include National and International competition in Team
Handball and as a decathlete in Track and Field. He has been working
in the fitness industry since 1988 as a personal trainer and Fitness
Director. He began his career at Cal State University Hayward where
he received a Bachelor's Degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology
and Athletic Training. He has recently completed over 200 hours
of training in Applied Kinesiology concepts.
