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.

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 2001 USA 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 thousands of employees in a wide variety of job activities on how to performs their jobs more safely.