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Costa Mesa Chiropractic Wellness Center

Monument sign Welcome to the Website of Costa Mesa's own South West Health Professional Center. Our center is staffed by chiropractors, physical therapists, an acupuncturist, massage therapists, a clinical nutritionist, a hypnotherapist and a team of personal trainers. We are a multi-disciplinary wellness center offering chiropractic care, physical therapy, acupuncture, clinical nutrition, professional therapeutic massage therapy, spinal decompression to treat disc problems, sports specific training and personal training. We take an integrated approach to health care and strive to get to the root cause of the problem, whether it be hormonal, structural, chemical or environmental. We hope that you find the information we present here to be useful for you and your family. Please be sure to check back often, as we update this site with the latest information on health, nutrition, and fitness frequently. Check out Dr. Z's Blog for up to the moment information that can improve your overall wellness.

At South West Health Chiropractic Center, our reputation for quality services is without blemish. While our patients come to us from LA county to San Diego county, we proudly serve Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Corona Del Mar, Newport Coast, Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, Irvine, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach. We are conveniently located close to John Wayne airport to allow patients to fly in conveniently from all over the west coast.

Our fountain team of chiropractors and physical therapists, Dr. Joseph Zappala,, Dr. Jessie Painter, and Dr. Pamela Galambos utilize state of the art techniques and technology to help you achieve your health and wellness goals. Our mission is to provide the best chiropractic care in Orange County and Southern California. Our practice is 100% word of mouth and Dr. Zappala has been serving the chiropractic community in Costa Mesa for over 25 years. We strive to provide each patient with the most up to date information, therapeutic techniques and individualized care in order to best enhance their overall wellness experience. We accomplish this by accurately diagnosing patients to get to the root cause of the problem. A functional evaluation helps us achieve that, leading to a customized treatment plans that will eliminate pain, restore function, and improve wellness in a timely manner.

Tennis Fitness Training

alt Tennis and training are two words that most people do not associate together. Tennis is a game where a tennis ball is hit back and forth over a net, how hard can it be? If you watch tennis on television, you realize how athletic these players are these days. It appears that your arms are doing all the work, but in reality it is the lower body and the core that are the primary power sources. Tennis athletes often present in our office with shoulder pain and elbow pain.

Shoulder pain can often be traced back to poor mechanics and lack of involvement in the core. If a baseball pitcher were to stand on the mound and throw the baseball towards home plate without winding up, the ball would not have much velocity. The wind up allows the pitcher to engage the core through leveraging the ground thereby whipping his arm and releasing the baseball.

Intelliskin

South West Health has partnered with Intelliskin, a local Newport Beach based company to help improve the posture of our patients and our athletes. The shirt is designed to simulate a kinesio tape procedure that we do in the office for postural correction. The shoulders are pulled back and scapulae retracted in such a way that the postural stabilizers are activated. The Intelliskin shirt allows our patients and athletes to essentially tape themselves by wearing the shirt. The shirt helps keep the shoulders in the ideal position for throwing athletes like baseball players,quarterbacks, and water polo players.

Costa Mesa Chiropractic Virtual tour

Chiropractic is one of the services highlighted in·this virtual tour of·Costa Mesa's own South West·Health Professional Center·featuring ·Dr. Zappala. The services featured on the tour are·chiropractic care, massage therapy, clinical nutrition,acupuncture, spinal decompression, and digital x-ray.The video highlights all of the services·available at·the Costa Mesa chiropractic wellness center.

Rocktape Performance enhancing tape

alt South West health uses a high performance tape when we tape our athletes. It is called Rocktape, a company based in northern California. The tape is designed to optimize and improve motion. Most tape is designed to restrict motion, not Rocktape. The weave pattern is tighter on Rocktape as compared to standard Kinesio Tape. In addition, the adhesive that is utilized is stronger so the tape stays on better during competition. Rocktape even makes a version that is waterproof that works with water sports like surfing, swimming and water polo.

Core stability and cycling

Cyclists’ core stability is usually insufficient to handle long rides.

Core stability means possessing the strength in the muscles that control the movement of the pelvis. This becomes vitally important when an athlete is requiring their body to perform at a high level.

The core stability muscles not only have to tolerate prolonged flexion of the spine but they also have to provide a stable platform to absorb the massive forces generated by the legs. Each time the legs push down onto the pedals, a force is also directed up into the trunk. When a cyclist becomes tired, they have more uncontrolled movements occurring at their trunk (e.g.,increases in lumbar flexion, rotation or side flexion) as they push down with their legs. This is because the trunk is not strong enough to absorb the forces from the legs and maintain a neutral spine, which causes fatigue and back pain. With good core stability, cyclists are better able to control these movements, absorbing the huge forces from their legs more effectively and therefore, cycle faster!