Sports Medicine and High-Level Fitness

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"Practice does not make perfect it makes permanent"
-Aristotle

Fitness is the key to prevention and rehabilitation as well as achieving your peak fitness goals. Dr. Liebenson, our founder, has helped numerous elite athletes, including:

Sam Cassell

Jayson Werth

Mike Dunleavy, Jr

Scott Walchek

Basketball

NBA All Star and Los Angeles Laker - Kobe Bryant,
Team Chiropractor for the Los Angeles Clippers - including Shaun Livingstone, Cuttino Mobley, Zach Randolf, Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, etc. www.nba.com/clippers/
Indiana Pacers - Mike Dunleavy, Jr.
Former Utah Jazz and N.B.A. veteran - Howard Eisley
Boston Celtics - Sam Cassell
Golden State Warriors - Corey Maggette
Memphis Grizzlies - Quentin Ross
Philadelphia 76ers - Elton Brand

Baseball

Major League Baseball Player, World Series MVP - Troy Glaus
Major League Baseball Player, Jayson Werth - Philadephia Phillies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Werth
Minor League Baseball Player, Steven Moss - Double AA Milwaukee Brewers
Consultant, Arizona Diamondbacks
Major League Baseball Player - Eric Byrnes - Arizona Diamondbacks
Major League Baseball Player - Chad Tracy - Arizona Diamondbacks

Golf

LPGA multiple time U.S. Open champion - Hollis Stacey

Motocross

Motocross world champion - Nathan Ramsey - See the slideshow
Josh Hansen - Visit the Site

Skiing

Olympic Gold Medalist - Julia Mancuso

Snowmobiling

Snowmobiling champion - Shaun Crapo www.slednews.com/cip/index.cfm/main,81,en,1041,0,0,0,1

Cycling

Olympian, a Pan Am Games gold medalist and a Tour de France veteran - Christian van de Velde, Member of the U.S. Postal Service championship Tour de France team - Antonio Cruz

Snowboarding

X-Games and VANS Triple Crown snowboarding champion - Tara Dakidas www.taradakides.com/

Soccer

Boca Juniors Argentina Soccer Team - Marc Salomon

Triathlete

Iron Man Triathlete - Donna Phelan
Iron Man Triathelete Champion - Scott Walchek

In the modern, functional, sports medicine approach conditioning is viewed alongside injury prevention. The two really go hand and hand. For instance, the NFL recently incorporated European research on prevention of ankle and knee injuries via balance training.

Traditional cardiovascular, weight and flexibility training do not constitute an adequate foundation for fitness. The components of high-level fitness include agility, balance, coordination, endurance, flexibility, strength, power, and speed . These all need to be considered as building blocks for enhanced sport-specific performance or injury prevention.

Principles from Tai Chi, Yoga, and Pilates are incorporated into L.A. Sports and Spine's unique, cutting edge, functional-core workouts. Our goal is to improve the quality of your workout. Increasing your resistance or repetitions without assurance of underlying balance and "core" stability will not achieve the goal of enhanced performance or injury prevention. Once you have recovered from your injury or pain our preventive emphasis on supervised functional training workouts can give you the fitness edge you are looking for.

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LA Sports and Spine (Get Directions)
10474 Santa Monica Blvd., #304, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel: (310) 470-2909 Fax: (310) 470-3286