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National Initiative for Better Health and a More Vibrant Quality of Life Comes to San Francisco

San Francisco, CA (January 3, 2008) — Dr. Amelia Mazgaloff and Dr. Lisa Medel are proud to be facilitators for Straighten Up America in the Bay Area.

A new and exciting health initiative, Straighten Up America is poised to make a major impact on the health and wellness of our society. Straighten Up America and Straighten Up and Move are worldwide health initiatives geared to improve posture, structural development and individuals’ self-esteem. The vision of Straighten Up America is very simple: we envision a day when every American performs a short enjoyable spinal exercise module daily just as we brush our teeth. Straighten Up America also includes healthy lifestyle recommendations aimed at reducing alarming levels of obesity in our children, preventing many chronic diseases and enhancing the health and well being of all Americans.

Chiro-Health, Inc. is a local San Francisco chiropractic clinic. Since 2004, Chiro-Health has helped professionals and athletes achieve total wellness and freedom from pain through chiropractic, massage therapy, physiotherapy, exercise rehabilitation and foot orthotics. By emphasizing the entire complex of joints, muscles and nerves — and their underlying physical, emotional and chemical states — Chiro-Health looks at the whole person to create a partnership plan leading to better health. To learn more visit their website www.chirohealthsf.com.

Chiro-Health, Inc. partners with multidisciplinary seed and Delphi panels, including a wide range of health care professionals, fitness experts and leaders of the World Health Organization and United States Bone and Joint Decade to develop the Straighten Up program. Straighten Up has garnered a number of accolades from health and fitness leaders including Lee Haney, past chairman of the US President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Lee describes the program as “awesome” with “vision and much promise”. In January of 2005 Tommy Thompson, then US Secretary of Health and Human Services, “commended” the individuals who developed “Straighten Up” for their “leadership in the field of spinal health”.

Straighten Up America is proud to be a 50th Anniversary Partner to Get America Moving, an initiative of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports during its fiftieth anniversary year (1956-2006). The United States Bone and Joint Decade also actively partners with Straighten Up America. This prestigious research and educational initiative, created and empowered by proclamation of the President of the United States, has adopted Straighten Up America as its spinal health promotion educational program.

Below we have illustrated the Posture Pod from Straighten Up. These simple invigorating activities make a great ergonomic break or warm-up or cool-down for a longer exercise session. Give them a try for better posture, if you do not have disorders which prohibit movement.

Dr. Amelia Mazgaloff, a doctor of chiropractic in the Financial District of San Francisco, states: “As a chiropractor and a facilitator for Straighten Up America, I am too familiar with children and adults of all ages who are experiencing challenges with posture, spinal and general health. I want to insure that people learn great spinal health habits by regularly performing the Straighten Up exercise module and practicing its healthy lifestyle recommendations.

As part of the Straighten Up America program, Chiro-Health, Inc. is offering free preventative healthcare posture screenings for the entire month of January. We feel that No spine should go unchecked. If you or your organization, business, school, or faith congregation would like more information on how to implement Straighten Up America, please contact Dr. Mazgaloff at Chiro-Health, Inc. 415-546-1461.

Press contact:
Dr. Amelia Mazgaloff
Chiro-Health
(415) 546-1461
info@chirohealthsf.com

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