Have you checked out our “Core Essentials” Resource page? It’s full of Dr. E’s personal recommendations for health products and services to help keep you on the path to wellness—and she personally uses most of them! Now we’ve made purchasing these products even easier with the addition of a Core Wellness Amazon Store. Just select the item you are interested in and you can order right from our website. Try it out and let ...
Continue Reading →Dana obtained her Master of Science with a major in Physical Therapy through Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. She later received her doctorate through Marymount University in 2007. She has always had a special interest in treating spine patients and became a credentialed McKenzie therapist (Cert.MDT) in 2004. She continued to advance her manual skills through various techniques and became a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist (COMT) through Maitland-Australian Physiotherapy Seminars. Dana has also worked part-time as ...
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Beginning in 2015, we will offer Whole30 consultations to personalize and maximize your wellness experience. This popular elimination diet helps people identify and remove all psychologically unhealthy, hormone-unbalancing, gut-disrupting, inflammatory food groups for a 30 day period. By maximizing your body’s ability to heal with all the right foods, Whole30 promotes improved efficiency of metabolism and reduces systemic inflammation. A Whole30 consultation can help people kick off the New Year right by starting fresh with a healthy, customized approach to ...
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We’re excited to announce that preparation is underway for our first retreat this spring!
We’ll be traveling to Nemacolin Woodlands Resort the weekend of March 20-22, 2015. Located in Farmington, PA, Nemacolin is about 2.5 to 3 hours from the DC area and provides guests with the opportunity to experience nature and relax in a peaceful, tranquil setting. Participants can expect a weekend of wellness,nutrition, spa treatments, and activities such as: canopy touring, archery, mini-golf, Pilates, yoga, ...
Continue Reading →Happy Birthday to us…we’re celebrating five years of business in Del Ray! It’s been an exciting journey over the last five years, and we feel so privileged to have served the greater Alexandria area and a wonderfulroster of clients as committed to their health as we are.
To celebrate our five year anniversary, we are excited to announce:
We all know that a healthy diet has its benefits. Eating whole, clean foods rich in vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and lean protein contributes to much more than simply feeling good and weight control. Maintaining a nutrient-dense diet can help us manage and prevent a host of health concerns, including heart disease, auto-immune diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, various cancers, depression, arthritis, and the list goes on.
There are also foods that can negatively impact the way we feel. ...
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Check out Core Wellness’ website soon for our new glossary of physical therapy-related terms, offering the latest information on physical therapy conditions, therapies, exercises and much more. Intended for current and prospective patients of Core Wellness, the aim of this new web resource is to provide snippets of information on various disorders and related therapies (but should not be used as a diagnostic tool), and may serve as a jumping-off point for those looking for more information prior to ...
Continue Reading →Recently on Core Wellness Radio, Dr. E discussed the importance of the putting the right kinds of foods in our bodies and how these foods can act as medicine over time. Not suggesting that food can replace medicine, Dr E. pointed out that, simply, if we have a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables, lean meats/protein and healthy fats, we maximize our body’s ability to restore itself, from the inside out.
To help ensure that we maximize the nutritional ...
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On last week’s installment of Core Wellness Radio, we spoke with Dr. Polis about how to prepare for your spring distance runs, including 5ks, half and full marathon running, plus how to stay motivated throughout.
According to Dr. Polis, while you don’t necessarily need to be an avid runner to participate in a distance run, with the exception of a 5k, some sort of training or conditioning of your body before-hand is important to prevent injury. Long-distance running training programs ...
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May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month! In recognition, our Facebook page will feature a tough exercise-related question each week and those who answer will automatically be entered to win a complimentary hour-long healthy lifestyle consultation* with Core Wellness’s Jackie Callaghan. At the end of the month, we’ll tally up the answers, randomly choose a winner, and announce it via our social media channels. Good luck to all participants!
And we encourage everyone to celebrate National Physical Fitness ...
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