Family-Centered Chiropractic Care Comes To Floyd by Roni Sutton
Originally from Kansas City, Christina Alba fell in love with Floyd County when looking for places in Southwest Virginia to move with her family. “I love the people here,” says Christina. “Floyd is a great community.” She went on to explain how Floyd not only became home to her family, but also to her practice. While researching educational options in the area, Christina discovered Blue Mountain School. With its progressive, holistic approach to education, she knew it would be a great fit for her son who has increased socio-emotional needs. With the school being a significant consideration, Christina moved to Floyd two years ago with her two youngest children. When winter arrived that year, Christina discovered that her plans to buy an established Chiropractic Care office in Christiansburg would make it difficult for her to retrieve her children from early school dismissals in the event of inclement weather, a frequent event in Floyd. As a single mother and solo practitioner, she didn’t have the luxury of cancelling appointments on short notice. She had to make a business decision that would provide her a better work/life balance; a balance she feels is essential for single parent families. Consequently, she made the decision to open a family-centered chiropractic office in Floyd. On February 1 of 2019, she saw her first patient in a small, basement office below the Montessori school on West Main Street. Just a year later, in April of 2020, she upgraded and moved her office, Manifesting Wellness Family Chiropractic, to its current location at 613 East Main Street, next to Floyd Express. Dr. Christina Alba has an immense passion serving families. While presently trained in the Webster prenatal technique, pediatric adjusting, and cranial adjusting, she continually expands 18 www.Facebook.com/FloydVirginiaMagazine
on her mission for family wellness. She recently enrolled in a course on Post-Partum Care for Chiropractors, and in September will be attending a workshop for pregnancy and birth professionals by Spinning Babies™. For spinal adjusting, Dr. Alba prefers Advanced Biostructural Correction™ (ABC) which is quite different from traditional chiropractic manipulation. ABC provides structural and postural correction which in turn relieves stress and tension on the body. Immediate benefits from one session include better and easier breathing, improved posture, and less muscular and fascial stress. Dr. Alba is one of only two ABC practitioners in the area. Rather than a patient lying face down on a table, ABC patients stand against the wall while the doctor does the manipulation. The adjustment is a lower-velocity manipulation than that of traditional, manual chiropractic techniques. The treatment does not involve any turning or cracking of the neck. This makes a lot of patients much more comfortable getting the treatment. Unlike the lengthy sessions some patients might experience in other chiropractic offices, Dr. Alba routinely needs only twenty to thirty minutes during each visit to perform the needed treatment. New patients, however, receive approximately two hours of her undivided attention. “I make sure I take the time to get to know my patients,” says Dr. Alba. “They are like my family. I take their care very seriously.” So seriously, in fact, that visitors may notice there are no additional staff in her office. Dr. Alba does all the scheduling and all the patient communication, as well as all the billing and follow-up, herself. Her office also has complimentary coffee and tea available, along with a filtered water drinking station. Patients may serve themselves from
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