Edward Chu, DC, FRCms

Active Release Provider Sacramento

Dr. Edward Chu is originally from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area where he participated in many unlike types of sports. From this aspect in his life is where he developed his passion for the way the homo trunk would work and move. His first feel with a chiropractor occurred during these sporting moments. He establish through chiropractic and sports rehabilitation he was able to get back onto the field faster and injury gratuitous. From that signal on, Dr. Chu always knew that he wanted to be involved in the healthcare profession and give back to the sporting community merely like the doctors who treated him. While attention the Academy of Maryland, he e'er excelled and favored classes that dealt with life and its function. During his undergraduate courses, he attained internships at the National Plant of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD and the Washington National Children'due south Hospital so that he could continue to learn almost the aspects of healthcare. Due to his love for patient care and he decided to continue his pursuit for his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree at the Palmer Chiropractic College Westward, where he graduated in 2004. As a practitioner, he best describes himself as a movement specialist who is continuously working/learning to notice the best solution for movement disorders of his patients, past addressing other movement patterns that may have been ignored.

Distinctions & Certifications

  • Board Certified – National Lath of Chiropractic Examiners
  • Physiotherapy Board Certified – National Board of Chiropractic Examiners
  • American Chiropractic Board of Rehabiliation – Level 3
  • Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner (CCEP) – Chiropractic Quango on Extremity Adjusting (board eligible)
  • Full BODY Certified: Spine, Lower Extremity, Upper Extremity (Art) – Agile Release Techniques®
  • Long Tract Nerve Entrapment Certified – Active Release Techniques®
  • Master'south Course Certified – Agile Release Techniques®
  • Total Certified Practitioner of Fascial Manipulation (FM)
  • Selective Functional Move Assessment Certified (SFMA – Level 1) – Functional Move Systems
  • Level 2 Certified Graston Technique – Graston Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Technique®
  • Certified FAKTR Technique Practitioner – Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab®
  • Fascial Distortion Model (FDM): Modules 1-three – American Fascial Distortion Model Association
  • Certified Functional Range Conditioniong Mobility Specialist [FRCms]: Functional Anatomy
  • Certified Functional Range Release Provider [FR] – Upper Extremity: Functional Beefcake Systems
  • Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization [DNS] Practice, Clinical A and B: Prague School of Rehabilitation (2021)
  • Certified ChiRunning® / ChiWalking® Teacher
  • CPR – Basic Life Support Certified – American Heart Association

Dr. Chu supporting and finishing local twenty miler, Clarksburg Country Run.

Sports & Interests

Dr. Chu has e'er tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle and through practice and diet. He has constitute that an active lifestyle has proved to be the secret/cause to proficient wellness. He maintains his health through Triathlons, Weightlifting, CrossFit, Mixed Martial Arts and Rowing. He is empathetic to all the difficult work and dedication that athletes place into their training because he too has gone through the triumphs and failures of training program, competitions and races. To date, he has completed over a dozen half marathons, inspired and suckered into multiple triathlons by Dr. Lau (Dart, Olympic and seventy.3 distances), completed 4 full marathons and continues to piece of work with local coaches to be the best of his own ability at all that he participates in.

Community Piece of work / Sports Medicine Experience

  • Internship at the NIH and Washington National Children's Hospital (1997-1999)
  • Provided complimentary care to:
  • CityTeam, San Jose, CA – 2003
  • The Salvation Regular army Rehab Center, San Jose, CA – 2003
  • Body of water Otter Mount Bike Classic – Monterey, CA – 2004
  • Hoop it Upward Basketball Tournament, San Jose, CA – 2002, 2003
  • Cupertino Lawn tennis Tournament for United States Tennis Association (UsaT.A.), Cupertino, CA-2005
  • San Jose Trunk Building Competition, San Jose, CA-2005
  • Jubilee Christian Golf Tournament at Silver Creek, San Jose, CA-2005
  • Fleet Feet Shamrock'n One-half Marathon & 5K – Sacramento, CA – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Nutrition Fuels Fitness 5-A-Day 5K/10K, Elk Grove, CA – 2006, 2007
  • Zoo Zoom 5K/10K – Sacramento, CA 2006
  • Off-white Oaks Fiesta Lord's day Run 5 mi. Run / Walk – Sacramento, CA 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Buffalo Stampede ten Miler – Sacramento, CA – 2007
  • My Sister'due south House 5K Run/Walk – Sacramento, CA – 2006, 2007
  • Corelogic Cowtown Marathon, Half Marathon and 5K – Sacramento, CA – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016
  • Paul Reese Memorial Clarksburg Country Run xxx km, Half-marathon and 5k – Clarksburg, CA – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Onsite Doctor – Fleet Feet Sports and Capitol Road Race Direction – Current (providing pre and post race care to our local athletes at both the larger and smaller racing venues hither in Sacramento county)