Santa Monica, CA – As the exclusive chiropractor for Electronic Arts Los Angeles since 2005, Dr. Lynn Kerew D.C. sees employees of the corporate gaming giant with back to back appointments every week. These programmers, testers, developers and executives all spend countless hours in front of monitors creating some of the most popular games on the planet including the Madden NFL and Tiger Woods video game franchises. With her long standing chiropractic practice in Santa Monica and her Masters Degree in Public Health, Dr. Kerew was the obvious and ideal choice for EA’s busy corporate environment.

According to the American Chiropractic Association, 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in their lives. Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work and half of all working Americans admit to having back pain each year. Most cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic in nature and not caused by serious conditions. According to a 2006 survey over 40 million Americans work year in and year out in cubicles.

With the economy in its current state and interest in preventive care getting a big push from the Obama Administration’s health care reform, more and more people are concerned about cutting down on healthcare costs. Dr. Kerew advises engaging in a few simple activities to keep people from missing work due to a history of bad ergonomics at the workplace. This includes how we sit, how we type, how we exercise and stretch those parts of our bodies under the most duress at work: our eyes, wrists, shoulders, feet, neck and back. This focus on preventive medicine is essential to increasing productivity while greatly reducing health care costs that can accrue from prescription pain medications or even surgery.

Dr. Lynn utilizes the Insight Subluxation Station to provide State-Of -The-Art Surface Thermography and Surface EMG visual back scans for the employees quarterly along with lunchtime talks on health and fitness. This provides objective and visual information to the employees about the cause of any postural imbalance, pain or stiffness they may be experiencing. She works side by side with EA’s fitness center director and personal trainers. This provides the employee with comprehensive fitness and chiropractic care to meet the challenging needs of long hours at the computer to hammer out the tough deadlines and stress each employee faces with being in a fast paced competitive company like EA.

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