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Cedar Grove Chiropractor Joins Team USA

Buccino heading to Colorado Springs to work with Olympic-level athletes.

Cedar Grove chiropractic sports physician Andrea Buccino is heading to the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs later this month. 

Buccino was selected to join Team USA as a volunteer chiropractor from July 22 through August 6.

This is the second assignment working with Olympic-level athletes for the Nutley resident. She traveled to the University of Oregon in 2012 to treat athletes at the 2012 U.S. Track and Field Trials.

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“It’s an honor to serve this rotation at the OTC and to return to treating the U.S.’s most elite athletes,” Buccino said.

Buccino will work with physical therapists and athletic trainers to treat athletes and keep them healthy.

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Volunteers are required to have a minimum of three years of experience working with sport teams and athletes. Once at the facility, the health care professionals are assigned a team and attend practices.  

Buccino graduated from the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic magna cum laude in 2007 and opened her private practice at 6 Pompton Ave., in Cedar Grove in June 2011. 

She has worked with the New Jersey Lions semiprofessional football team, Princeton University’s tae kwon do team and local CrossFit athletes. 

She is also an adjunct professor of anatomy and physiology at William Paterson University in Wayne.

 


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