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Alexandra Barone was in a horrendous car accident back in 2018 and suffered a severe brain injury. She recovered from her TBI, but today still needs assistance from therapies and supplements to keep her equilibrium steady and her brain functioning.
An emotion inflammation specialist, Barone now wants to share the information that she’s learned and still uses with children. With her husband, Anthony, who has been a chiropractor for almost 40 years, Alexandra recently founded a nonprofit Catholic ministry called “Rejoice Children’s Services,” in Dalton, which provides services for children who suffer from physical and mental disabilities.
Rejoice Children’s Services helps children ranging in age from newborn to 12. The services include exercises and techniques to help children with their balance, instruction in proper nutrition, and light chiropractic maneuvers, “gentle adjustments,” according to Anthony Barone.
“Children with autism like pressure,” he said. “So they do actually enjoy getting up to the chiropractic table and getting a massage, so to speak. Body work is how we term it.” The Barones also provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy through a $12,000 on-site hyperbaric chamber unit that Anthony said the couple received as a donation from a manufacturer in Minnesota. “It’s a soft chamber,” Anthony said. “Not the kind that are at the hospitals.”
Alexandra, who said she never had surgery after her accident, was a ballet dancer when she was younger. She said she uses water and oxygen, and exercise to keep her mind fresh.
“I want to give this information to the children and help them relax their minds,” she said
For more information, visit rejoicechildren.org.
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