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Hands-on treatment of how the body is built, how it moves, and how the nervous system organizes both — so that rehabilitation, training and competition rest on sound structure.
Dr. JC Zegarra, DC, CCSP · Tampa · California · Puerto Rico · Dominican Republic
Built for Performance.
Designed for Life.
Lasting performance is built in order. Structure is reorganized on the table, retrained on the floor, and tested on the field — by the people best placed to do each, working from one plan.
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Performance Care
The table. Assessment and hands-on treatment of joints, soft tissue and the sensory input the nervous system depends on.
JC Zegarra, DC, CCSP · SportsLab Florida
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Performance Rehabilitation
The floor. Corrective exercise, ELDOA™ and progressive loading that teach the body to hold what treatment restored.
Ben Velazquez · ELDOA™ · Theo Aasen
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Human Performance
The field. Strength, speed and sport preparation, built on a body that can tolerate the load.
Your coaches & our performance partners
Approach
An ankle sprain from three seasons ago changes how a hip loads. A shoulder that never settled after a collision changes how the spine rotates. The body adapts to every injury, and those adaptations stay long after the pain is gone. So the assessment follows the chain until the pattern makes sense.
Injury history
Every sprain, surgery and concussion — including the ones you stopped mentioning.
Joint mechanics
How each joint moves, segment by segment, and where motion has gone missing.
Soft tissue & fascia
Restriction, density, glide and the continuity of tissue from one region to the next.
Proprioception
The quality of information the body sends the brain about where it is and how it is loaded.
Compensation
The workarounds the body has adopted, and what they cost elsewhere in the chain.
Sport demands
What your sport, position and training load actually ask of your body.
Lifestyle & recovery
Sleep, stress, nutrition and recovery habits that shape how tissue adapts.
Who we work with
Professional, collegiate and developing athletes. Care that fits around your coaches, athletic trainers and schedule — in season, in the off-season, and on the way back from injury.
Dr. JC has worked with athletes from the NFL, NHL, MLB, MiLB, UFC, Supercross and Motocross, as well as professional golfers.
Care for athletesPeople who train, compete, or intend to keep moving well for decades. The runner whose calf tightens at mile eight. The lifter whose shoulder never settles. The executive whose back has started making decisions for them.
Care for active adultsDr. JC Zegarra, DC, CCSP
A Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician who treats in English and in Spanish — in Tampa, and on the road where his athletes train.
Keith Pyne, DC — Mentor
The foundation of how Dr. JC treats and reasons: compensation patterns across the kinetic chain, and treatment as precise input to the nervous system.
Guy Voyer, DO — Mentor
French osteopath and educator, creator of ELDOA™ and SomaTherapy — source of the specific fascial and osteopathic techniques in Dr. JC's hands-on work.
Ben Velazquez — Mentor & collaborator
Learned alongside Dr. Pyne for years; the table-and-floor partnership, rebuilt in Tampa.
Durham, NC 2009 → Dominican Republic 2012 → Southern California 2014 → Tampa 2026
Background & lineagePrinciples
Structure dictates function.
How a joint is shaped, positioned and supported governs what it can do. Load poor structure and you train the compensation. Restore it first, create space, then hand it on to be loaded.
Sport is sport. Sport is not health.
A principle shared across our lineage. Most sports are one-sided: you swing, throw and shoot from the same side, hold the same demanding positions, and repeat them thousands of times a season. The body adapts with imbalances and compensations — and the better the athlete, the better the cheater, so those adaptations are hard to see until they show up later. Our job is to find them early and keep the athlete healthy enough to meet the demands of the sport — and still well when the season ends.
The long game.
Quick relief is easy to sell. Lasting change takes accurate assessment, precise treatment and patience — and a team that sees the work through.
The team
Performance Care is one part of a system. Some of the people in it work beside us every week; others are already part of your life. Either way, with your permission, everyone treating and training you works from the same picture of what your body needs.
Preferred partners
Already have a coach, trainer or therapist you trust? Keep them. We work with your team — not instead of it.
For coaches & cliniciansYour first visit
Your story
Your history, your injuries, your sport, your training, what you've tried, and what you want from your body.
Assessment
How you move, where you compensate, and what the tissue tells us.
Treatment
Hands-on work, specific to what the assessment found.
Plan
Built with you: what comes next, with whom on the team, when to return — and the daily habits that support it.
Initial visit
$250
Assessment & treatment · 60 minutes
Follow-up
$125
30 minutes · or $250 for 60 minutes
Payment is due at each visit by debit/credit card; HSA and FSA cards accepted. SportsLab Florida is not in-network with insurance plans. A card on file is required to book, per our cancellation policy. Returning patients: book the visit length recommended at your last visit. Follow-up packages are available for ongoing care — ask at your visit.
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