Background
DeStefano was born and raised in New Jersey.
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DeStefano was born and raised in New Jersey.
After a high school athletic career of track, football, decathlon, power-lifting, and lacrosse, DeStefano attended Kutztown University of Pennsylvania on a football scholarship, and then earned a rugby scholarship to Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, where he earned his District of Columbia Soon after graduation, he earned his CCSP (Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician), and attended his first A.R.T. (Active Release Techniques) seminar.
He is a team doctor for the New York based Football Team the New York Giants, and competitive triathlete. He has spoken and taught manual therapies nationally for 15 years, and has appeared on The View, and Sirius and XM Radio, as well as many local television and radio programs. In 1986. ART Instructor
After a few years of practicing chiropractic medicine and ART, he became an ART instructor.
From the early 90"s to 2009.
DeStefano has taught at over 100 ART seminars and related teaching and lecturing events. He has assisted in certifying thousands of ART providers.
He is currently launching his own seminars to promote integrative healthcare and self treatment. Practice
DeStefano opened his first offices in Ridgefield Park and in Lodi, New Jersey in 1987, his first New York office in 1999, at Louisiana Palestra on the upper west side.
In 2002 Doctor Rob became an official ART provider to the New York Football Giants, seeing them through their 2008 Super Bowl XLII Championship and continuing at present as the official ART provider and also the official Chiropractor.
2009 saw the opening of his first two satellite offices in New York, in The Orion and The Ariel. Within these offices and also in the field, he has worked with athletes of all levels including the United States Olympic Bobsled/Luge/Skeleton teams, United States Olympic Hockey Team, the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, LPGA, and the NFL. On September 15, 2009, DeStefano released his first book, Muscle Medicine, with Bryan Kelly and Joe Hooper, about the diagnosis and treatment of muscle, and muscle’s important role in the future of healthcare. He is currently developing a new treatment technique and self-treatment modality to compliment doctor care that has already been successfully adopted by many of his athletes and patients.
In 2010 he has plans introduce a piece of exercise equipment, and a self-treatment tool, which is already being used by national, professional sports teams.
Inventor
DeStefano has developed two pieces of exercise equipment: a variation on the kettlebell, in development. And a self treatment tool, the F.A.S.T. Stick currently in usage by pro athletes, and available to the public in 2010.