Baker Chiropractic celebrates Eight Weeks to Wellness program
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Baker Chiropractic and Rehab LLC celebrated its Eight Weeks to Wellness program Tuesday morning. The program is designed to help anyone interested in becoming healthier find a path to a successful lifestyle. Eight Weeks to Wellness Coordinator Erin Leslie cuts the ribbon while Lena Smith, left, and Rachael Martin, right, hold the ribbon.
Dr. Matthew Baker is a practicing chiropractor, but his business, Baker Chiropractic and Rehab LLC, has expanded its reach with an eight-week program.
“In the eight weeks to wellness program, we figure out what the patient needs exercise wise, stress, mediation and when we look at the nervous system, we look to see what they need chiropractic wise,” Baker said. “After that, we let the patient know based on their score why we made the decision and how the program works.”
In order for an individual to begin the program, the patient undergoes several tests including testing body mass index, fat mass, core strength, total cholesterol and more.
The results are crucial to discover what an individual’s posture number, core strength and flexibility, body fat percent and heart rate variability. Baker said one of the main reasons for the program is to help people feel better and live healthier lifestyles.
“The program has been going for a year,” Baker said. “My wife and I dug into it last year and we knew that we wanted to add more things to our program. Being a chiropractor is awesome, but if people are going home stressed out, eating poorly and not exercising, am I really making the difference in health? That’s why I added the program, not only did I want to be healthier, I wanted to give people a good process to make themselves healthier.”
Baker said several different types of people have participated in the program.
“I have skinny people come in to get stronger, more mobile and decrease stress level,” Baker said. “At the same time, I have overweight people come in that just want to focus on weight, diabetes, heart disease, and there’s a change in energy from the program. I think that’s the biggest surprise for people, they find out that they have more energy. We teach people how to deal with stress differently through mediation and it makes people happy.”
To learn more about the eight-week program, you can visit bakerchirorehab.com. Baker said that in the near future, there will be more than 70 testimonials from different people on the website detailing how the program helped them.
“It’s always growing as we bring more people into our practice,” Baker said. “We get people from different angles and different reasons for coming. The best thing about 8WW is that there’s going to be an improvement for each person.”
For more information about the program or Baker Chiropractic and Rehab LLC contact Baker or Dr. Samantha White at 660.582.4357.
