April Showers Bring May…Showers (and a Hyperice Sale!)

May 3rd, 2022|0 Comments

April Showers Bring May...Showers (and a Hyperice Sale!) April happened and it's already May! The weather is, in theory, getting warmer, and it's really nice to see people outside more. I, too, have been spotted running (rather, very slowly jogging) through the neighborhood on some of our warmer days. With the nicer days coming up, it's really important to breathe [...]

Rivalry Week!

October 22nd, 2021|0 Comments

Rivalry Week! If you're a Wolverine or Sparty fan, then you know the big game is coming up soon! Starting October 18 and going through October 29 (ending at 1pm on Friday, Oct 29), we're going to be collecting non-perishable food items for a local food pantry - Neighborhood House. There will be two bins set up (one for MSU and [...]

Want Us to Come to Your Business/Group? 

We are more than happy to come to your office, gym, scrapbooking group, bootcamp, yoga studio…you get the idea!…for a demonstration of how our office can help you and your business or group.  We can arrange a day and time and one of our chiropractors and/or massage therapist can come to you to explain what we do and how we can get your group feeling and moving better.  For more information, please reach out to our practice manager, Ericca, at Ericca@troybodyworks.com.

Meet Jamie!

March 6th, 2021|0 Comments

I have used chiropractors my entire adult life.  It was kind of hit and miss over the years, as I [...]

Health Update

Information about health, exercise, and nutrition can be found everywhere these days. Quick access to information is both a really cool thing and it can also be overwhelming at times. Have knee pain? Well, you can read about a million websites talking about knee pain – what causes it, how to make it better, who to see, what exercises to do, what vitamin will help, when to get surgery, etc – and leave with about a million different things and no real answers or the complete wrong answer.

So, I’m going to throw out a short list of some really good reading. The following are books that I’ve read (a couple are ones that have come highly recommended) and have found some really valuable information while reading them.

-Pressing Reset: Original Strength Reloaded by Tim Anderson

– The Becoming Bulletproof Project: Discovering the Hero Within by Tim Anderson

–Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by Dr. John Ratey

-Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

-Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

-Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes

-Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep us Safe by Maria Rodale

-In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

-Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise by Alex Hutchinson