The Strength for Life^® Health and Fitness Center is a multidisciplinary clinic in Northampton, Massachusetts. The professional services we offer include complete chiropractic care, physical therapy and rehabilitation, massage, and comprehensive adult exercise and weight control programs. Our facility is unique in this region because of the high degree of interprofessional coordination between our chiropractic and physical therapy staff members. Stated simply, our practice philosophy is that patients benefit most when they have easy

A Strength for Life® Trainee Exercises at the Clinic

access to the treatments offered by both of these natural healing professions. The primary emphasis of our treatment program is to help each patient develop a personal and ongoing exercise and nutritional plan to become and stay healthy for as long as possible. This requires active daily commitment by each individual, which is precisely what most people need today in a world that is overly mechanized and in a population that is overly medicated. When our patients, no matter their age, discover or rediscover the thrill and the power that come from feeling stronger and more vigorious again, they are truly motivated to exercise intelligently and eat nutritiously every day.

What is the secret to our approach?

It is very simple. We respect each patient as a unique individual. If he or she needs help due to an injury, surgery, or a painful condition, we apply straight-forward chiropractic treatment and/or physical therapy to speed their recovery. During rehabilitation, each patient is taught exercises that not only promote healing from the initial condition but which also help to prevent future recurrences. And we do not stop there. Once a patient is back to good health, we encourage him or her to become a Strength for Life^® trainee and to strive for excellent health.

In addition to patients who continue to exercise with us after completing rehabilitation, many adults who are not injured or in pain begin our Strength for Life^® program simply because they feel their strength and health are slipping and they want to do all they can to feel vigorous and enjoy life to the fullest again. Here is where they find the information, the training, the encouragement, and the ongoing supervision that are so necessary for success in any exercise setting. Offering these essential services to our trainees is what makes our facility and our program stand out above the unsupervised memberships in almost all health clubs and gyms.