Garden City, ID Health and Fitness

Pulse Holistic Health is a cooperative of like minded therapists committed to bringing health to the community. We offer acupuncture, Amma therapy, holistic nutrition, herbs, movement and more.

Each of the three licensed chiropractors at Better Life Chiropractic became chiropractors as a direct result of their own positive experiences with chiropractic treatments. Doctor of Chiropractic Roy Strickland’s chiropractor helped him overcome inexplicable pains when he lived in Japan. Dr. Nathan Olsen’s mother cleared her migraines with chiropractic adjustments, and Dr. Jed Badders recovered from a fractured vertebra and broken pelvic bone due to a car accident with chiropractic care. The doctors now devote themselves to the arts of fostering health from the inside out with holistic, drug-free massages and spinal-decompression techniques.

The team emphasizes communication with patients. Before adjusting spines, the doctors explain everything in advance, answering questions and quizzical eyebrow raises to ensure patients stay privy to the goals of each technique and are able to participate in their own wellness regime and give feedback to the doctors.

Jennifer Parker knows what it’s like to suffer through chronic pain. When she found relief through massage therapy, she felt inspired to study at the Apollo College massage-therapy program. There, she honed the skills that she practices while presiding at Body Harmony Massage. As a clinic rather than a spa, Body Harmony Massage focuses on massage as a path to health less tedious than eating an apple a day. Its licensed practitioners treat a wide array of conditions, such as headaches, sciatica, and back pain. They tackle these complaints with massage modalities including the gliding effleurage of Swedish kneading and the resistive stretching of PNF—proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation—which can rehabilitate weakened muscles.

Back2Life’s staff of massage therapists promotes overall health with a range of wellness services. Muscles relax under healing strokes during custom massage-therapy sessions, which can feature soothing supplements such as aromatherapy.

The multifaceted fitness facility Bodies in Motion keeps every family member active with its fitness programs, martial arts classes, and children’s activities. With Open Motion sessions, kids zip down the racing wave slide, tackle a high-ropes course, or dart around outstretched hands during refereed games of Capture the Flag. Toddlers build cognitive abilities and skills in group music classes, and Strong Totz programs teach kids how various sports work. For example, on week one, kids might learn to be soccer players, and on week two, they might learn how to negotiate a multimillion-dollar sports contract.

While kids play, parents blast calories during classes such as aerobic kickboxing and extreme conditioning or cement their trust on high-ropes courses for couples. Parents and kids refuel after a hard day of motion at the onsite Sandella's Flatbread Café, which staves off hunger pangs with healthy food, including quesadillas, paninis, and wraps that are just the right weight to fool any gods looking to take firstborn children.

A Reason to Smile's Dr. Craig Smith, who became Idaho’s first Premier Invisalign provider in 2006 and currently resides in the top 5% of Invisalign practitioners in North America, beautifies smiles with the help of advanced technology. In order to keep pearly whites in peak condition, Dr. Smith combines the knowledge gained from advanced course work with technologies such as the DiagnoDent laser tool, which can locate even the smallest cavity hidden in the tooth and boil water from 200 feet away. He also employs Cerec technology to create custom-fit ceramic restorations with 3-D-imaging software, salivary DNA tests to screen for gum disease, and sedation dentistry to make trips to the dentist as relaxing as a nap on milkweed floss.