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Our friendly, welcoming staff will guide you through your visit at Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center. We work very hard to stay current with the latest techniques and technologies to provide the best care possible for all of our patients. We not only offer a variety of chiropractic adjusting techniques to cater to the needs of different patients, but we pride ourselves in our many other Health and Wellness services to help you live your healthiest life! We believe your overall health is like a big jigsaw puzzle with many moving pieces. We can assist you with each of those pieces (just pick one to start with!) and we will work with you to complete the best overall version of you!
Announcements & Resources
April 7, 2025Taste of Spring 2025
Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in our office for our first Taste of Spring event powered by JuicePlus! Come taste test our JuicePlus products and tour our facility to view all we have to offer at our Wellness Center. This event is for anyone who wants to improve their health journey by learning more about our JuicePlus products and Fresh Start wellness services. Door prizes and more will be available! There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public. Whether you are an existing JuicePlus customer, you just want to try the products, or you just want a tour of our facility, we want to see you Monday night!
Location:
Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center565 McElhattan Drive,Lock Haven, PA 17745
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April 1, 2025Benefits of Gardening
It’s gardening season and whether you are planting a vegetable garden, fruit bushes and trees, or a butterfly garden, gardening has health benefits that you might not know about!
Better Diet
If you are planting a vegetable or fruit garden, then this might be obvious to you. Fruits and vegetables are essential to our body as they provide vitamins and minerals that help our bodies to function. Not to mention the delicious cooking and baking flavors we can add to our meals once our garden provides some key ingredients!
Exercise
Up and down, up and down. That’s what we do when we garden. We bend over, squat, carry bags of mulch or shovel mulch, dig into the ground using our biceps, and much more! Gardening helps us to exercise in ways we didn’t even realize we were. Even if you have a raised garden bed, you are still walking back and forth from your garage or shed to get your next plant.
Disconnecting and Reconnecting
Anyone else love getting away from their electronics when you garden? We do! We put on our garden gloves and ignore our phones. (Don’t want to get our phones dirty with those gloves on!) Spending time away from electronics helps to clear our brain from noise. Reconnecting with nature through gardening helps us to release stress, enjoy the sounds of nature, breathe in fresh air, and get some Vitamin D from those sun rays!
Are you Vitamin D deficient? Learn about our Vitamin D supplement!
Outdoor Gardens Might be too Much for Some
If you aren’t able to have an outdoor garden, consider indoor gardening. Consider using a Tower Garden! Easily grow your own produce year-round with our vertical, aeroponic growing system! Have your own clean, fresh foods with no pesticides or herbicides and drastically cut your grocery budget by supplementing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs from your tower. This self-watering system allows plants to grow 3x faster with 30% more yield. No soil and no weeding means that this garden is much less time-consuming than traditional gardens and it takes up less than 5 square feet of space!
Spring Allergies and How to Cope
How to Celebrate Earth Day
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March 31, 2025Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
Yes, every year we celebrate Earth Day, but really, Earth Day is EVERY day. It’s easy to take daily things for granted like the land we live on and the air we breathe – and both come from our Earth. We need to be thankful for the things we take for granted. Here’s your reminder to thank Mother Earth, and here are a few ways to celebrate our Earth this Earth Day (April 15th) and every day.
Plant a Tree
This is probably the most obvious one because everyone suggests it. But, did you know that the air we breathe comes from trees? No trees = no air = no breathing. The more trees we have, the more fresh air we breathe.
Pick a Road and Pick up Litter
No one likes to see litter, especially in the areas they live in. Take a minute and think about the last time you drove past an area and said, “Eww. Look at that trash!” Get a few people together and spend an hour or two cleaning up that litter. Your lungs, the animals that live in that area, and others who pass by the area will thank us for this.
Plant a Garden
How about some fresh fruit or vegetables from your own backyard? The dirt and soil in our yards is just sitting there. Why not save some money this year and grow your own tomatoes? Or better yet, plant an apple tree for fresh apples and fresh oxygen. Apartment renter? Plant a single plant in a pot and stick it outside. Gardens don’t need to be big. They can be whatever imagine them to be in your space.
Go a step further and get a group of friends or neighbors together and plant a community garden where your whole community or neighborhood could enjoy the harvest. Everyone can pitch in and help make the neighborhood garden the best garden in the area.
Plant a Butterfly Garden
Insect numbers are dwindling as more housing complexes go up. Insects are good for pollination, nutrient cycling, pest control, and are good food sources for other animals. Planting a Butterfly Garden encourages good habitats for insects to live in or nearby. Plus, Butterfly Gardens will bring beautiful butterflies, humming birds, and bumble bees to the area. (Note: bumble bees do not have stingers!)
Remember our point above in the “Plant a Garden” section where we talk about neighborhood gardens? Why not have a neighborhood Butterfly Garden, too?
Recycle
We can’t stress this one enough. Recycling helps to reduce the amount of waste that is in our landfills. Picture it: When you toss something in the trash can, the trash gets picked up by trash trucks and is relocated to large areas of land. That land is now covered in just trash. Piles and piles of trash. Wouldn’t it be nice if that land was a butterfly garden instead? Recycling helps to reduce the amount of trash that sits on that land. Whether you used to recycle or have never recycled, start small this month and commit to recycling all plastic items instead of throwing them away. Next month, add to that – plastic and paper. Continue this pattern and before long, you’ll be cutting your trash down to one bag a week! Talk about saving money on trash bags!
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March 31, 2025Spring Allergies and How to Cope
It’s spring time and we all know what that means: POLLEN! We have a few ways that might help you get outside and enjoy the sunlight without feeling the negative effects of seasonal allergies.
Once a Week Salt Room Session
To maximize the benefits of a salt session, we recommend using our Salt Room once a week during peak allergy season. Salt acts like a sponge, attracting foreign substances (like pollen!) along its path out of the respiratory tract. Inhaled salt reduces inflammation, opens up airway passages, and eliminates foreign objects, leading to an improved immune system and increased oxygen flow. Schedule a session.
Natural D-Hist Supplment
Taking our Natural D-Hist supplement daily when symptoms are present may also help with allergy relief. Natural D-Hist benefits include:
Helps with seasonal allergies
Naturally anti-inflammatory
Decreases histamine response
Supports sinus and respiratory health
You may pick up this supplement from our front desk anytime during office hours.
Adjusting Your Spine
Have you had a chiropractic adjustment lately? Adjusting your spine with chiropractic care helps your body to function at its best and can help give your immune system the boost it needs to overcome the symptoms of allergies. Plus, adjustments can help those stuffy sinuses and ears to drain. Having an adjustment might be just what you need during your allergy flare-ups! Schedule an appointment.
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Events
Taste of Spring 2025
Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in our office for our first Taste of Spring event powered by JuicePlus! Come taste test our JuicePlus products and tour our facility to view all we have to offer at our Wellness Center. This event is for anyone who wants to improve their health journey by learning more about our JuicePlus products and Fresh Start wellness services. Door prizes and more will be available! There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public. Whether you are an existing JuicePlus customer, you just want to try the products, or you just want a tour of our facility, we want to see you Monday night!
Location:
Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center565 McElhattan Drive,Lock Haven, PA 17745
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Sourdough Gut Health Workshop – April 27, 2025Join us on April 27, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. for our Sourdough Gut Health Workshop! This is our last one until fall. In-home workshops available by request.
What’s this Sourdough craze all about? Join Dr. Fawn Shaffer and her team for a fun Sunday afternoon and we’ll show you!
Bring a large mixing bowl, your favorite mixing spoon or spatula, and an apron (if you’re worried about getting messy). We’ll supply the rest! You’ll leave with your own sourdough starter, a sourdough loaf that you have started and can finish baking at home, and the directions to keep your starter alive and healthy at home.
Location
Woolrich Community Center1080 Park AvenueWoolrich, PA 17745
How to Register
Cost is $20/person with proceeds going to Roads to Peace. Space is limited and classes fill quickly, so please RSVP to reserve your spot. You MUST pre-register by contacting Sally Young at (570) 295-7213. Venmo, PayPal, cash, or check accepted.
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Sourdough Gut Health Workshop – March 16, 2025Join us on March 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. for our Sourdough Gut Health Workshop!
What’s this Sourdough craze all about? Join Dr. Fawn Shaffer and her team for a fun Sunday afternoon and we’ll show you!
Bring a large mixing bowl, your favorite mixing spoon or spatula, and an apron (if you’re worried about getting messy). We’ll supply the rest! You’ll leave with your own sourdough starter, a sourdough loaf that you have started and can finish baking at home, and the directions to keep your starter alive and healthy at home.
Location
Woolrich Community Center1080 Park AvenueWoolrich, PA 17745
How to Register
Cost is $20/person with proceeds going to Brian Oechler Kindness Project. Space is limited and classes fill quickly, so please RSVP to reserve your spot. You MUST pre-register by contacting Sally Young at (570) 295-7213. Venmo, PayPal, cash, or check accepted.
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