New owner carries on OsteoStrong mission
Hall, a Registered Nurse and certified health and wellness coach, explained OsteoStrong is a membership-based integrative health and wellness center.
“We’re not a gym or a health club,” she added. “We focus on increasing bone density, muscular-skeletal strengthening, balance, posture and improving athletic performance.”
OsteoStrong Farragut uses a patented system that uses a process called osteogenic loading.
“It impacts your whole body,” Hall said. “Osteogenic loading is based on the science of (Dr. Julius) Wolffe’s Law. … He determined when you have heavy loads on the bone, your bone is going to adapt to the load; it’s going to begin to remodel itself; it’s going to increase its density that’s called osteogenic loading, and that’s what our machines provide.
“(Wolffe’s) science dates back to the 1800s; but since that time, there have been numerous (peer-reviewed) studies explaining why this works,” she added. “You’ve heard where people are encouraged to do weight-bearing exercises, which are good; however, according to the science, in order to achieve improvement in bone density (osteogenesis) you need to have an impact of at least 4.2 multiples of your body weight.
“Think of a gymnast “sticking” the landing off a balance beam, which isn’t a realistic scenerio for most of us.”
The machines offer a way for an average person to achieve this loading in a short span of time, and you can do it safely without injuring yourself,” said Hall, adding the machines, called the Spectrum system, were developed by Dr. John Jaquish for his mother who had osteoporosis.
Hall is joined in the center by two session coaches – OsteoStrong founder the late Dee Matchett’s daughter, Glory Ledbetter, who also a naturopathic doctor, and Diane Smith, who also is a marketing specialist – and Ken Kuzel, center manager.
OsteoStrong Farragut is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday. To book appointments, call 423-839-6600. For more information, visit centers.osteosteostrong.me/tennessee-farragut.
She also is on Facebook at “Osteostrong Farragut”
People dealing with osteopenia or osteoporosis are not the only clients at OsteoStrong. Hall said athletes use the center to improve their strength and athletic performance.
The business initially was opened by Matchett in 2016 at the Aspen Square location.
“I was a client there starting in January 2021,” Hall recalled, having moved to Farragut from outside the Chicago area.
“I came in (to OsteoStrong) because I had osteopenia,” she added. “Within that time frame (that she was a client), I remained the same on one hip and I improved three points on the other hip. So, to me, I feel that’s a great improvement in a very short amount of time, without pharmaceuticals.
However, Matchett, Hall’s coach, died in December 2021.
“She was a very, very dear, wonderful person,” Hall said of Matchett. As such, purchasing the business has been “a bittersweet situation” for Hall, who took over ownership in July.
“I obviously was saddened by the loss of Dee — there’s only one Dee — but then, I’m honored to carry on the tradition, the culture to keep OsteoStrong alive here,” Hall said.
She decided to carry on the center because she realized “without keeping that center open, there would be no availability for anyone here.
“I subsequently had many of our members say to me, personally, ‘we’re so thankful this center is still here because it’s such a needed benefit for (clients with) osteoporosis and just general muscular-skeletal strengthening and improvement of the quality of life.’ And, that’s how I felt,” Hall said.
“Our team at Osteostrong Farragut is on a mission to help empower individuals to holistically achieve their health and wellness goals during all stages of life,” she added.
