Life in Motion Chiropractic and Wellness, PLLC

03/04/2026

We still have some openings for Chiropractic Massage and Chiropractic appointments for this week 🙌

Call soon to schedule as these will go fast! 🥰

(814) 561-1055

02/27/2026

What is better than Chiropractic and Massage?? BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER ON THE SAME DAY!!!! 🥰🙌

Dr. Cheyenne Konrad offers 1 hour or half hour chiropractic massage with your choice to get adjusted after the appointment for a small additional fee!

1 hour Chiropractic Massage $75

30 Minute Chiropractic Massage $40

Add $25 for full body adjustment to either session 😁


Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/19/2026

Sean P. Konrad, DC

What if one of the most powerful brain health interventions isn’t a supplement, a drug, or a biohack, but a 30-minute walk?

A randomized clinical trial in the Journal of Sport and Health Science assigned adults ages 26 to 58 to follow an aerobic exercise program targeting 150 minutes per week for 12 months. On MRI, their brains shifted to look about 0.95 years “younger” than the control group on a brain-age algorithm.

That might not sound dramatic, but brain aging is cumulative, and small shifts add up.

What I love about this study is the age range. These benefits showed up in early and midlife, not just later decades.

Exercise likely supports brain health through multiple pathways, including improved cerebral blood flow and neuroplasticity, although the exact mechanisms behind the brain-age shift are still being worked out.

Thirty minutes, five days a week. Move at a pace where you notice your breathing change.

Your future cognitive health is being shaped by what you do today. 🧠

Wan L, Molina-Hidalgo C, Crisafio ME, Grove G, Leckie RL, Kamarck TW, et al. Fitness and exercise effects on brain age: A randomized clinical trial. J Sport Health Sci. 2025 Aug 13;15(101079):101079

02/19/2026

A new study published in Cell Metabolism found that chemicals released by intestinal microbes can be captured from breath and used to identify the bacteria living in a child’s gut. When researchers tested children with asthma, they found that the breath analysis could predict the presence of Eubacterium siraeum, a specific bacterium associated with the respiratory condition.

“The data is very promising and exciting, especially if it can lead to improvement in care of patients with common childhood disorders such as asthma,” Dr. Pradnya Mitroo, a board-certified gastroenterologist and president and CEO of Fresno Digestive Health, who was not involved in the study, told The Epoch Times.

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Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/19/2026

You’re busy and have a lot going on, and there doesn’t seem to ever be enough time to do everything you want and need to do, especially when it comes to exercising. It’s easy to prescribe an extensive exercise set, or an exercise course that unfolds throughout the week in a one-thing-after-another format that, yes, is highly effective, but no, you don’t always have the time to do it.

Research detailing how effective routine exercise is abounds, and at the end of the day, we can accomplish a substantial benefit for our bodies if we can find just a little bit of time for exercise.

What, exactly, is a compound exercise, you ask? A compound exercise is a movement that engages multiple muscle groups at the same time and involves more than one joint. The exercises I’ve chosen for this routine involve moving many joints simultaneously. The benefit? They’re highly efficient, so you get a maximal return for the time you spend doing them. They also train your body in functional movement patterns that can benefit your everyday movements.

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Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/17/2026

Before I finalize my exit from the chiropractic profession in pursuit of one of the other employment opportunities I have applied for, I felt it necessary to address the considerable blow-back, among other adjectives I could use, we have received over our decision to close our Ridgway location as well as our exit from accepting insurance.

As I am sure you are all aware, the economy over the last few years hasn’t been the greatest and it has affected us all in different ways. That being said, our experience was a dramatic decrease in business in both of our office locations, which, given the cost of gas, milk and bread these days is understandable. Instead of making a rash, uneducated decision, we held out for as long as we could to see if the issue was greater in one location or another. After approximately 18 months we found that our attrition rate was equal in both office locations and therefore our decision came down to a matter of math. Our overhead in Ridgway was far greater (gas, electric, internet/phone, and then add to that travel expense and office supplies) and therefore our decision was based on the financial bleeding our business was experiencing given our operating costs. This was a life choice ALL FAMILIES that run a small business make in their day-to-day operations and unfortunately after 10 years, our Ridgway location had to go. The attrition from this decision just didn’t make sense to us since the travel distance and time from Ridgway to our office in Kane is only 11 miles and 9.1 minutes more than a trip to the Walmart in St. Marys (via the most expedient route on Google maps) that most make on a weekly basis without a second thought.

As for our insurance decision, it was also one that wasn’t made lightly, but given that all insurance companies stopped paying for many of our services as well as the fact that many of the co-pays for chiropractic care became more than our self-pay rate, that action was based on the affordability of cost to the patient for care. In fact, many of our UPMC patients went to self-pay even prior to our insurance exit because that co-pay was $10 more than our cash rate for care.

Not only that, many people, due to the overall cost per available insurance policies, have been forced to take high deducible plans which means that until your insurance deductible has been met the patient is forced to pay the full rate that we bill to the insurance company which turned out to be, in many cases, $30 more than our self-pay rate for just a standard established patient follow-up visit (it was $40 - $60 more for an initial visit). We were forced, by our contract with the various insurance companies, to charge patients this rate, to do otherwise would be insurance fraud. SO, it was our decision to TAKE A CONSIDERABLE PAY CUT PER VISIT in order to make the cost for care in our office MORE AFFORDABLE, tell me how many businesses would do that for their customers?

On top of that, we were incurring costs due to this change because every week we would have to spend 3-4 hours processing insurance claims that we weren’t being paid for since the patient had already paid that claim up front and therefore we were showing no return on investment because it was left up to one of us, every Thursday, to stop seeing patients so that these claims could be filled out and then submitted to their respective insurance company which meant that one of us WASN’T GENERATING ANY INCOME for the business in order to supply the insurance company with data so they could deduct the money - ALREADY PAID - from the patient’s insurance deductible. Which meant, at our cash rate, we were losing $300 - $400 PER WEEK in generated income!!

BOTTOM LINE – we took a substantial pay cut in order to make treatment more affordable FOR EVERYONE! Could we charge more, YES, and many offices in this area do from what we’ve been told from patients who have decided to go elsewhere only to return to care in our office due to price as well as the level of excellence in hands-on care we provide our patients.

We are still allowed to accept HSA and FSA cards because that money is set aside on those accounts for healthcare related expenses. We even on some occasions, will provide the patient an itemized health insurance claim form for patients whose card companies give them a hard time about this expenditure even though our supplied receipt clearly states what type of business made such a charge on their account.

So, what is the cost in our office – well for an initial new patient visit, which is a 45 minute to one hour appointment based on the severity of the case, is $100. When we were accepting insurance, depending on the level of care we would provide in different cases this cost was, on average, $140 to $160. A follow-up visit, which is a 20–30-minute appointment in our office, is $50. When we were accepting insurance, most co-pays, even with Blue Cross, had become $60 and if you had a high-deductible plan, on average, the cost to the patient was at minimum $79. Again, we took a substantial pay cut so that the musculoskeletal care we provide was more affordable!

I thank you for your time in reading my diatribe but I felt I owed it to myself after 15 years of practice to get that off my chest and explain in detail to all those who have been considerably upset over our business decisions. Not sure where my next move will be but I want to thank everyone who has supported us over the last decade in this area and may you all have a blessed day.

Respectfully,
Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/12/2026

It was the very first night of my two-week vacation, and I had just arrived at my mother’s house after a 12-hour drive. My mother was happy to see me, and we spent a great evening catching up on all the local goings-on. We turned in early, anticipating a fun tomorrow. Well, that was the plan, anyway.

That night, in the wee hours of the morning, Mom got up to go to the bathroom and promptly fell—the first time she had ever done so in her life. It banged her up right proper, and she spent the better part of the next week in the hospital. Upon her return home, I had to extend my vacation to help her get back to her old self. Thus, I have both professional and personal experience with falls and their consequences.

can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime—and can be particularly dangerous in the dark of night.

Let’s do something about falls. Trust me, it’s a whole lot easier to avoid them than to fix the consequences.

Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/11/2026

Still have some Valentines Treats in the office! Stop by and grab some before they are sold out!❤️

02/09/2026

Most of us have experienced this: You stayed up a bit too late the night before, and although your body turned up to work, your mind was elsewhere.

Blanking out during the day is common for the sleep-deprived, and now researchers have found out why it happens.

When people experience attention lapses after poor sleep, a wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain.

During sleep, cerebrospinal fluid—part of the brain’s cleaning system—flushes away waste products, but sleep deprivation forces this process to activate during waking hours.

“If you don’t sleep, the [cerebrospinal fluid] CSF waves start to intrude into wakefulness where normally you wouldn’t see them,” senior study author Laura Lewis, an associate professor at MIT, said in a press statement. “They come with an attentional tradeoff, where attention fails during the moments that you have this wave of fluid flow.”

Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/09/2026

Your treats what it sees in reels the same way it treats ***ne. Both experiences flood a thumbnail-sized region of the with —a chemical that makes you want more, right now. The problem is that after a certain amount of dopamine hits, your brain adapts by turning down the pleasure volume. As a result, things that once made you feel good are no longer enough.

If you’re finding it harder to feel simple joy and genuine connections, you’re experiencing what addiction psychiatrists now recognize as dopamine overload, a state where constant stimulation—especially from cellphones, social media, and ultra-processed foods—quietly erodes your ability to feel your happiest emotions and leaves relationships feeling painfully empty. However, there is hope—through learning to rebalance our reward systems, we can rediscover contentment in simple things.​

Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/09/2026

“Your body doesn’t need added ,” Dr. Jason Fung, a specializing in reversing , told The Epoch Times.

Despite that reality, if you’re eating the standard , you’re likely getting quite a bit of added sugar. If you decide to cut this out of your diet, with a few reasonable exceptions, you will experience some unexpected changes, research finds.

Sean P. Konrad, DC

02/06/2026

Most people are searching for the next thing…

When their health is actually responding to the same few signals every day.
From a pharmacist’s perspective, progress comes from consistency.

When the foundation is solid, the body regulates far more on its own than people realize.

Save this as a reminder that simple done daily beats perfect done once.