Good reason to celebrate

By MICHAEL ROY

Editor

Vibrant Chiropractic had good reason to celebrate this past Friday, May 5.

The day marked four years since Dr. Mackenzie Hoy started her chiropractic business and nearly a year and a half since the business had a physical location in Waseca. To celebrate, Vibrant Chiropractic held an open house from 4-6:30 p.m.

Hoy’s first experience with chiropractic medicine was when she had to visit a chiropractor in high school after starting to feel pains in her back at a cheer camp. While she was “amazed by the body’s ability to get better with adjustments to the spine,” she never considered becoming a chiropractor herself.

“I had always wanted to work in a profession that helps people feel better,” she says in her biography.

After being rejected from entering a nursing program, she figured it was a sign that she wasn’t meant to be a nurse. “So, I did what any 20-year-old college student would do,” she explains. “I decided to pick a major that would still get me out in four years and trusted God would take care of the rest.”

When Hoy was a junior in college, a chiropractor visited one of her classes to explain his business. According to her, it was the first time a “holistic model of health” made sense.

She turned her attention toward the career field “and never looked back,” she says.

The rest is history.

After getting her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in December of 2014, she attended Life University in Marietta, Georgia in September of 2015, earning her Doctorate of Chiropractic in March of 2019.

She now recommends everyone consider visiting a chiropractor for various reasons, including even such surprising options as the inability to get pregnant or the feeling that one may need allergy shots. And it’s not because she’s trying to sell her own business. It’s because she’s seen the results herself.

“I got consistent care,” she remembers of that early experience. Though she once believed the shoulder pain from her cheerleading injury would be with her for life, it went away–and so did some persistent allergy symptoms.

Her training and time have led to four years in the chiropractic business, as well as over a year of being at her current location on State Street.

As part of the open house celebrations, there were a free yoga session, a photo booth, a do-it-yourself tie-dye shirt station, and food provided by Blake’s Bettor Spread, a food truck from Waseca.