Sacred Heart launches food and excerise clinic

Sacred Heart University launched a Life and Sport Analysis Clinic May 1 to offer clients and patients nutrition and exercise advice.

A smaller version of the clinic has been around since 2009, but will now be fully staffed and operational. Using contemporary-based research and state-of-the art lab equipment, clinic technicians say they’ll be able to help patients better achieve their health goals.

“The idea was born a few years ago when a couple of the faculty on campus noticed that there was a missing link within the health care system,” said Brendan Rickert, a clinical exercise scientist, in a press release. “So we created something that does not exist in many other places in the area or in the country. We”™re trying to be on the cutting edge of modern.”

Rickert says the clinic will be able to help a wide range of people as different as a 5K runner and a 70 year old who wants to lose weight. In the future, he believes the clinic’s services will be complementary to physical therapy clinics.