OCCUPATIONAL CHIROPRACTIC
AND
APPLIED ERGONOMICS
VOLUME 2, NO. 3
Published by the
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF
CHIROPRACTIC OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANTS
© Copyright 2004 IACOHC. All rights reserved.
“International in scope and membership
…a nonprofit organization fostering public health and safety through education,
ergonomics, optimal clinical management and other measures…since 1983.”
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JEFFREE GARS, DC:
AN EXUBERANT FORCE! IMPACTING GEORGIA
An aging workforce, hectic schedules, pressing demands
of home and work life - - all are contributing factors that
can lead to high stress. The result is a tremendous and
costly toll on health for the individual, and presenteeism
resulting in lost productivity for the employer. As the
workforce ages, wellness and health maintenance will
continue to be an issue facing employers. Experts say
that roughly 50 – 60% of all lost work days are in some
way stress-related, and costs to employers for health
care, workplace accidents, and decreased production
continues to escalate. An employee with limited energies
and abilities to perform daily work functions results in
presenteeism – basically, showing up for work, meaning
productivity suffers as the employee does.
Jeffree S. Gars, DC, is in the business of
‘delivering results for life and business’. What once
began as Heals-on-Wheels, LLC, a mobile health care
practice, Dr. Gars with his 16 years of expertise on
stress management in the workplace, founded and
developed Exuberant Force!. Exuberant Force! is an
on-site wellness program for workplaces that delivers a
menu of health services to include stress-relief,
neuromuscular massage, stress-relief chiropractic health
care, relaxation therapy, stress management
educational and wellness programs, and postural
analysis blood pressure monitoring.
Each week Dr. Gars is able to be on-site with
his clients companies to provide employees with 15
minute stress reducing therapies, and educate about
effects of unmanaged stress and instructed of
techniques to take control of the stress and stressors in
their lives. The appeal for employees is not having to fit
yet one more appointment into time after work; the
benefit to the employer is people stay at work, receive a
expedient therapeutic service, and return to the job with
renewed enthusiasm and energies. Exuberant Force!
also delivers multi-media workshops for companies.
One client says, “Exuberant Force! has been
coming to our company for more than 5 years and
relieving stress. Having stress-relief at work is great
because that is where it’s needed the most. I feel
refreshed and ready to get back to work. Plus, by having
treatments in the office it saves me the time it would
take to go somewhere else” (Contract Sales
Representative). Dr. Gars’ Exuberant Force! company
has been serving client companies located throughout
Atlanta and northern Georgia since 1995.
Dr. Gars’ on-site wellness company is changing
the lives of people as they reap the benefits of
managing stress for better more restful sleep, renewed
physical and immune system strength, mental and
emotional strength, increased levels of energy and
concentration – all things that matter to being able to
effectively and joyfully fulfill the daily requirements of
home, family, work, social and personal life obligations
and commitments. His client industries include financial
services, housing, publishing, professional practice,
technology and others.
Employers are keenly aware of the human
resource and financial benefits of bringing therapeutic
services to the workplace so that employees remain at
work while getting the attention they need for health
and wellness. The health of a company in relation to
productivity and employee morale depends on the
health of its workforce.
Dr. Jeffree S. Gars may be reached at
(404)280-3366, or at info@exuberantforce.com.
He is a longtime member of the IACOHC – and is a trend-setter for
DCs around the nation for working with industrial clients.
