How this partnership started
Root-cause work has a structural side and a systemic side. The structural side is what we do at Thera Performance Lab — kinetic chain assessment, manual therapy, the RX2600, and the slow rebuild of how the joints, tissue, and movement patterns are loading. The systemic side is inflammation, nutrition, sleep, gut function, and the hormonal and lifestyle context the body has to recover inside of. Neither half can fix what the other half owns.
Heather Shalayko's practice at Wild + Rooted Holistic Health in downtown Oxford is the systemic half done right. Holistic Health Practitioner, Certified Wellness Practitioner, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Clinical Herbalist — Heather built Wild + Rooted around the same idea TPL was built around. Stop chasing symptoms. Find what is actually driving them. Treat the underlying system, not the surface reading.
When the two halves run side by side, active adults stop bouncing between practitioners who only see one piece. Wild + Rooted addresses the inside. TPL addresses the outside. The kinetic chain heals faster when the systemic environment is right, and the systemic work pays off faster when the body can finally move without compensation.
Who Wild + Rooted serves
Wild + Rooted runs out of 6A S Washington St. in Oxford. The practice serves active adults across Oakland County who want a holistic, evidence-informed approach to chronic complaints — fatigue that won't lift, recurring inflammation, digestive issues, sleep that does not restore, hormonal patterns that need attention, postpartum recovery, and the lactation and wellness work that sits underneath all of it.
Heather's training spans Holistic Health Practitioner certification, a Master of Public Health, advanced naturopathy study, and clinical herbalism. The wellness consultations build a protocol the patient can actually carry — diet adjustments, targeted herbal support, lifestyle structure — and follow up over months, not single visits. It is the kind of practice active adults who are tired of seven-minute primary-care appointments have been looking for.
How we work together
The referral pattern runs both directions, and the seam is clean.
TPL patients who need the systemic side go to Heather. Inflammation that keeps flaring even when the structural work is dialed in. Fatigue that is undermining recovery. Sleep issues, gut issues, postpartum questions, hormonal context that is dragging on the tissue's ability to heal. Anyone who needs a holistic protocol that complements the kinetic chain plan we built off the Complete Kinetic Chain Assessment.
Wild + Rooted clients with structural pain come to us. People doing the right nutritional and herbal work who still have a hip that locks up, a shoulder that will not press overhead, low-back tightness that never quite resolves, arthritis flares that fitness alone is not solving, or postpartum patterns where movement compensation has built up over months. Those are the cases where systemic care has done what it can and the body now needs hands, the RX2600, and a real movement plan.
Neither side oversells. Heather will tell you when a problem is structural and she is not the right person. We will tell you when a chronic muscle-tightness pattern is downstream of inflammation we cannot reach, and Heather is the right call.
The partnership offer
Wild + Rooted clients book the Complete Kinetic Chain Assessment for $79 instead of the standard $99 — a $20 discount on the entry visit. Same 60-minute assessment, same one-on-one with the Doctor of Physical Therapy, same RX2600 treatment included. Mention Wild + Rooted when you book, or use the dedicated partner-referral link above.
Where the two protocols connect
Three of the most common overlap cases:
Chronic inflammation + recurring tightness
When low-back, hip, or shoulder tightness keeps coming back even after the structural work is sound, the answer is often systemic. Heather's protocol addresses the inflammatory load — gut, food sensitivities, sleep, stress patterns — while TPL keeps the tissue, joints, and movement patterns from getting locked into a guarding response. Within a few weeks, the structural side stops needing to redo the same release work.
Postpartum recovery
The postpartum window is where a kinetic chain rebuilds while the body's systemic context is in flux. Wild + Rooted handles lactation, nutrition, sleep structure, and the hormonal side. TPL handles the pelvic-floor coordination, the rib mechanics, the neck and upper-back tension that comes with carrying and feeding, and the hip and core work that lets a return-to-training plan actually happen. Together it is recovery instead of just management.
Fatigue blocking training adaptation
Active adults trying to train through chronic fatigue rarely make progress. Heather addresses what is actually driving the fatigue — inflammation, micronutrient gaps, sleep architecture, hormonal patterns. Once the systemic floor is rising, TPL can shift the structural work from "manage symptoms" to "build durability," and the sports-injuries cycle of "train through it, get hurt, sit out, repeat" finally breaks.
In Tim's words
Holistic care has a structural side and a systemic side, and almost no one runs them in parallel. Heather and I refer to each other because the patient is the only one who wins when we do. She does the inside work we can't do. We do the outside work she can't do. Same root-cause philosophy, two different toolkits.
Who this is for
- Active adults with chronic complaints that have one foot in nutrition / lifestyle and one foot in movement / structure. The two-track approach is the difference between management and resolution.
- Postpartum women who need lactation, nutrition, and hormonal support from Heather AND the pelvic, rib, and upper-back work that TPL handles on the structural side.
- People dealing with chronic inflammation whose herbal and nutritional protocol is on track but who still have stubborn tissue patterns that need hands and a kinetic chain plan.
- Wild + Rooted clients exploring root-cause care who want a structural counterpart to the systemic work — one who shares the same philosophy and will not push generic protocols.
Ready to address both sides? Book your $79 partner-referral assessment or reach out via /contact with questions first.