david becker/viewDr. Ian Yamane, owner and clinic director of Nevada Rehabilitation Centers, stands in an exam room at NRC’s newest location, a combined facility with Valhalla Med Spa at 6800 W. Cheyenne Ave.
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Nevada Rehabilitation Centers recently marked its growth with a grand opening celebration for its newest expansion, a combined NRC facility and Valhalla Med Spa at 6800 W. Cheyenne Ave.
The facility has been operational for a few weeks, but officially held its opening on June 19.
Focused on providing chiropractic care and physical rehabilitation services, NRC has six locations sprinkled about the valley, but the expanded northwest site "is our flagship operation," owner Dr. Ian Yamane said.
Yamane opened his first clinic in 1994 at Cheyenne and Buffalo Drive before expanding with sites in Green Valley, North Las Vegas, the downtown area and the southwest valley.
"What makes us unique is that we really focus on wellness and preventative care," he said. "We offer additional services like nutritional support and counseling, as well as chiropractic care and physiotherapy. Typical chiropractic offices do a really good job, but you go in and get adjusted, maybe you get some ice on it, and that's about it. That's fine. We try to take a more broad look at the problem."
At the new center, Yamane and his staff will be able to take an even broader look and provide even more expanded services. The facility basically will be half NRC and half Valhalla Med Spa, which will offer advanced skin care and non-surgical cosmetic services, such as laser hair removal and Botox.
"Overall, it will be a good collaboration of services to take care of the whole person," said Keri Mossel, aesthetic nurse specialist and part of the three-person staff at the medical spa. "You've got the rehabilitation side, where they are dedicated to getting you feeling better, and on the med spa side, we're doing non-surgical, non-invasive procedures to get your skin looking great. We work well together, and we've already seen that, referring people back and forth. A lot of people are doing Botox and other services, and why not do it all in one place?"
Mossel sees a natural connection between physical rehabilitation and cosmetic services.
"It's not a matter of looking 20 years younger anymore, it's about looking as good as you feel," she said.
The decision to move the Buffalo-Cheyenne NRC facility into the larger site just east of U.S. Highway 95 was an easy one, Yamane said. "We needed more space, and we need to be right off the freeway," he said. "Cheyenne between Buffalo and the freeway is very congested because you have the hospital right there. It was more convenient for our (clients), and we needed to enlarge our facility to be able to expand the scope of our services."
With a one-stop health services facility in its stable, Yamane is hoping to make it a success and duplicate it elsewhere. "Eventually, that is the goal, to use this model at other locations," he said. "I think both our clients and new ones would like to take advantage of what we can offer now."
The combined facility is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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