If you have been searching for PEMF therapy Kennewick and getting back page after page of national explainers, you have probably noticed what all of them leave out: what actually happens when you show up for an appointment here in the Tri-Cities. How you get in the door. Which piece of equipment your session uses. What you are doing while it runs. Those are local questions, and they only have answers if someone can point at the room.
At Spinal Fitness Health and Wellness Center, 214 E. Albany Ave, Building E101, Kennewick, WA 99336, pulsed electromagnetic field sessions are run with two different kinds of equipment: targeted loops placed on the body, and a whole-body mattress. Which one your appointment uses is the first practical decision to make, and it changes the shape of the visit. This page is about that setup and about how to book it.
Loops or the whole-body mattress: what the two options are
Those two words do most of the work, so it is worth being plain about what each one describes.
The whole-body mattress is the option that covers all of you at once rather than one area. You settle into a zero-gravity chair for it and stay put for the session. It asks nothing of you except to be still.
Loops are placed on the body, over one area rather than covering all of you. That is the option when the point of the session is one specific spot instead of everything at once. You are in the zero-gravity chair for this too, fully clothed, with the loops positioned on the area being worked.
Because both are on site here, loops-or-mattress is a real choice made about your particular session rather than a foregone conclusion set by whatever single unit happens to be in the building. Raise it when you call and it gets settled before you arrive, which is a better use of the time than working it out with your coat still on.
How a visit is arranged
Visits are by appointment. Call or text 509-670-9713 to arrange yours, including evenings and weekends. The phone is the front door here in the practical sense: it is how a time gets onto the calendar, and it is how the loops-or-mattress question gets answered ahead of the visit.
When you call, three questions are worth asking directly, because they are the ones people wish they had asked: whether the loops or the whole-body mattress suit what you have in mind, roughly where in the 10-to-20-minute range your session lands, and what the sequence looks like if you are planning to come back regularly. All three have specific answers here. They are simply not the sort of thing a national article can give you.
Training first, then a door code
Access here follows a specific order, and knowing it before your first call saves confusion. You complete your training first. Once your training is complete, you receive a door code. Monthly members have 24/7 facility access, and BioCharger NG access is included with monthly memberships.
Two things follow from that order. The first is that training is something you complete, not something you sit through once on the way to a code, so plan for it as its own commitment rather than a formality attached to a first session. The second is that a first visit is arranged in advance by phone or text. That is a large part of why the positioning line on the site reads More Than a Conventional Gym in Kennewick – the model is closer to an appointment than to swiping a card at a turnstile at eleven at night, at least until your training is behind you.
What the appointment itself is like
A PEMF session is a stationary appointment, and a short one: 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the area of the body being worked. You are seated in a zero-gravity chair, fully clothed, with either the loops placed on you or the whole-body mattress in use, and you stay put while the session runs. There is no exertion involved and nothing for you to operate, which makes it one of the quieter things on the schedule at the center. Once your training is complete the session is self-directed and you run it yourself.
You stay fully clothed, so wear something you can settle into a reclined chair in without fussing – the clothes you would wear to a stretching class are the right idea. If you have a question about the setup for the specific session you are booking, ask it on the phone when you book rather than guessing from a general article. That is what the number is for.
One practical note about scheduling: because appointments are arranged individually rather than dropped into open gym hours, the time you book is yours, and arriving on time for it matters more than it would at a facility you can wander into whenever the lights are on.
Where PEMF sits among everything else here
The center publishes its own figures: 300 happy clients, 2,000-plus sessions completed, 15-plus years of experience and 10-plus therapies offered. Those are the site’s own stated numbers, given as a description of scale rather than as evidence about any one modality. PEMF is a single entry on that list of therapies, and the others on it include Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in a 1.3 ATA mild chamber, the 7 Wave Full Body Light Panel with its seven bands of red and near-infrared light from 480 to 1060 nm, Brown’s Gas inhalation generated on site by electrolysis, hydrogen inhalation, whole-body vibration, HeartMath sessions, biofeedback, Rife frequency sessions, BioPhoton light sessions, the AM3 Bio-Photon Mat, pelvic magnetic core exercise, a 24/7 hot exercise room with near-infrared, and lab testing including Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.
The reason that list matters to a PEMF question is scheduling. If you are already coming in for something else, the loops-or-mattress conversation can happen in the same phone call rather than as a separate errand across town, and one appointment can be arranged around another.
The center is locally owned and was founded by Eileen Durfee, who has worked in this field since 2010 after overcoming significant challenges of her own, and who is a Certified Personal Trainer and the inventor of Spinal Fitness. The site describes the approach plainly as combining advanced therapies with holistic strategies, and prayer in the name of Jesus.
Booking from anywhere in the Tri-Cities
We serve Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, West Richland, Benton City and Walla Walla, and the drive is the main variable between them. The appointment model is identical wherever you are coming from, which is worth knowing if you are weighing an evening slot against a weekend one from the far side of the river.
To arrange a PEMF appointment, call or text 509-670-9713. The center is at 214 E. Albany Ave, Building E101, Kennewick, WA 99336, visits are by appointment, and evenings and weekends can be arranged. Bring the loops-or-mattress question with you to the call and it will be answered before you ever drive over.
Our PEMF therapy page sets out the loop, the paddles and the mattress side by side, with the screening rules.
This article is for educational purposes only and describes how sessions are arranged at Spinal Fitness Health and Wellness Center in Kennewick, Washington. This is a wellness service; anything medical belongs with your own licensed provider.
