SEBASTIAN CHIROPRACTIC

            The results speak for themselves…

Our goal is for you to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. If you are looking for a safe and natural way to heal your body and maintain your health, as your chiropractor, we can help you to do that.

 

 

INTERACTIVE SPINE EDUCATOR

 

MEET THE DOCTOR

Dr. Stepanek does things very differently than your conventional M.D. and Chiropractor.  He treats some of the hardest to treat conditions and loves it. He is not a symptom chaser, but gets to the cause of your disease and corrects that.

Dr. Stepanek feels that people with these conditions have been mismanaged and poorly treated with little long term effective results. He is a graduate of Life University School of Chiropractic.  He has been in private practice in Sebastian, Florida since 1999.

It is our job as your chiropractor to help you prevent health problems from occurring in your future. We will help you to recognize the areas where you are experiencing breakdown in your body.

For example, if your work requires heavy lifting or repetitive movement, we can discuss ways that you can prevent damage from these activities. Sports activities are also causes for injury. Leg pain relief and arm pain relief is often sought after by the avid golfer.

Dr. Stepanek feels that people with these conditions have been mismanaged and poorly treated with little long term effective results. He is a graduate of Life University School of Chiropractic.  He has been in private practice in Sebastian, Florida since 1999.

It is our job as your chiropractor to help you prevent health problems from occurring in your future. We will help you to recognize the areas where you are experiencing breakdown in your body. For example, if your work requires heavy lifting or repetitive movement, we can discuss ways that you can prevent damage from these activities. Sports activities are also causes for injury. Leg pain relief and arm pain relief is often sought after by the avid golfer.

We may give you some lower back exercises to strengthen your back. We know that diet, sleep, environment, exercise level, and heredity affect your health. We can advise you and recommend changes in your lifestyle that will affect those factors. We are your back and neck pain relief specialists and we take pride in serving you.

CONDITIONS TREATED

FIBROMYALGIA

 

BULGING OR HERNIATED DISCS

A disc is the soft tissue between the bones of the spine.  This tissue is a fibrous ligament.  The disc is not just floating in space between the bones.  The disc is attached to the bone above and below it by soft tissue fibers. The disc is a ligamentous, fibrous, cartilage.  Of all the anatomical structures in the spine, the disc is the most prone to injury.

When the disc is injured, it will do 4 things:

1) It will swell.

2) It will weaken.

3) It will bulge or herniate.

4) It will dehydrate and thin.

After all this happens the process will repeat, but this time with an even weaker more susceptible disc.  As this process happens again and again, symptoms may come and go causing the person to think the problem is gone.  Unfortunately the problem is there, but the body is just compensating giving a false sense of security.   This process can occur over and over for weeks or even years and the whole time the spinal structures are degenerating and becoming harder to repair.

The problem in all of these scenarios is the way that this disc dysfunction affects the structures around it.  When the disc swells, it causes the surrounding nerves to be squeezed and the surrounding muscles to spasm.  This causes a spinal shift and pain.  When the disc weakens it is much more likely to bulge or herniate causing direct nerve or spinal cord pressure that is unrelenting and disabling for a time.  When the disc dehydrates or thins, the holes in the spine where the nerves exit become too small and cause boney nerve pressure causing pains and dysfunctions in distant parts of the body such as arms, hands, legs and feet.

The discs in the spine are fully capable of healing when they are damaged.  Unfortunately, in most cases they don’t heal properly and there is a reason for this lack of proper healing.  The reason they don’t heal properly is gravity and the effects of gravity on the spinal structures.  You see in order for a person to have any rigidity to the spinal structures and to be able to sit or stand upright the spinal muscles must have tone and squeeze the spinal bones together.  This rigid, but flexible spine is the anchor for all other structures of the body to attach to to allow for upright posture and movement.

This blessing of gravity and resultant muscle tone can also be a curse for someone with a spinal disc injury.  This squeezing of muscle tone surrounding the joints and allowing for upright posture is also the reason that the injured disc cannot heal properly.  The squeezing keeps the bulged or herniated part from healing.  In order to heal a disc long term the effects of gravity on the muscles must be eliminated over a period of time.  This elimination of tone around the joint will allow the disc to reenter its normal confines and heal normally.

The technology exists to fix this long term and to decrease pain quickly.  I have this technology in my office.  This treatment is actually a combination of 2 treatment techniques and technologies.  One is the Magnesphere and the other is the DRX9000.

 

MIGRAINES AND CHRONIC HEADACHES
NECK AND BACK PAIN
SCIATICA
VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS

 

 

THERAPIES

MAGNESPHERE
DECOMPRESSION THERAPY
COLD LASER

How long does a session last?

Your initial sessions typically last for 60 minutes, after you’ve determined what kind of benefit the Device provides you can then adjust your session times to better fit your schedule.

How long does a patient have to be involved with these sessions?

This really depends upon your health condition and symptoms you’re trying to improve. Some conditions are chronic (sometimes they’ve been with you for many years) and therefore may take several weeks to determine if the sessions may help, some are not and patients may feel better very quickly. Like most natural methods of improving your health (e.g. eating healthier meals, or beginning a new workout regimen), the technology requires a level of commitment on your part to determine how much we can help you. Ultimately, you’ll be the best judge of how long and how often.

Are relaxation sessions covered by Medicare or Insurance?

No, the technology and services are forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and are therefore cash pay services that are not reimbursed. Magneceutical relaxation session costs, may however, qualify to be paid from your healthcare flexible spending account. Please check with your Healthcare provider and Tax preparer, for costs, tax, and payment information.

How do I know this works?

In general Energy based therapies (i.e. the application of electrical, electromagnetic fields, sound, heat, laser, or light to the human body) is a fast growing field in healthcare, generating billions in revenue over the last few years. There are many different FDA approved “energy based” technologies and well designed clinical studies that demonstrate unequivocally that your body responds not only to drugs or chemicals, but also to energy based modalities. We have studies in both animals and humans that suggests a potential biologic effect, with our electromagnetic fields.

In your case you will be the best judge as to what effect the relaxation sessions have on symptoms that are important to you (those typically associated with Chronic Stress such as stiffness, pain, inflammation, energy level, or sleep). Objectively, you may be able to see a change in the balance of your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) by using our iPhone app (HaloBeat) and a bluetooth heart rate monitor in conjunction with your Magnesphere therapy.

What is the Theory of Operation (or Mechanism)?

Based upon studies at the University of Oklahoma’s Heart Rhythm Institute involving our technology. Our low-level electromagnetic field appears to be stimulating the Vagus Nerve (which runs throughout the body), and bring about a change in the balance of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). The balancing act between the Sympathetic branch (“fight or flight”) and the Parasympathetic branch (“rest and digest”) of the ANS is measured by Heart Rate Variability (HRV) a biomarker for the ANS. An imbalance in the ANS can make the symptoms of disease or chronic conditions worse. HRV as monitored from an individual’s heartbeat, is a real-time indicator of both cardiovascular health and general well-being.

Does the technology treat diseases like Arthritis, Parkinson’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, etc?

No, the sessions enhance feelings of relaxation, and this allows us to address “chronic stress” which is thought to play a key role in many different disease states or conditions. Accordingly, there are a number of studies that support many different aspects of “health improvement” when stress is reduced.

To be clear… the Magnesphere DOES NOT diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Do you have different magnetic field strengths for different health conditions?

Research indicates that different tissues (i.e., muscle, bone, nerve) respond to different magnetic fields. Therefore the proprietary magnetic field strengths and protocols are changed to maximize the relaxation response for particular types of tissues. Finally, the Magnesphere system makes it easy for Healthcare Providers to match your Health Condition with the type of tissues involved, and select the appropriate magnetic field or protocol for you.

Should I try the relaxation sessions instead of using a drug that my doctor has recommended?

Absolutely not. The relaxation sessions are “complementary” to your healthcare provider’s prescribed treatments. Do not use us “instead” of your doctor’s recommendations, but “in addition to”. Please discuss the technology with your healthcare professional and make sure they are aware of and in agreement with your decision.

Is this technology safe?

The Magnesphere is classified under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation 21 CFR 890.5660. Under this product regulation the Magnesphere device is classified as a Class I medical device, exempt from 510(k) Premarket Submission. The FDA Product Code for the Magnesphere is ISA by the Physical Medicine Review Panel.

When Should Magneceutical relaxation sessions not be used?

Magneceutical therapy relaxation sessions should not be administered to Patients with the following Health Conditions:

Implanted electrical stimulators in the Brain
Chronic Atrial Fibrillation (Poorly Controlled)
Epilepsy
CHF (Congestive Heart Failure)
High Blood Pressure (Poorly Controlled)
What makes this device different from magnets in bracelets, necklaces, or mattresses?

The Magnesphere is very different from every other magnet or magnetic system in use today. The key differences are that it provides:

A “whole body” immersion into a uniform electromagnetic field (EMF). It is therefore able to provide a specific field strength over the entire body.

In contrast most other systems are treating only one portion of the body, and are doing so with a field that is not uniform.

A Cloud-based therapeutic that is also a learning system, so that as future research provides more information, improvements and enhancements will automatically be provided.
Finally, with over 100 protocols, the electromagnetic fields (EMF) are specifically tuned for a particular types of tissues that play a role in your health profile. This allows us a much greater chance of achieving a relaxation response and improving your symptoms.

Why should I try this?

If you are looking to improve your current health and well being, then like most decisions in life, it is a balance of the potential Risk versus the Reward.

The relaxation sessions involve no drugs, no surgery, and no pain,

so the potential Risk is that you spend a little time and money and nothing happens, but
the potential Reward is that you improve your HEALTH and Quality of Life!
We can’t think of a better reason to give the Magnesphere a try!

 

I am a spinal disc injury expert.  I was hoping to write a brief post that may help to inform people about the misconceptions about disc bulges, disc herniations, related spinal stenosis, nerve pressure and pain.  Most people have been told that disc herniations need surgery or pain management medications or shots in the spine.  This is simply not true.  Discs of the spine are living tissue and they can heal.  The reason why they do not heal on their own is gravity.  Yes that is true, the thing that keeps our spinal muscles toned and healthy is also the thing that keeps the discs from healing without any intervention.  The discs are the soft fibrocartilage that resides between the vertebral bodies in the spine.  A spinal joint is made of two vertebrae and one intervertebral disc between the two vertebrae.  This joint structure is held together by muscles and ligaments.  It is these multiple joints that make up the structural part of the spine.  Gravity keeps the muscles of the spinal joints holding a certain tone in order to keep our spines upright and gives us good posture.  Without gravity our spinal muscles would weaken and become very dysfunctional and we could not have normal healthy posture.  This gravity that keeps us healthy by holding muscles in a certain tone is also the reason why our discs cannot heal.  With that muscle tone comes joint compression.  Joint compression is fine when the soft tissues of the spine(discs) are healthy.  When there is disc injury the compression or muscle tone doesn’t allow for normal healing.  These discs can only heal in a negative pressure.  Imagine this, you have a cut on your arm and keep aggravating it by rubbing it, scratching it, picking at it, just plain irritating it all the time.  It won’t heal properly.  The disc in the spine is the same.  With muscle tone and compression comes constant irritation.  The disc can never heal.  What most people don’t know is that there is equipment now (DRX9000) that achieves decompression at the injured disc and joint space without drugs or surgery.  This decompression over a series of treatments allows the disc to heal much more normally.  This gives a long term correction of the problem.

Hours

Monday: 9AM-12PM     1PM-3PM

Tuesday: 9AM-12PM     1PM-3PM

Wednesday: 9AM-12PM

Thursday: 9AM-12PM     3PM-5:30PM

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: CLOSED

Call (772) 388-1148 to schedule an appointment.

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