Meet Dr. Scott Stachelek

Dr. Scott’s chiropractor was a former body builder who sat down and explained the chiropractic story to him. Following an assessment, he received his first adjustment and felt better immediately. However, just 20 minutes later, his back returned to the significant spasms. Encouraged by his 20 minutes of feeling better, Dr. Scott was adjusted the next day and then the next, steadily feeling better. Not wanting to interrupt his care over the weekend, he asked the chiropractor, “Whatever it takes, how can I get adjusted”. The chiropractor met him on both Saturday and Sunday and by Monday, he began to feel like a Marine again.

“I told my chiropractor, Dr. Mike, that I was going to go for a run. I wanted to see just how well I was healing and I wanted to test my personal theory on recovery compared to what my previous coaches and doctors had told me in the past.” Expecting to be told “No don’t exercise”, Dr. Scott was told that it would be a great idea to “go push your body and we’ll recheck your spine when you’re finished.” Completed elated that his chiropractor was more concerned about his performance than simply covering up his pain, Dr. Scott asked Dr. Mike to tell him more about Chiropractic and the correlation between a properly aligned back and his entire health.

Able to recover in time, he went overseas with the Marines deploying to the Middle East and Somalia. When he returned from his second deployment, he decided to leave the Marine Corps and become a chiropractor.

“I always believed that medicine was all about sickness and sick care. I always thought that if you did the right things, you could have great health, naturally.” He just didn’t realize that there was an entire profession based around the philosophy that health comes from within. Dr. Scott realized that health isn’t just about feeling great, but maximizing daily performance.

Just like his chiropractor, he believed that the body is intelligently designed and functions as a whole, rather than as a group of parts. “That began a whole new journey.” Making the decision, as recommended by his chiropractor, to attend Life University in Marietta, GA,.

Arriving at Life University with a passion to become a sports chiropractor, his wife’s pregnancy changed everything. Dr. Scott remembers making the birth plan with his wife, organizing a perfect delivery and expecting everything to go as planned.

In the birthing center, his wife had a prolonged and physically demanding labor, and at delivery their son swallowed fluid and went into emergency distress resulting in immediate transportation to the NICU. Transported to the NICU his son stabilized, however his oxygen level was stuck several percentage points below what it needed to be at such a critical time. Dr. Scott called his chiropractor to visit them in the hospital and Dr. Cheryl came into the NICU and adjusted his son. Then this happened.

“I remember hearing this unforgettable cry come from my son. Colin stopped screaming almost right away, looking calm and great. But right there in the NICU, the machine he was on just began ringing with alarm warnings. Not knowing what the heck was happening, we put him back in the incubator and waited for the nurses.”

The nurses did a great job assessing Colin and finally they decided to shut off the alarms and reboot the machine. His son was fine; actually he was way better than fine. The measurement of his oxygen went from 2% points below to slightly above normal so fast that the machine, sensing an error, sounded the alarm. The adjustment removed the disturbance from his nervous system and allowed Colin’s ‘normal’ to return to it’s default of health. The path of less oxygen being delivered throughout his system is blessedly a very scary unknown as Colin has grown up into an intelligent, athletic, thriving college man!