Dr. Schultz is our resident low back, hip, and sciatica specialist. He is the first low back and hip specialist in the midwest! This comes after 2 intense years of training and managing difficult cases with Dr. Nottoli and Dr. William Brady of Integrative Diagnosis®. There is a massive need for low back and hip specialists in conservative care. Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide and costs the healthcare system upwards of $100 billion/year. Dr. Schultz is here to break the cycle of endless cortisone injections, countless physical therapy rounds and adjustments every week.
We start with his background and journey through pain and learning. We discuss the state of healthcare for people suffering with musculoskeletal pain. Toward the end of the podcast, Dr. Schultz shares some excellent pearls for how people can ask the right questions to doctors so you have better results.

"I’ve been fortunate enough to help numerous patients who were suffering with low back or hip pain for years and had seen multiple doctors. All to no avail. They were frustrated. They were at the end of their road. That all changed once we took the time to completely and accurately diagnose their problem. Then we built a custom treatment plan to put them on the fast track to a better life." --Dr. Schultz

The Painful Pursuit--episode 2 w/ Dr. Seth Schultz

"Doing the wrong treatment well doesn't outweigh doing the right treatment poorly." Dr. Scharf

After serving as an associate in an office in Iowa City for over a year, chance led him to finding Integrative Diagnosis – the most advanced conservative care diagnosis and treatment system. Dr. Scharf was frustrated by the process of a regular chiropractic office.  Adjust the patient and let them go.  If they don’t get better, they need to be stretching more, or doing more exercise, or maybe need to purchase hundreds of dollars of supplements.  Sound familiar? The problem he had was that in traditional chiropractic offices there is never a real diagnosis that’s established and patients would routinely return to the office for temporary relief.  Stumbling upon the Integrative Diagnosis system he found what he was looking for.  A system that provides advanced diagnosis and the best way to treat each patient.  It does not blend with a traditional chiropractic office, which led him to open Thrive Spine and Sport in July of 2013. He is one of 3 instructors for Integrative Diagnosis in order to help teach other men and women from around the world.  He is excited to come to the office each day to help patients find relief from pain and to help those who have been failed by the traditional model of conservative care, and I’m excited to be introducing him to you.

2019 - 09 - 16 Ep. 3 w/ Dr. Cody Scharf

Dr Chris Stepien is the founder and clinic director of Barefoot Rehabilitation Clinic in Denville, NJ. He started his clinic in 2010. Dr Chris has quickly grown his clinic especially in the last 18 months, bringing on talented doctors to focus solely on certain regions of the body. This has proven to be more successful for the treating physician and the patients involved. His clinic focuses on helping patients that have had pain for longer than 6 months and have had no PERMANENT RELIEF with 3 or more providers. Dr Chris’ long history of physical pain and battling depression has made him one of the best pain doctors in the country.

Carl Nottoli, DC