Dr. Jeffery E. Stickel, D.C.
Born: 11/25/1969, Des Moines, IA - I grew up in Pleasant Hill and went to East High School. I graduated in 1988. My mom, Ronda is right here at adio as our massage therapist and Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner. My dad, Richard passed away with cancer in 1990 at the age of 43. While he was fighting for his health I was constantly looking for the cause of cancer. I had heard of Chiropractic and its healing power so I switched from a journalism major to Chiropractic! If someone had told my dad what health was earlier he would still be alive today! HEALTH is when you are HEALING and FUNCTIONING at 100%. Chiropractic ensures that your nervous system has NO INTERFERENCE and thus OPTIMAL HEALING and you can fight cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and all the other things Americans are dying from today.
I graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in February of 1996 and started Stickel Chiropractic on Ingersoll in Des Moines in March of 1996. The clinic has been on Ingersoll ever since, but I changed the name in 2009 to adio, which stands for ABOVE DOWN INSIDE OUT--this is how your body heals!! adio chiropractic resides in the new adio building at 2925 Ingersoll on the 2nd floor.
While I was at Palmer in Davenport I met a beautiful person named Heather Hatten and we got married in November of 1999. She is a very inspiring artist and interior designer! She and her partner, Nickole Modglin have studio 3 on the 3rd floor of the adio building. We have two amazing kids--Sunne and Shea. They are very active in baseball, softball, dance, basketball, tennis, swimming and art.
I am very blessed with the best staff in Lisa, Lindsay and Amy. Our mission is to CHANGE and SAVE as many lives as God sends us! We are Maximized Living Chiropractors and are on a WORLDWIDE MISSION to change the way people look at their health. In the U.S. health is not at the top of our value list. As SOON as you lose your health, it becomes your number one value. We cannot wait for this! HEALTH needs to be tied with GOD and FAMILY as your number one values. When you become a patient at adio, we do our VERY BEST to get you COMMITTED to OPTIMAL HEALTH!!!
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Dr. John H. Ensign, D.C., M.S.
Education:
2007-Doctorate of Chiropractic, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, IA
1994-Masters of Science, Microbiology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
1992-Bachelor of Science, Biology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
1990-Associate of Science, Business Administration, Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL
Family:
God has blessed me with a beautiful, healthy family. My wife, Mary has such a strong, loving spirit; people always tell me I married an angel, and I agree. We have two daughters, Lilian and Emma who are such a blessing and are polar opposite of each other. They do have three things in common though; they are very beautiful, smart and love music. They get their beauty and smarts from their mother and their music interest from both of us as my dad was a classically trained clarinetist/ saxophonist and Mary’s grandmother played the piano. Between swimming, cheerleading and softball they enjoy singing songs.
This Practice:
The motto in our office is “Keeping Families Healthy”. Knowing that God created the human body to heal itself, our patient’s follow His intended path of above down inside out healing that begins with the brain and spinal cord. Every cell in your body needs power and input from your brain to function and heal normally. Utilizing corrective chiropractic care, proper nutritional advice, detoxification, weight loss/ exercise and stress management, we facilitate the healing process so that all family members from infants to the elderly can live healthy, happy, drug-free lives just as God intended. It is about knowing that no matter what sickness or disease you or your children come across, those problems can be prevented or helped by living a Maximized Living lifestyle and receiving cutting edge, corrective chiropractic care. It is your choice. You can choose to live healthy and happy or sick and diseased. You can choose life or death. Choose LIFE!!
Why I Became A Chiropractor:
I suffered with frequent migraine headaches, constant pain in my neck that radiated into my arm and debilitating low back pain. My wife also suffered with chronic stomach pain since childhood that prevented her from eating most foods. Her stomach got so bad she had surgery, but that did not help. After living a life of pain killers and surgery our health just got worse and worse. Based on the recommendation of a friend I went to see a chiropractor for my headaches and back pain. The results were dramatic. I no longer had headaches, neck and back pain and have never needed drugs for pain since. Eventually, I convinced my wife to go see the chiropractor even though she had no back pain and within six months her stomach pain was resolved and she can now eat whatever she wants. When my oldest daughter was born she was a very cranky baby. As she got older we noticed her behavior to be different from the other kids in the family. She seemed agitated or “wound up” all of the time and she was frequently suffering from ear aches, for which we gave her antibiotics. At first, I was scared to have our chiropractor adjust her because she was so young, but after getting fully informed our 16 month old daughter received her first chiropractic adjustment and we watched her behavior change right before our eyes. In addition, she has never suffered from and ear ache since. Immediately, I knew the Lord was calling me to be a chiropractor, so I resigned my job the following week and went back to chiropractic school. Because of my own experience in life the Lord has placed on my heart a deep compassion for suffering patients and a zealous determination to deliver them from the grips of pain, disease and the medical merry-go-round into a lifestyle of building health in order that we may fulfill God’s purpose in our lives until the day we die.
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Dr. Sherry Christensen, D.C.
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Dr. Christian Abrams, D.C.
I am from the great city of Fort Dodge, Iowa. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister, and I am the youngest. My parents and siblings all still live in Fort Dodge. After graduating from Fort Dodge Senior High, I went to Iowa Central Community College where I received by Associate of Arts degree. I then moved to Davenport, IA to begin my Chiropractic career at Palmer College of Chiropractic. I started working on my bachelor’s degree at Palmer and finished up online from Excelsior College in New York. I graduated from the Doctor of Chiropractic program with cum laude honors in June 2011.
I had the privilege to go on a mission abroad trip to Ilheus, Brazil during my last year at Palmer. It was a very humbling experience to see some of the health conditions that some of the people suffer with day in and day out. It was great to be able to help thousands of people get some relief from their symptoms, and also learn about their culture.
Everybody is born with an Innate (inborn) intelligence that is able to coordinate and defend the body from foreign entities, providing that the flow of energy is functioning at 100%. We will thoroughly examine your spine and nervous system and look for “subluxations” in the spine, that may or may not be attributing to symptoms, and remove the inference and allow the body to heal and live abundantly. Subluxations “rob” you of maximum expression of life, we are here to help.