South Beach Pain & Injury Center

Not just your regular DC.
I was very skeptical about obtaining chiropractic care for my neck, hip, and back pain. I had been to numerous chiropractors over the years and had only received marginal results with their manual manipulation techniques.
Dr. Bartz was recommended to me over a long period of time before I made an appointment to see him. The reasons behind my decision to open my mind and finally try him were two fold; crippling pain, and the much acclaimed post graduate work he uses in his practice called Active Release Therapy.
To make a long story short, my pain has been reduced by 70% and my range of motion increased by approximately 50% after only three visits. I am beyond stoked with my progress.
Dr. Bartz’s expertise, professionalism, and comprehensive approach to achieving and maintaining optimal health is cutting edge.
Marsha Prentice

I’ve been treating with Dr. Bartz for 4 years. As a professional dancer I’m constantly getting injured during traing sessions or competitions. In 2009 I suffered a serious leg injury that made walking and dancing very painful. After seeing several chiropractors I found Dr. Bartz. 4 offices visits later I was walking and dancing pain free! I’ve been treating with Dr. Bartz since that time and feel so fortunate to have such great medical treatment. Having the confidence to not worry about getting injured just makes our performance that much better. Thank you Dr. Bartz!
2015 UCWCD Masters Showcase World Champion.

Continues to provide stellar care and goes above and beyond with ways to make your body work at it’s best. The before and after difference for even just one session is amazing!

Our 3 year old twisted her neck while rocking in her crib. She couldn’t stop shaking or crying and it was after 6pm on a week night. We stopped by a sports therapy place, they couldn’t help and directed us to a local chiropractor, who ended up being closed. We came across the number for South Beach Pain & Injury Center and called. Dr. Steven Bartz was treating his last patient for the day but offered to stay a few minutes late to try and help us out. Our daughter was very frightened and hesitant to let a stranger touch her head and neck. Dr. Steven was very patient while we tried to calm her down. His dog was a great distraction but not quite enough. After 30 minutes of effort, she finally let him make a partial adjustment which was enough to stop her from crying and want to start playing with his dog. On our way out, Dr. Steven told us that payment would not be necessary as he didn’t feel he’d given her the adjustment she needed. It’s been a week now and she’s back to normal. These are the kinds of stories we want to hear about Dr.‘s so my wife and I highly recommend Dr. Steven Bartz. Next time I have any type of sports injury or muscle pain, I will definitely make an appointment with Dr. Steven.

Dr. Bartz is one of the best chiropractors in the business. He incorporates a very effective treatment into his practice called active release. It is a technique that involves a very technical type of deep tissue massage. It is extremely effective for athletes. I am a triathlete and have found Dr. Bartz to be one of the finest active release practioners out there. If you are an athlete, he is your go to guy.

I went in for work on my Plantar Fasciitus which Dr. Bartz was able to help releave in 2 visits amazingly enough! But I have so many other issues like tight neck and pain in neck, tight IT Band and various other problems which Dr. Bartz is in the process of working on. I am getting close to full range of motion in my neck and the pain is subsiding, headaches are gone. We just started on the Hips and IT Band stuff, but so far I am excited that I might have a handle on these issues soon with the help of Dr. Bartz.

I don’t want to seem like a complete basher saying this, but hippies really just annoy me. They will believe anything that is baseless in fact and then when given some pretty serious facts, these get discarded as manipulations by the man, man, or some other conspiracy theory. This is America and you can believe what you want to believe, but c’mon.
When people start to talk about «life force» and how «the body’s own natural intelligence heals itself, we just take out the nerve interference» you have to ask yourself a few questions like: have you ever seen «life force» apart from a blue Alec Guiness ghost in the Star Wars films? Or, if the nerves are busy interfering with the body they are supposed to serve, just how intelligent is that whole system? Bottom line is: there are sprains, strains, and worse injuries and they all basically hurt. If a chiropractor can through crunchy stretching make the aches go away, like a manual aspirin tablet, I am all for it.
When I went in, I was told not to focus on the pain of my acute low back, because «recovery signs» included pain. W-​w-​what? OK, so I won’t focus on it, but I won’t ignore it either. Not good enough, apparently. I was told that healing and health is more important than being pain-​free. Red flag. First, I am not suffering from diabetes or cancer, I have a hot low back. If I can’t get out of bed or sail a boat, that just sucks. If there were no pain, I could do those things and go get healthy, but I am not at all concerned about my health six days/​weeks/​months hence. Get me out of pain now, then we’ll talk. Second, if lowering your expectations is that important to patient care, I see no reason not to flag that as anything short of scary.
There were more injury symptoms after 3 «adjustments» with non-​relenting pain. I don’t care if it is from «active release» or a hand-​held «quacktivator» I personally believe too much focus was on some new-​agey philosophy than on diagnosis and applying pain relief care.

It has taken me awhile to write this review, because I really wanted to be as thorough as possible.
It is VERY difficult to find a chiropractor you trust. After having a couple of mediocre practitioners I finally decided to only choose another chiropractor by recommendation from someone I trusted. A fellow personal trainer (who has a degree in kinesiology) after seeing me in pain one time too many from continued training with an injury sent me to Dr. Bartz.
To give you enough background on me so that you can take even more from my recommendation, I am a personal trainer and fitness instructor, and I primarily teach private pilates and yoga. I have 4 personal training certifications, a yoga and pilates certification, and 3 other group fitness certifications. I worked for several physical therapists for about 2 years doing both traditional rehab and pilates based rehab. I work at a hospital as a birth assistant (Doula) and I am currently finishing my science pre-​reqs so that I can apply to medical school. I know science well enough to be dangerous, and I know doctors well enough to know how good they are. Dr. Bartz is one of the best.
The first thing he did was a scan of my spine. And in the middle of it, he said something miraculous. He said «I can tell you teach yoga and pilates, because your spine looks great» What?! I have had chiropractors tell me for years all of the problems I had and how I would need continuous care (I never believed them, because I know my body pretty well)…and FINALLY someone is telling me my spine looks good?! I immediately trusted him even more, because I feel like there are many DCs out there who will amp up any issues you have so that they can create a lifelong patient.
My main issue was severe tendonitis in my hand, which had actually started in my shoulder and traveled down. The shoulder injury took me almost a year to re-​hab and was still giving me problems. Not only did he fix the hand; he got the shoulder to a level function that I hadn’t experienced in 2 years (back to doing handstands in my yoga practice).
In addition to doing regular adjustments like most chiropractors, Dr. Bartz also practices a technique called Active Release Technique (ART). He does deep myofascial release while you go through active range of motion (sort of like deep tissue massage while you move). So for muscle and tendon injuries or problems (especially from repetitive stress or sports injury) this technique is great. As someone who abuses her body at work and play, treatment from Dr. Bartz for the last 5 months has changed my life.
The acute injury I had required several sessions, and as my pain lessened, he recommended I space out the visits more and more. I like that he is honest and up front with how much treatment he thinks you will need, and the ultimate goal is always to get you by with as little treatment as possible. Not only does he know more anatomically about what causes pain in certain areas more than anyone I’ve ever met, he is also open to researching things he has not seen before to try to discover the problem. He is very well educated and well read and works hard to make sure that his patients are pain free.
After fixing my shoulder and hand and being on maintenance (about once a month to once every 6 weeks) I hurt my hip while figure skating, and AGAIN he got me out of pain very quickly.
If you hate harsh manual adjustments, he also will adjust with a little clicker device (shame on me for not knowing what it is called, but it is awesome) and I prefer this method because it is much less extreme.
Needless to say, everyone who comes to me in pain (which is a surprisingly large amount of people in my line of work) I recommend to Dr. Bartz. He specializes in athletic injury, spots medicine, performance nutrition, ART, and cold laser therapy. Check him out if you’re looking for a really great health care practitioner.