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#396 Fixing the "Unfixable" Athlete: Non-Surgical Chronic Pain Solutions | Chris Stepien

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9586 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Dr. Chris Stepien — founder of Barefoot Rehabilitation Clinic (Denville, NJ) and developer of Adhesion Release Methods.
 
Dr. Chris specializes in helping chronic pain sufferers, especially 30–60 year olds who've had pain for 6+ months and have already seen multiple doctors or therapists without real relief. He's also training high-level manual therapists and clinicians to diagnose and treat adhesion and nerve-entrapment patterns so more people can finally get their lives back.
 
Instagram: @barefootrehab | @adhesionreleasemethods
YouTube: @drchrisstepienclips
LinkedIn: Dr. Christopher M. Stepien
 
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0:00.0

I talked to him on the phone console.

0:02.0

As he's talking, he's like, I'm gonna.

0:04.0

If you just stayed for a couple of weeks and gave me a real shot,

0:07.0

we can make this significantly better and probably save your life.

0:10.0

The adhesion is the most common condition in the musculoskelet system.

0:13.0

An EMG or NCV will catch a nerve that's damaged when it's like 90, 100% bad.

0:18.0

There's nothing catching it between 0% up to that 80 or 90%.

0:22.0

Okay, it's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

0:35.3

Welcome to Table Talk.

0:39.7

Okay, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk and I have Dr. Chris out here. We'll get more into your background and your story

0:45.6

and all this other kind of stuff here and second. What I want to jump off with is you just did

0:50.8

some work on me, which was in a video that we posted last week.

0:56.0

Neither of these are posted yet before, but we post that beforehand.

0:59.8

Then the podcast afterwards.

1:03.2

So with that, you know, you asked me some questions via email.

1:08.3

What were your expectations on what you thought I was going to physically be?

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.6

I didn't have much expectations.

1:17.6

You've had this shoulder pain since a little before 2000-ish or before, and your MRI from 2004

1:26.6

said severe degeneration in the Glenororehumor joint, the AC joint,

1:31.6

diffuse labrum degeneration, super spinaidus degeneration and tear.

1:36.0

You got neck degeneration, you got thoracic spine degeneration,

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