About Dr. Leonard Hayes, Chesterfield chiropractor
Long visits, careful examination, and a whole body approach to the problems that other care could not settle.
Most people who find their way to this office have already been somewhere else. They have been adjusted, injected, scanned, and told to manage it. What they have usually not had is an hour of someone's undivided attention and an examination thorough enough to explain why the problem keeps coming back.
That is the practice Dr. Leonard Hayes built. Bonesetters is a critical care chiropractic office in Chesterfield, Missouri, focused on disc injuries, peripheral and diabetic neuropathy, and the complicated cases that do not fit a standard treatment plan. The guiding idea is simple enough to put on the wall: we address the cause, not the symptom.
How he practices
Dr. Hayes treats the body as a connected system rather than a set of separate complaints. A knee that will not settle may be a hip problem. Hand numbness may start in the neck. Chasing the painful spot alone tends to produce short relief and a return visit, so the examination comes first and the treatment plan follows from what it finds.
In practice that means visits here run long. Nothing is rushed, and no stone is left unturned. It also means the office carries a deeper bench of tools than most: nine adjusting techniques from firm and specific to feather light, a floor of clinical technology including spinal decompression, Class IV cold laser, and electroanalgesia, plus hands-on bodywork. The point of that range is not novelty. It is being able to match the treatment to the patient instead of the other way around.
Training and recognition
Dr. Hayes trained under Dr. Patrick Montgomery, a widely respected figure in the chiropractic profession both locally and nationally. He has since gained national recognition for his work with disc disorders, neuropathies, and autoimmune conditions, and in 2024 he was named one of the top specialists in the United States for spinal decompression and neuropathy symptom treatment.
What your first visit looks like
Every new patient gets a full sixty minute examination before any treatment plan is written. That includes your history, a neurological evaluation, physical and orthopedic testing, a review of any imaging you bring, and your first adjustment. Patients regularly tell us it is the most complete evaluation they have ever had, which says more about how rushed most visits have become than about anything unusual here.
You leave that visit knowing what is actually wrong and what addressing it will take, including the number of visits and the cost. If Dr. Hayes does not believe he can help your case, he will tell you that instead of selling you a plan.
A note on care for families. Dr. Hayes treats patients at every stage of life, from infants to seniors, and the office is set up for it. Gentle instrument and light-touch techniques mean a child, an expecting mother, or a ninety year old can all be adjusted comfortably. His own family's experience with prenatal chiropractic is part of why Webster prenatal care is offered here.
The team
Yevgeniy Kapusterynsky is the office's stretch therapist, with a background in Eastern European bodywork. He works on mobility, flexibility, posture, and movement quality, using hands-on technique and guided stretching to help patients move better and hold their corrections longer. His stretch therapy and European bodywork sessions can stand alone or run alongside a chiropractic plan.
The office
Bonesetters sits in Suite 105 on Olive Boulevard in Chesterfield, serving patients from Ballwin, Creve Coeur, Ladue, Town and Country, Des Peres, and across St. Louis West County. The office runs by appointment only, which is deliberate: it is what makes the long visits possible.
Bring us the case nobody could solve.
That is the work this office was built for. Book the examination and let's find out what is actually going on.