Summit: Where Our Standard Reaches Higher.
Decades of expertise. Three trusted legacies. Generations of patients. One Summit—united by a singular vision and uncompromising standard of care.
ABOUT SUMMIT
Ninety Years of Combined Practice. Four Clinics. One Name.
Allen County Family & Sports Chiropractic opened in southwest Fort Wayne in 1996. Elsewhere in Northern Indiana, two established practices were building histories of their own—each serving its community for nearly three decades.
In 2025, those practices came together as Summit Family & Sports Chiropractic.
Four clinics. Decades of experience across different doctors, patients, and communities. Now, one team—sharing what we know, learning from one another, and holding every location to the standard behind the Summit name.
Doctor. Coach. Still Under the Bar.
Dr. Michael Hartle has spent 30 years treating movement—and just as long studying it, coaching it, testing it, and living it.
He opened Allen County Family & Sports Chiropractic in 1996. Since then, his work has extended well beyond the treatment room: board-certified clinical nutritionist, Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician®, Active Release Techniques® provider since 1995, Master StrongFirst Instructor, and PhD candidate in exercise science. His doctoral research compares kettlebell training with walking for its effect on A1c in people with type 2 diabetes.
That combination tells you something important about the practice he built.
705 lb
COMPETITION SQUAT
20 yrs
USAPL SPORTS MEDICINE CHAIR
PhD(c)
EXERCISE SCIENCE
When you’ve spent a career studying what happens when the body is asked to move, recover, adapt, and carry load, getting someone out of pain is only part of the picture. You think about what happens next.
It’s one reason rehabilitation and strength have always belonged alongside hands-on care here—not as an afterthought, but as part of helping people return to what their lives ask of them.
Why Four Practices Chose One Future.
After thirty years, a practice becomes more than the name on the door. It becomes generations of families, familiar faces, and relationships built one visit at a time.
That mattered when Miskelly Chiropractic in Waynedale and Elkhart County Chiropractic in Goshen and Elkhart began thinking about what would come next.
Dr. Miskelly and Dr. Lewallen had spent decades earning the trust of their communities. The priority was making sure that trust would be respected long after their own time in practice.
The question was simple: Would the patient walking in on Monday still receive the kind of care they had come to expect?
Would they be listened to? Examined thoroughly? Given an honest recommendation based on what they actually needed?
Those were the same expectations that had guided Allen County Family & Sports Chiropractic since 1996.
That common ground made Summit possible. Three practices could come together under one name because the things that mattered most weren’t changing.
The name became Summit. The standard stayed.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Different Expertise. One Approach to Care.
A good healthcare team shouldn’t require you to connect all the dots yourself.
Our doctors, massage therapists, and rehabilitation professionals work alongside one another. They share observations, make referrals within the team when appropriate, and bring different perspectives to the same problem.
Not every patient needs every service.
That’s the point.
The goal isn’t to use everything we offer. It’s to use what makes sense for the person in front of us.
WHERE WE’RE GOING
Thirty Years In. Still Raising the Bar.
Longevity matters to us, but only if what we’ve learned makes the next decade better than the last.
We’re continuing to build Summit with intention: bringing exceptional people to the team, developing the next generation of hands-on practitioners, expanding what we can accomplish together, and ensuring that growth always strengthens the personal care our patients value.
Our path forward is clear: grow thoughtfully, invest in our people, and continue raising the standard of care—always with the patient at the center.