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5 Steps to Smoother Back-to-School Transitions for Kid with ADHD + SPD
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

5 Steps to Smoother Back-to-School Transitions for Kid with ADHD + SPD

As summer winds down and the back-to-school season looms on the horizon, we understand the unique mixture of hope and apprehension you might be feeling, especially if your child has ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), or anxiety. You know better than anyone that your child is creative, caring, and full of potential. But you also know that the structured environment, social pressures, and academic challenges of school can bring stress to your entire family.

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How do I know if my child struggles with Sensory Processing Disorder?
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

How do I know if my child struggles with Sensory Processing Disorder?

Summer is a time for fun, relaxation, and enjoying various events like going to the beach, attending parades and carnivals, and going on vacation. However, for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), this season can be full of stress and difficulties. Many families first recognize the signs of sensory issues in their children during this time, noticing that they are easily overwhelmed in large crowds, struggle with loud noises, have trouble with transitions, and find it challenging to stay calm and regulated in the heat.

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How Babies Get Colic + What You Can Do About It
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

How Babies Get Colic + What You Can Do About It

If your baby is struggling with colic and you’re desperate for answers and relief from the constant crying and sleepless nights, this is for you! If your gut is telling you that it’s not normal that your baby is constantly crying, uncomfortable, arching their back, and cranking their neck to try and find some relief - keep reading.

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Here’s Why You’re Not Healing
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

Here’s Why You’re Not Healing

As a parent, there's nothing more heartbreaking than watching your child suffer from chronic health issues. You've tried every diet change, supplement, and therapy out there, but nothing seems to provide a lasting solution. Your child struggles with inflammation, gut problems, sensory overload, and mood swings, and you feel like you're putting all the pieces together on your own. It's exhausting, frustrating, and emotionally draining.

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Tired Of Endless Medications, Diet Changes, And Supplements For Inflammation? There May Be More Going On…
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

Tired Of Endless Medications, Diet Changes, And Supplements For Inflammation? There May Be More Going On…

As parents, we always want the best for our children's health. If your child struggles with chronic illnesses, you may have turned to traditional medical approaches or even explored biomedical interventions. However, there may be a hidden cause of inflammation that is often overlooked: vagus nerve dysfunction and nervous system dysregulation.

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Experience Miracles with Chiropractic
Kayla Murphy Kayla Murphy

Experience Miracles with Chiropractic

As a parent, there's nothing more heart-wrenching than watching your child struggle with chronic neurological issues like Autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Anxiety, and Epilepsy. The search for answers and explanations can be frustrating and often leaves you feeling hopeless, especially when the traditional medical system fails to provide the support and solutions you desperately need.

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Navigating Anxiety: The Drug-Free Approach in the Pharmaceutical Age
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Navigating Anxiety: The Drug-Free Approach in the Pharmaceutical Age

As a parent, watching your child struggle with anxiety can be an overwhelming and heartbreaking experience. You may feel helpless, especially when traditional medical approaches often resort to medication as the first line of treatment. However, at our practice, we want you to know that there is another way – a drug-free, holistic approach that focuses on the root cause of your child's anxiety: the nervous system.

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Hope for Developmental Delays: Finding Success Outside Standard Therapies
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Hope for Developmental Delays: Finding Success Outside Standard Therapies

As a parent, it's natural to feel concerned and confused when your child experiences gross motor delays. You may have tried everything from countless physical therapy and occupational therapy sessions to diligently following through with home exercises, only to see little to no progress. But what if we told you that the root cause of your child's challenges might be something that's often overlooked by traditional pediatric therapies? The real issue behind gross motor delays in kids goes way beyond low muscle tone and a weak core.

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Chiropractic Care For Stressed Out + Worn Out Dads
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Chiropractic Care For Stressed Out + Worn Out Dads

In today’s crazy world, the average dad’s nervous system is running on dial up internet while trying to keep up with a 5G fast-paced life. It’s just not sustainable. This is where Neurologically-Focused Chiropractic Care comes in, and serves as the greatest health hack of all time!

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Tackling Nervous System Dysregulation for Lasting Health
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Tackling Nervous System Dysregulation for Lasting Health

If you are a parent of a child who is struggling with chronic health issues, such as digestive problems, sleep disturbances, anxiety, or intense emotions, you’re likely familiar with the frustration of trying numerous remedies without success.  Despite taking your child to see specialists, trying medications, and making lifestyle changes, you’re left without answers. What if we told you that the key to unlocking these answers lies within the nervous system? 

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Kick the Sick: Unlocking Your Child's Natural Resilience
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Kick the Sick: Unlocking Your Child's Natural Resilience

While seasons are changing, as a parent you may find yourself in a frustrating cycle - your kids are constantly battling colds, coughs, congestion, and other illnesses. You try over-the-counter medications, visit pediatricians, and get prescribed stronger antibiotics, but the cycle continues. What you may not realize is that shutting down symptoms with medications often weakens the body's resilience long-term. 

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Kids Don’t “Grow Out Of It”
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Kids Don’t “Grow Out Of It”

Parents, this information may leave you a bit frustrated or upset, but we need to address a problem that's been going on for far too long. Standard pediatricians have been telling parents that certain conditions are just a part of childhood and that their children will grow out of them. However, this is not the case.

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Eat, Sleep, Poop
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Eat, Sleep, Poop

From our experiences as both a parents and healthcare providers, we've learned that the little things, such as eating, sleeping, and pooping struggles, can be tied to more significant challenges like sensory challenges and behavior troubles.

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Subluxation: The Source of Dysfunction
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Subluxation: The Source of Dysfunction

Subluxation may be an unfamiliar for many, but it can make a significant difference in your child's health. As parents, understanding what this issue is and how it impacts our children's health is absolutely crucial. Because once you understand subluxation, you will be all in trying to find a way to get rid of it.

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Why is Vagus Nerve Health So Important For Our Kids?
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Why is Vagus Nerve Health So Important For Our Kids?

Did you know the vagus nerve is also very important for our kid's development, behavior, and sensory comfort? As pediatric chiropractors, we would be remiss if we didn't talk about the vagus nerve and how it can help you and your kiddos, because it really is the answer to so many of our health challenges!

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ADHD + Drug-Free Options
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ADHD + Drug-Free Options

Trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors, and being overly active… all symptoms that so commonly get tested and bucketed into the diagnosis of ADHD.

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What’s The Deal With Scans?
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What’s The Deal With Scans?

While traditional medicine relies primarily on symptoms and looks for obvious pathology on standard exams like blood work, MRIs, and EEGs, we use an incredible piece of technology called the INSiGHT Scans that accurately assesses the health and function of the Central Nervous System. 

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