01/30/2026
Raise your hand if you have a kiddo who... 🙋♀️
✔️ moves at the speed of sound all day every day
✔️ goes zero to one hundred and seems to have extreme reactions to every scenario
✔️ seems disconnected because his or her brain is always jumping to the next “thing”
In chiropractic, we say these kids are "all gas & no brakes”! When our body isn’t adapting to stress as it should, our nervous system shifts into what’s called sympathetic dominance. That fancy phrase means that your body is stuck in fight or flight AKA stress mode.
Our bodies are crazy smart and they love this little thing called balance. Balance = comfortability.
So, to balance out a brain that’s going 10000 miles per hour, we have 2 options:
1️⃣ Speed up your environment!
Depending on your kid, this can look like many different things. We have the kids who are crazy fidgety and can’t stop moving, the kids who can’t stop talking, or the sensory kids who constantly seek any type of sensory input- whether it be movement, noise, or tactile input.
2️⃣ Slow down your brain!
Enter chiropractic! Our job is to pump the brakes! Through specific adjustments, we’re able to stimulate that parasympathetic nervous system and allow that brain to slow down, process what’s in front of it, and integrate that information at more of an appropriate speed!
Pretty cool stuff, right!? 😉
