Dr. Kelsey Dobesh, DC, ATC, MS

12/03/2025

Our Flux shoes are 💥 POPULAR. 💥
And there's good reason for that!

Here's why these are different:
1. Toe box that allows the toes to BE FREE and move independently.

The shoe is shaped like a foot, not a shoe. It allows the foot to be a foot. It seems like such a simple concept, but it's been left out of so many manufacturing processes!

2. The sensory insoles stimulate the nerves of the feet.
We've got over 💥200,000💥 nerve endings on the bottom of EACH FOOT. These nerves do many things:
➡️➡️ Communicate with the brain where the foot is! This is a big deal for improving balance! 🫶
➡️➡️ Strengthen the muscles of the feet!
▶️A question we get often: are these good for flat feet? Or do they have arch supports?

Here's the reality that the big box shoe companies don't want you to know...

Your arches 💥ARE MUSCLES. 💥 We aren't concerned with what your foot looks like, but rather... How it functions.
Can these muscles engage to support and lock the foot when you walk, stand, squat, etc.?

The beautiful thing about the Flux shoes is that they help strengthen your feet by simply wearing them!!

(If you have questions about your foot issues, schedule an appointment with us! )

And one of the coolest parts about these shoes?
Dobesh Chiropractic is 💥1 in 10💥 retail stores IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY for Flux shoes. They are primarily an online store, but Mitchell, South Dakota has a location. ❤️ So cool.

We know they can do online sales and prices that we cannot match (we don't have the ability to change our costs to buy the shoes), but please know that when you purchase these in our clinic you are supporting your local community through LOTS of ways:
1. Sales tax dollars for our schools
2. Donations to support our local school and sporting teams
3. Local Nonprofit benefits
4. Radio station and other advertisement we use
This trickles into the entire community...
5. Last but not least, a small business of 3 employeess. ❤️

We are grateful for you, Mitchell.
And we know you'll love the Flux shoes if you haven't tried them yet!🫶

11/29/2025

💥Don't let your baby skip crawling 💥

I know you might think it's cute because it makes it look as if your baby is "advanced," but please hear me out on this!

Crawling is imperative to brain development.

It's vitally important for the development of the hip and the shoulders, but their brain needs this activity too.

Here's why:
1. This motion of opposite arm and opposite leg movement, repeatedly, activates both hemispheres of the brain through the structure called the corpus callosum.
➡️ This builds communication between the two sides of the brain that will improve your baby's ability to:
▶️ Read.
Yes, reading. Reading is a brain activity that has to communicate both sides of the brain together.
▶️ Writing.
Writing occurs in a patterned order from left to right. This skill started with crawling!

2. The visual system and the ability to track objects and shift their gaze from near to far starts with crawling!
▶️ This is an activity of the brain! The eyes are extensions of the brain.

3. Crawling develops body positioning, also known as proprioception, and helps them determine an internal map of where their body is in space. We need to encourage them, to crawl on different textures and services, obviously monitoring them is important.
Getting them to crawl in grass, on carpet, on hardwood floors, on stairs, etc is all important to helping them to develop their balance and posture as well as joint stability. This also helps them develop their vestibular, or balance system.

4. Their vestibular system, or inner ear and balance, is directly related to crawling! Because their head is constantly moving, this stimulate the inner ear to help improve:
▶️Balance
▶️Coordination
▶️ Attention
▶️Emotional regulation

There are plenty of more reasons to keep those babies crawling as long as possible too!

If you see your baby kick their leg out to the side or try to maneuver around their pelvis/leg, get them to a chiropractor!
Gentle adjustments can be helpful to allow those hips and pelvis to move with ease so they continue crawling!❤️

11/28/2025

Our favorite Red Light Therapy products has an 💥 awesome sale! 💥

Use the code kelseyd25 when you apply at the checkout! 🫶

Scan the QR code for the direct link to the sale!

My personal favorite products:
➡️ The wrap! So versatile and easy to put anywhere.

I'm eyeing the face mask for home use! ❤️

If you struggle with migraines and headaches, consider the head wrap!

Happy shopping! ❤️

11/27/2025

Stock up on Fullscripts 🌟SALE🌟 for the holidays!

They only do this a few times a year!

Here is the link to save additional money off of their holiday sale! ❤️

Stock up on your essentials!

11/25/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️

11/25/2025

Ladies, I've seen this so much.

Society and cultures have hijacked your brain and self-worth and you've been chasing "skinny, thin, smaller," YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.

Hear me out, pleaseeeeeee!!!

When you've spent a lifetime of cutting calories drastically, only doing high intensity cardio or long distance cardio as a method of exercise, to BE SO MAD AT WHAT YOUR BODY LOOKS LIKE.

But here's the thing: if you've never actually built muscle mass to begin with:
➡️ You don't have the muscle mass (aka: metabolism) to burn stored fat tissue at rest
➡️ You basically are asking to be "skinny fat," which is a term to describe a thin, non muscular human
➡️ ➡️ You STILL HAVE METABOLIC dysfunction and cardiovascular risk factors
➡️ You're stressing your hormones SO MUCH. And let me tell you, when you've created such metabolic and hormonal dysfunction, it doesn't get better on its own. It gets worse.

So if you've been doing what you did in your early 20s, and it's not working.....

Please stop.

Schedule a Functional Medicine Consultation so we can create an actual plan for you, not a guessing game of doing things you've already done. 😏

11/21/2025

When we are training our nervous system to become more stress resilient (notice how I didn't say stress management), we can't do it asleep.

Is it a habit or routine for you to fall asleep anytime you feel frustrated, irritated, etc?

Or.....

When you first start meditating, relaxing, etc?

Here's what that means:

Your nervous system and body doesn't know how to down regulate, so it falls asleep.

It only knows the "go-go-go" speed and sleep speed. Because you've only trained it to be those two.

Our nervous system 🌟needs🌟 us to train in this setting.

Start small: set a 2 min. Timer and just breathe. Then move to 5 min.
Remember, anything is better than nothing. ❤️

11/21/2025

Sometimes, we have to induce fatigue in order to see discrepancies from side to side!

Here are two former athletes, the first one had a surgical repair to a torn labrum, and the other was a lower body dominant athlete.

When we see it, we should work to correct it.

These were 2-3 reps in for our banded wall slides. The Serratus Anterior muscles' job is to literally pin the scapula (shoulder blade) to the ribcage and thorax. You can see that the right side loses that ability (last two photos).

This exercise is a great assessment and tool to be able to maintain the integrity of the shoulder.

➡️ Here's the bigger deal: in order for your shoulder (glenohumeral joint) to function appropriately, your shoulder blade must function appropriately first. There are 🌟 3 🌟 smaller shoulder joints (AC, SC, and Scapulothoracic joints) that must function WELL in order for your glenohumeral joint to do its job.

11/19/2025

Let's talk about leg length discrepancy and back pain.

These are two photos of a patient that was currently in a low back flare. These photos are taken about 15 min apart. Notice the difference in the length of the toes (as compared to each other) from one photo to another.

Excessive muscle tension will after the pelvis and cause a functional leg length discrepancy.
💥These photos 💥

A true leg length discrepancy is caused by a fracture to a long bone during the childhood or growing years.

Many times I see patients wearing a heel lift that they were given over 20 years ago...due to a functional leg length discrepancy.

When there's a functional leg length discrepancy, there's usually always some type of muscle tension. BUT, we don't chase muscle tension. It's there for a reason and that's to protect the structures underneath it. We work with it. We get that 🧠 to trust the movements with the breath to ease her way out of the tension. Slowly and safely.

11/14/2025

These are such powerful photos that I want to share with you from an educational perspective.

Please, please, PLEASE do not force your little ones to walk 👏 BEFORE THEY CAN DO IT ON THEIR OWN👏

This includes: guiding them and holding their arms above their head to ambulate them.

Why??

💥 #1 rule with infant development: when they are ready to be put into a certain position or move a certain way, they will do it.💥 Forcing them to walk before they're ready or forcing them to sit up in a Bumbo seat before they are ready ➡️ setting them up for developmental joint issues later in life.

I can't tell you how many times I have found missed hip dysplasia or the development of impingement on a teenager or a young adult and when I ask how early they walked they tell me that their parents were so "proud because they were walking at 8 months old" or they "were a very early walker." My next question is always, were they? Or did the parents put them into a position to make them walk early?

Do you see the difference there?

My next question for you is when you walk: do you put your arms above your head? 😬

You know the answer to this.

Infants will walk and sit when their body is ready. When they are forced into a Bumbo to sit to be able to eat solid foods, and they aren't ready... We're talking serious stress to their lumbar spine and the future mechanics of their bodies.

With early walking and forced walking, the femoral head of the femur and the hip socket are still developing and this stress can actually change the congruency of these two bones. It's too much stress with gravity before their bones are ready to accept this load.

In the second photo you'll see that the infant is trying to sit down: look at the unnatural position of their legs. If you've ever watched an infant move, it's perfect. 🎯 It's perfect form every time because their brain has no other distractions or compensations. But in this case this baby is trying to do everything in their power to sit down because they are not ready to be held up in a walking position with their arms above their head.

Education is so powerful. ♥️

11/12/2025

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Pain is not the enemy—it’s a message asking you to adjust something: rest, move differently, get aligned, strengthen, or heal.

Low back pain is the leading disability AROUND THE GLOBE. Pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis. It's a messenger!

There are many ways to mask pain, and sometimes these can be very useful for short periods of time. But masking pain is not a solution. In fact, masking pain will lead to worse problems in the long run!

Finding hypomobile joints within the spine and extremities, applying an adjustment to restore motion, will help decrease pain signals and reduce painful and tense muscles. This isn't masking the pain: it's restoring the body to a state of balance!

11/11/2025

Happy Veterans Day! ❤️

We are so thankful for your service!

We have many patients that have served, in addition to our own family members. We are blessed to be surrounded by heroes everyday! ❤️