Dr. Kelsey Dobesh, DC, ATC, MS

04/07/2026

Veggies & Fruits.

Sometimes it's hard to get these into our day, but consider trying one of these packets (or scoops). One serving has the amount of antioxidants as 20 servings!

Our kids need antioxidants for brain energy and cellular function, just like us?

We have a variety of flavors to try and if you find one you like, we can order larger canisters for you! ❤️

Personally, I love to add mine to my morning protein drink!

04/06/2026

Recently, a young patient asked me, "What is the hardest condition to treat?"

The thing is...it's never the condition. It's the human attached to it.

When a human is stuck in their stress cycle and they no longer know how to get out, it becomes part of their story.

Whether I'm working with a back pain patient or a Functional Medicine patient, unrealized stress is THE LIMITING FACTOR.

It creates a mental block.
A wall.
Their recovery will only be partial because their nervous system doesn't feel safe enough.

Nothing in the body works alone, friends. Your mind and soul are connected to your physical body, whether you want to "believe" it or not.

If you're struggling and have tried "everything," then I encourage you to start assessing your own stress.

04/05/2026

Happy Easter! ✝️

04/02/2026

Sharing this golden nugget from :

A few examples I want to highlight here to go further in depth into this topic:
➡️ Pushing through pain, even if that means excessively forceful adjustments, can actually cause more sympathetic dominance in the nervous system
➡️➡️ Pain ignites the "fight or flight" mechanism and the body moves it protected mode rather than thrive mode
➡️➡️➡️ This reinforces the neuroplasticity changes that the "body isn't safe."

This is why techniques matter. This is why providers need to be able to use multiple techniques to 🌟meet the patient where they are. 🌟

Recently a patient came to us with horrible pain. She has seen provides in the past and told me "she was scared to be adjusted."
💥 This is the first indicator that she's in threat mode and has only been adjusted with aggressive techniques💥

Working with her and utilizing less aggressive techniques to mobilize the restricted joints, decrease the muscle spasms and pain, and encourage the nervous system to enter into a thrive mode (parasympathetic) is key!

If you've ever been in extreme pain, the brain isn't in a place of learning and listening; it's in a state of survival.

Giving the body what it needs vs "what we want" is the 🌟KEY🌟 to supporting health and resilience! ❤️

04/02/2026

03/31/2026

The clinic will be closed on Friday, April 3rd in observance of Good Friday.

We do have some adorable Easter gifts if you're looking for your kids, family, or for you! Stop in before Friday to get these! ❤️

03/30/2026

The dryness of this particular spring season has kicked up some of the gnarliest allergy symptoms I have seen in people! And we are just getting started!

I want to highlight something else that I think is really important, especially during a particularly rough season for allergens.

➡️ Ladies, if you feel like your allergies and sinus pressure, sinus headaches promise even sinus infections have increased during your menstrual cycle.. there's a reason:
🌟Histamine is directly linked to estrogen!!! 🌟

Estrogen increases the production of mast cells and these guys create histamine. So if you have noticed an uptick in the allergy and sinus pressure symptoms during your cycle .. YOU ARE NOT CRAZY!

Remember, our bodies are complex!

So if you feel like this has happened to you, this supplement is actually very helpful because the main ingredients are also really helpful in supporting your body's ability to detox estrogen!

We have these at the office! Or you can get these through my fullscript account!

03/28/2026

Thanks for having me today Peggy Hanzlik and friends! ❤️❤️❤️

03/26/2026

Parents, please hear me on this:

🚨Do not let your baby skip the crawling stage of development! 🚨

Here's the deal:
➡️ The ability to crawl on the ground it's a brain growth activity. The cross-crawl pattern with opposite movements of arms and legs is a HUGE part for our tiny humans brains, visual, and vestibular system growth.

➡️ Crawling is linked to better reading scores!

How?

➡️ Because during this cross crawl motion, brain is connecting opposite parts of the brain to create the movement, but this is also directly linked to our ability to visually read from left to right. It helps with the development of eye tracking!

*If you've ever known a child to be in any kind of OT or PT for reading issues, it is likely that they have some kind of cross crawl exercise to do!*

If a child cannot track their eyes appropriately or turn their head independent of arm or leg movement, then we will see primitive reflexes that remain (and these need to disappear).
When this happens, the brain is essentially stuck in a much younger age than the child is.

Have you noticed behaviors that seem inappropriate for your kids' age? This could be part of this issue.

In 2021 the CDC eliminated crawling as a developmental milestone for children. They made a lot of changes to things that year, but they completely eliminated crawling, and this is alarming because this is linked to so many other brain activities.

So things you can do for your kids:
➡️ If you notice your baby doesn't want to crawl, get them adjusted! Due to the record amount of growth that they have in that first year of life, they may need a gentle adjustment to help that pelvis and lumbar spine and lower extremities to become more mobile.
➡️ Physically get on the floor and show them and do this with them yourself
➡️ If your kid is struggling with reading or learning issues, spend some time climbing at parks on the rock walls, monkey bars, etc! Play time can also be rehab!

03/24/2026

I will die on this hill.

Stop the sports specialization in youth.
Just stop.

I'm coming to you as a healthcare provider: a sports chiropractor and a certified athletic trainer; and also as a mom of three kids that all wrestle.

Please listen to the entire video!

03/23/2026

I'm going there. So buckle up, friends!

Chiropractic care provides consistent, ✨specific✨ input to the nervous system by improving spinal motion and reducing interference. Over time, this helps the brain:
➡️Update movement patterns
➡️Improve body awareness (proprioception)
➡️Regulate tension and stress responses more efficiently

🌟Translation: You’re not becoming dependent—you’re retraining your system.🌟

Health isn’t something you “fix once.”

It’s something you maintain and express over time. Your nervous system is constantly responding to:
➡️Physical stress (posture, injuries)
➡️Chemical stress (nutrition, inflammation)
➡️Emotional stress

Chiropractic care helps the body stay adaptable and regulated amidst those stressors—but the choice to continue care is about lifestyle, not necessity.

Most people seeking care have 💥years💥 of accumulated stress, injury, or compensation patterns.
Changing that requires repetition—just like:
✨Exercise
✨Learning a skill
✨Rehabilitating an injury

No one says, “Once you start working out, you can never stop.”

But we understand that stopping means losing the adaptations you’ve built.
Chiropractic works the same way—it supports ongoing adaptation, not dependency.

Chiropractic helps your brain and body learn to function better. Like anything that supports health, you can choose to continue because you feel and function better—not because you’re dependent.

03/19/2026

N=1

What does that mean?

In healthcare, N=1 refers to the "idea" that positive outcomes for patients requires the critical thinking skills of:
1. The right patient
2. The right time
3. The right treatment

What does this mean in real life?
➡️ You're coming in for a follow up treatment to work on issue XYZ.
➡️➡️ the provider takes note that your stress level is substantial higher and your body is responding as such
➡️➡️➡️ The treatment for the day is altered to see 🌟YOU🌟 as you are.

If your stressed out of your mind, not sleeping, emotional, and feeling like you're ready to lose it.....oh and everything hurts like crazy....

This is not the time for your normal session.

I add SOT and cranial sacral and Activator techniques along with myofascial work to decrease your 💥fight or flight 💥 response.

Sara will add stretching, massage, gentle exercises to support your body and nervous system.❤️

June will greet you with her amazing, infectious joy and fight your insurance company to see you too.❤️

Why?

✨Because you can't heal in this state. ✨

You need safety.
You need breath work.
You need a place to let it all out.

This is why N=1 in our office.
It will always be this way, until I die.

Sometimes this means you have more visits. You know what this makes me say?

You deserve to be seen and have a provider see YOU AS YOUR ARE. You deserve to have a place to help get you back to "you," so you can be a service to your family, friends, and life.

And if that means more visits to be SEEN and HEARD, than what is the big deal?