Dr. Kelsey Dobesh, DC, ATC, MS

11/07/2025

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Fun fact:
The word chiropractic actually comes from two separate words:
➡️ “cheir” (hand)
➡️ “praktikos” (done by hand)

D.D. Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic, used his hands because he believed the body could be healed naturally — without drugs or surgery — through physical adjustments that restored proper alignment and nerve function.

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11/05/2025

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Chiropractic care is just as important for kids as it is for adults! ❤️

Have you ever noticed how your mood improves after an adjustment?

It's not just adults that experience this....kids do too!🫶

How?
1. Nervous System Regulation

Chiropractic adjustments primarily affect the 🌟nervous system, 🌟 not just the spine.
When the spine or surrounding joints are restricted, they can create imbalanced input to the brain through the spinal cord and proprioceptive (movement-sensing) nerves.
➡️➡️Adjustments restore healthy movement and alignment.

This can help normalize communication between the body and brain.🧷

A more balanced nervous system often helps the child self-regulate better ➡️ leading to calmer, more focused behavior. 🫶

> Better spinal movement = clearer brain signals = better self-control and emotional balance. ❤️

2. Impact on the Stress Response

When the nervous system is constantly in “fight or flight” mode, kids can seem anxious, impulsive, or irritable. 😳
Gentle chiropractic adjustments can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system — the “rest, digest, and repair” branch.

That shift helps the body:
➡️Lower stress hormones (like cortisol)
➡️Improve sleep quality
➡️Enhance focus and mood stability
➡️Many parents notice their kids are calmer or more emotionally balanced after a few visits.

3. Sensory Integration and Proprioception

Movement of the spine and joints stimulates receptors that send information to the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex — areas tied to movement, attention, and behavior.
When these systems work better, children can:

➡️Feel more “in control” of their bodies
➡️Respond better to sensory input
➡️Exhibit fewer meltdowns or hyperactive behaviors

🌟This is particularly relevant for kids with sensory processing challenges or ADHD-type traits.🌟

4. Improved Sleep and Comfort

If a child has underlying discomfort, tension, or headaches, they may act out or have trouble concentrating.
Adjustments can relieve:
➡️Muscle tension
➡️Irritation in spinal joints
➡️Nervous system overload
➡️Better sleep and comfort often lead to improved mood, patience, and learning capacity.

5. Indirect Benefits Through Routine and Connection

Regular chiropractic care can also create a predictable routine and a positive, caring connection — both of which support emotional development.

Children often associate the adjustment environment with safety, which reinforces calm behavior patterns.

Chiropractic care doesn’t treat behavior directly ➡️➡️➡️
It helps the nervous system function at its best, which allows a child’s body and brain to regulate naturally.

11/03/2025

🌟 Gratitude Giveaway 🌟

We are so grateful for all of your support and continued support and in the spirit of a grateful November, we are doing a 🌟 Gratitude Giveaway 🌟.

Here's how to enter:
1. Schedule an appointment for ANY service in the month of November
➡️➡️ This includes chiropractic, rehab with Sara, massage chair, infrared sauna

Have more than one appointment in the month? You just earned yourself another entry! ❤️

We will contact the winners privately!

Thanks for being so awesome! ❤️

10/31/2025

The claim that “chiropractic care is not effective” has been made repeatedly over the last century, but it’s not always based purely on data — it’s tied to emotional, economonic, political, and philosophical differences about what “effective” means, how evidence is judged, and how chiropractic care fits into the medical system.

Let’s unpack this clearly and objectively:
⚕️ 1. Historical context: medicine vs. chiropractic

Chiropractic began in 1895 with D.D. Palmer’s idea that spinal misalignments (“subluxations”) could disrupt nervous system flow and affect overall health.
At the time, medicine had little scientific grounding — it was before antibiotics, vaccines, or modern diagnostic imaging.

But as medicine evolved into a science-based field (especially after 1910’s Flexner Report), it began to emphasize laboratory proof and biomedical explanations.

Chiropractic, meanwhile, stayed rooted in a 🌱vitalistic, holistic model — emphasizing the body’s self-healing ability and the spine’s role in health.

Medicine saw chiropractic’s early claims as unscientific and unproven, especially the idea that adjusting the spine could affect organs (especially the brain), immunity, or disease.

⚖️ 2. Scientific skepticism — evidence and mechanism
Medical institutions would often state that chiropractic care was “not effective” because of:

Inconsistent evidence and quality of studies:
Many early chiropractic studies were small, lacked randomization, or had methodological flaws, giving critics grounds to question their validity.

✨So, the chiropractic profession went to work! They published hundreds of studies PROVING the effectiveness in the care they provided and they did this with the highest proof literature: randomized, controlled trials (RCT’s) and systematic reviews.

🧠 3. Professional turf and economics
Beyond science, there was a strong political and 💲 financial motive 💲to quiet the chiropractic profession.

In the mid-1900s, the American Medical Association (AMA) labeled chiropractic an “unscientific cult.” 😳

The AMA’s “Committee on Quackery” (1960s–80s) actively tried to eliminate chiropractic through public relations campaigns, medical education, and insurance exclusion.

In 1987, a U.S. federal court (the Wilk v. AMA case) ruled that the AMA unlawfully conspired to destroy chiropractic competition.

So, the “ineffective” narrative was reinforced not just by evidence gaps — but by institutional bias and competition over control of musculoskeletal care and healthcare dollars.

📚 4. What modern evidence actually shows
Recent decades have changed the landscape:
Systematic reviews consistently show spinal manipulation (the main chiropractic intervention) is effective for acute and chronic low back pain and neck pain!

Evidence also supports benefits for headaches, joint mobility, and improved function (aka: neuroplasticity).

So, the evidence supports chiropractic! It ALWAYS HAS. The proof is in the data! ▶️ In the world of healthcare, data is the driving factor (or it’s supposed to be)!

Chiropractic care isn’t going away, friends. We are here to stay and we won’t be silenced. The proof of the cost effectiveness for chiropractic care, effectiveness for spinal pain, headaches, etc. has been published and CONTINUES to prove itself.

Education is powerful, but education with action is how change occurs! ✌️

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!

10/30/2025

✨ Did you know our gut health and immune function are deeply interconnected?
70–80% of our immune system lives in our gut. Here’s how they influence each other:

🧠 1. The Gut-Immune Connection (Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue)

Your gut lining contains a major immune hub called the GALT (Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue). This system:

🟣Monitors what enters through food and drink.
🟣Distinguishes between harmless substances (like nutrients or probiotics) and harmful invaders (like pathogens).
🟣Produces immune cells (B cells, T cells, macrophages) that protect your body.

🦠 2. Gut Microbiome: The Immune Trainer

The gut microbiome — trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes — helps “train” the immune system:
🟣Healthy gut bacteria teach immune cells to tolerate beneficial microbes and food antigens.
🟣They produce metabolites that reduce inflammation and strengthen gut barrier integrity.
🟣When the microbiome is diverse and balanced, immune responses stay calm and controlled.
🟣When it’s imbalanced (dysbiosis), the immune system can become:
💥Overactive → leading to autoimmunity or allergies.
💥Underactive → leading to frequent infections.

🧱 3. Gut Barrier: The First Line of Defense

The gut lining acts like a tight filter — allowing nutrients in but keeping toxins and microbes out.
If it becomes "leaky" or increased intestinal permeability:
❌Bacterial toxins (like LPS) can leak into the bloodstream.
💥💥💥This triggers systemic inflammation and immune activation.
💥Over time, this can contribute to fatigue, skin issues, joint pain, and even autoimmune diseases.

🌿 4. Nutrition and Microbiome Support
A healthy gut supports the immune system through:
🌱Fiber-rich foods → feed beneficial bacteria that produce anti-inflammatory compounds.
🌱Fermented foods → supply probiotics that strengthen gut defenses.
✨Balanced nutrition → provides vitamins A, D, and zinc, which regulate immune cell activity.

⚖️ 5. Stress and Gut-Immune Balance
Chronic stress or poor sleep disrupts the microbiome and suppresses gut immunity by raising 💥cortisol💥 levels.
Mind-gut communication also influences how the immune system responds to stress or infection.

10/28/2025

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Want to know how movement, synovial fluid, and joints can heal with chiropractic adjustments?

🦴 1. The Role of Movement in Joint Health

Joints are designed to move, not just for flexibility but for nutrition and repair.
When a joint becomes restricted (due to injury, poor posture, or muscle imbalance), several things happen:
▶️Blood flow and nutrient exchange decrease.
▶️Waste products accumulate. (Hello, inflammation!)
▶️Nearby muscles and ligaments tighten to protect the area.(Aka:knots and trigger points!)
▶️Nerves send altered or “noisy” signals to the brain, affecting coordination and balance.
This lack of motion is called hypomobility, and it sets the stage for joint degeneration and inflammation.

💧 2. Synovial Fluid: The Joint’s Lifeblood

Inside most joints is synovial fluid, a thick, slippery substance that:
➡️Lubricates the joint surfaces to reduce friction.
➡️Feeds the cartilage (which has no direct blood supply).
➡️Removes metabolic waste from the joint capsule.

🌀 Movement is what circulates synovial fluid.
When a joint moves, it acts like a pump, squeezing and releasing the capsule, which:
🌟Pushes fresh fluid in.
🌟Flushes waste out.
🌟Keeps cartilage smooth, resilient, and nourished.

If a joint stops moving, synovial fluid becomes stagnant — much like a pond without flow — and cartilage begins to dry, crack, and thin.

⚙️ 3. How Chiropractic Adjustments Restore Movement

A chiropractic adjustment (spinal or extremity) is a specific, controlled thrust applied to a restricted joint.
Here’s what happens at the tissue level:
➡️The adjustment releases the joint fixation, allowing normal motion to return.
➡️That movement stimulates mechanoreceptors (movement sensors) in the joint capsule.
➡️Mechanoreceptors send clear signals to the spinal cord and brain, recalibrating muscle tone and coordination.
➡️The synovial fluid begins circulating again, bathing cartilage with oxygen and nutrients.
🌟The result: less friction, less inflammation, and better neurological control.🫶

🧬 4. Healing at the Joint Surface Level

With proper motion and fluid flow restored:
✨Cartilage cells (chondrocytes) can receive nutrients and repair microdamage.
The joint capsule becomes more elastic.
✨Inflammatory cytokines (pain chemicals) decrease.
✨Muscles surrounding the joint relax, improving alignment and load balance.
✨Over time, this reduces wear and tear and supports tissue regeneration.

🌿 5. The Neuroplastic Bonus

Every adjustment also provides powerful sensory feedback to the brain and cerebellum, which:
❣️Re-maps movement patterns.
❣️Normalizes pain processing.
❣️Enhances proprioception (body awareness).

This is why patients often report improved mobility, less stiffness, and even better balance — all rooted in how the nervous system integrates restored motion.

🧩 In Summary
Chiropractic care helps joints heal by restoring movement, which revives synovial fluid flow, nourishes cartilage, reduces inflammation, and rebalances neurological control.

📢Movement is medicine — and chiropractic adjustments help the body move, feed, and repair itself naturally! ✌️

10/27/2025

🌟 Everything is connected. 🌟

Seriously, everything is connected.

If you've ever wondered why I will also work on the upper back and neck during a foot complaint, here are some pictures for further clarification.

It is the same piece of fascia that connects your cranium muscles to your feet and travels through your entire body!!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Fasica is divided into layers throughout our bodies, too.

Myofascial pain can be intense and debilitating. This includes Fibromyalgia, Hypermobility syndromes, etc.

Here's a few things that can help your fascia:

1. Daily movement is NON-NEGOTIABLE. It HAS to happen. Fascia is loaded with nerve receptors and pain receptors, AND we know that movement is medicine, so we need to feed this system movement throughout the entire day.
➡️ Standing desks or desks that can transition from seated to standing are a HUGE help!
➡️ Walking, lifting weights, Pilates, and yoga. You need it all!

2. Water and mineral intake, daily. You've got to stay hydrated, and this doesn't mean just water. Minerals are the spark plugs for cells to create energy, AND without out minerals, water cannot get into the cells to hydrate them. Have you ever noticed how much you'll urinate in a day when all you drink is straight water? Not with minerals! You'll open the cells and allow the water to hydrate them!
➡️ Try our hydrate samples! They are DELICIOUS! (Also available in canisters on our online NutriDyn store on our website).

3. Stress resiliency support. Notice how I didn't say "manage your stress?" ✨Create a more resilient stress system! ✨ Support those adrenals, friends! Spend time BY YOURSELF to create space and peace in your day. ❤️
➡️ Journal, pray, meditate, breathe, and just be still for part of your day.

4. Get adjusted regularly. Because movement is medicine and adjustments create movement. ✌️

10/26/2025

Michael needs some care too.
We love and don't judge here! ✌️

10/24/2025

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Have you seen your chiropractor lately?!

10/21/2025

Pain isn’t just a physical signal from the body; it actually changes the brain’s chemistry and structure over time, especially when it becomes chronic.

🧠 1. Pain Starts as a Protective Signal

When you get injured or experience inflammation, specialized nerve endings (nociceptors) send signals through the spinal cord to the brain.

The brain interprets these signals as pain — a warning to protect you from further harm. ➡️ Muscles will tense up to protect the injury or range of motion of affected joints will lose range of motion.

At this stage, pain is acute, and brain chemistry quickly returns to normal once the tissue heals.

⚙️ 2. If Pain Persists, the Brain Adapts

If pain continues for weeks or months, the brain begins to rewire itself — a process called ❌maladaptive neuroplasticity❌.

Pain pathways become hypersensitive.
The brain starts to 💥amplify💥 pain signals even without new injury.

Regions that normally quiet pain (like the prefrontal cortex) become less active, while areas that perceive pain (like the somatosensory cortex and limbic system) become overactive.

Essentially, the brain learns to “expect” pain — and this changes its chemistry.

🧪 3. Key Neurochemical Changes

a. Glutamate and Substance P ↑
These excitatory neurotransmitters increase, amplifying pain transmission in the spinal cord and brain.

The result: normal sensations may start to feel painful! 🥺

b. GABA and Endorphins ↓
GABA (a calming neurotransmitter) and endorphins (natural painkillers) decrease.
The brain loses some of its ability to “turn down” pain.

c. Dopamine and Serotonin Imbalances
Chronic pain disrupts dopamine (motivation, reward) and serotonin (mood, calmness) systems.
This can lead to fatigue, depression, and loss of motivation — symptoms often seen with long-term pain.

d. Increased Cortisol and Stress Hormones
Ongoing pain keeps the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activated.
Chronic stress hormones like cortisol can damage neurons, impair memory, and increase inflammation — feeding the pain cycle.

🧩 4. Brain Structure Also Changes
Brain imaging studies show that chronic pain can cause:
➡️Gray matter loss in the prefrontal cortex and thalamus
➡️Increased activity in the amygdala (emotional fear center)
➡️Altered connectivity between pain-processing and emotional-regulation networks

These changes make pain harder to shut off — but they’re also reversible with proper treatment and neuroplastic retraining.

🌱 5. The Hopeful Part — the Brain Can Rewire
Because of 🌟neuroplasticity🌟, the same mechanism that amplifies pain can also reverse it.

Interventions like:
Chiropractic care!
Mind-body practices (meditation, prayer, breathing, vagus nerve stimulation)
Exercise
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Adequate sleep and nutrition

…can rebalance neurotransmitters, reduce inflammation, and normalize brain connectivity, allowing pain circuits to quiet down!!!

10/20/2025

Breathing isn't something we intentionally think about, unless we are praying or meditating.

Your lower back, pelvic floor, and core function are ALL integrated together with your breath.

Breathing is our foundation. 🧘

Diaphragmatic breathing is how we get out of our sympathetic state of life and turmoil.
It's how we shift into a state of present vs. "to do" list.

We aren't made to thrive in a heightened sympathetic state; this state was made to survive.

Chiropractic adjustments are designed to shift your body away from sympathetic overdrive and down regulate into a parasympathetic "present" state.

This is why your body feels more balanced and in a state of alignment after your adjustment.

You ever noticed why I say "take a deep breath" repeatedly during your adjustment? It's not just to help relax the muscle tension; it's to help your body unconsciously shift into that parasympathetic state!

The human body is so cool.