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Have you or your child experienced symptoms like digestive issues, anxiety, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations, or frequent illness—and wondered if there’s a common thread? One potential root cause lies within the nervous system, in a structure called the vagus nerve. What Is the Vagus Nerve? The vagus nerve (cranial nerve X) is the longest and…

The nervous system is a highly adaptive, fault tolerant system.  Its primary purpose is to maintain homeostasis – balance within the all the body’s systems.  When its threshold is lowered, its ability to adapt decreases, creating compensated responses.  These can be heightened, deferred, or regressive in nature.  The response varies but the underlying cause is…

Tummy Time – A Crucial Neurodevelopment Process For the purpose of this article we are going to focus our discussion on tongue-ties. Infant developmental milestones are monitors of how the child’s nervous system is developing and adapting to its environment. During the first two years of life 80—90% of the groundwork for the developing nervous…

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction can present in adults and children with a variety of symptoms, affecting not only the jaw but also related structures like the head, neck, and ears. It may sometimes be subtle or mistaken for other conditions. If TMJ dysfunction is suspected, early evaluation is essential for appropriate evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and…

Chiropractic cranial adjusting is the art and science of restoring normal function to the cranial/dural-meningeal mechanism and the movement of cerebrospinal fluid (“We may regard the CSF as the equivalent of a lymphatic system, carrying away from the cranial and spinal systems substances that would not be able to leave at significant rates otherwise.”) Since…