Daniel

Meet Daniel, a bright young boy who came to our office facing challenges with reading, speech delay, fine motor skills, and emotional regulation. His journey hasn’t been easy—early life stressors like maternal stress, a premature birth, and birth trauma set his nervous system on high alert right from the start. 😔 His struggles with sleep and heightened stress responses only added to the mix, making focus, learning, and emotional stability even harder. 📚💬🧠

Daniel's mom was deeply motivated to help him improve his speech, reading comprehension, and emotional balance. She knew that these challenges weren't just about behavior or effort—they were signals that Daniel's nervous system was overwhelmed. When the nervous system is stuck in overdrive, it struggles to communicate properly with the brain, leading to difficulties in speech, focus, and development.

Through consistent, neurologically-focused care, we've been working to calm Daniel’s stressed nervous system, allowing him to better process and integrate information. 🧠✨ And guess what? Daniel has recently made fantastic breakthroughs! His speech is becoming clearer, his reading comprehension is improving, and he’s finding more emotional stability. 🎉

Mason

It began with some sensory issues, trouble with transitions that continued through 3k and in 4k. We were getting sporadic communication from his teacher in 4k, and the things she was describing to us about his behavior didn’t seem like our child. He was insubordinate, violent, and angry. I was being called multiple times a week to pick him up from school early. As a teacher myself, I knew that something wasn’t right. He was finally diagnosed with autism in December, and we were hopeful that the school would be able to provide what he needed to be successful. We still struggled. He wouldn’t be able to start SpEd services for a few weeks, and, after observing for a week in his classroom, we realized that he was mimicking student behavior, that the teacher was struggling with how to deal with a student on the spectrum, and that the administration was adopting a very “hands off” approach. After being informed that my very high-functioning child (He was reading aloud and counting to 100 at the age of 4) would be placed in a self-contained SpEd classroom because of his behavior, I considered taking a leave of absence from my teaching job so that I could homeschool him. Finally, in January, a friend of mine suggested we go listen to this talk called “The Perfect Storm”. To be honest, I thought it was going to be a bunch of baloney, but we were at our wits end with Mason, and we knew he was really struggling. He wasn’t happy at school, and it carried over into our home life, making us miserable, too. When Dr. Angela began speaking, I immediately thought “She’s describing Mason and what he is going through! We might finally be getting some answers!” It was incredibly emotional for me, and at one point, I was openly bawling. I made Mason’s initial appointment that night, and the following week, our family went to the office for Mason’s initial scans and evaluation. It was daunting, at the beginning, thinking that we would be driving down to West Ashley three times a week, for something that we were crossing our fingers would work with Mason.
I truly believe that there was a higher power at work during this transitional time. We found Dr. Angela and Dr. Chris at a point in our lives where we felt like everyone had given up on our child. Also, shortly after Mason began chiropractic, we were able to transfer him to the 4K program at a different school, where he began to thrive. All of these things just seemed to fall into place, and Mason began to literally transform. Almost immediately, there were fewer and fewer meltdowns. We weren’t having screaming matches every day after school. He was just HAPPIER. I feel like I finally have MY child back. He’s sociable, smart, funny, loving, and kind. Those are not words that anyone would have used to describe him 5 months ago.
Now, as we are nearing the end of his initial care plan, which we began back in January, it seems bittersweet. Drs. Angela and Chris are the most caring people. Mason absolutely adores them, and enjoys his adjustments, as well as his “play time” with Dr. Chris afterwords! I know that what they have done for him isn’t some miracle cure that magically turned our son into the person I always knew that he was, but it’s hard not to credit them with being a large part of his “recovery”.
I don’t have the words to describe what they have done for our family, but if your child is struggling, and you feel as though there is NOTHING more you can do, please know that there is still hope, and that Dr. Angela and Dr. Chris truly care about making children healthier. We could not have made this journey without them.

- Lisa R.