Nervous System Focused Chiropractic
Nervous System Focused Chiropractic
Free Guide
How supporting nervous system function alongside medical care can help a child with PANDAS or PANS find more stability
Your child went from being themselves to sudden anxiety, OCD behaviors, tics, or emotional changes that appeared overnight. You've been fighting for answers, for diagnosis, for treatment, and you're exhausted. What you're seeing is real. And you're right to keep looking for support.
A quick look at what is inside your guide.
Sudden Behavioral or Psychiatric Changes
The hallmark of PANDAS and PANS is an abrupt onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms, OCD behaviors, tics, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation that appear suddenly and are distinctly different from the child's baseline.
Sleep Disruption
Sleep is commonly severely disrupted during PANDAS and PANS episodes. A nervous system locked in an inflammatory stress response cannot make the shift into restorative sleep, creating a cycle that worsens overall stability.
Sensory Sensitivities
Many children experience significantly heightened sensory sensitivities during episodes, sounds, textures, and light become genuinely overwhelming to a nervous system that has lost its capacity to filter.
Emotional Dysregulation and Raging
The loss of emotional regulation is one of the most distressing features of PANDAS and PANS for families. The child cannot modulate their emotional responses, even when they want to.
Cognitive Fog and School Decline
Episodes often bring a marked decline in academic performance, memory, and ability to concentrate, reflecting the brain's reduced capacity for higher-level function during an inflammatory stress state.
"PANDAS and PANS require medical management. Our role is to support the nervous system's capacity and stress response as a complement to that care, reducing the overall load on a system that is already working very hard. Some families report that when nervous system function improves, their child's ability to stabilize and recover improves alongside it."
We want to be clear from the start: PANDAS and PANS require medical diagnosis and treatment. That part is not negotiable. If you haven't yet found a physician who takes this seriously, finding one is the first priority.
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About Us
Dr. Saylor, Dr. Zach, and Dr. John provide gentle, nervous system-focused chiropractic care for the whole family. They work with people navigating stress, tension, sleep challenges, developmental concerns, pregnancy, pain, and the daily demands that can keep the nervous system stuck in overdrive.
Their approach uses low-force techniques that communicate directly with the nervous system. No cracking, twisting, or popping. Just gentle, specific input that helps the body's own regulatory systems come back online.