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Background: An 8-year-old male with a diagnosis of ADHD, dyslexia and suspected oppositional defiant disorder presented for Chiropractic care. His presenting concerns included severe resistance to academic tasks and daily transitions, defiance and emotional outbursts, sensory-seeking behaviour with chewing and mouthing, drooling and mouth breathing, poor motor tone with clumsiness and limited spatial awareness, separation anxiety, and difficulty with rules and social connection. His family had initiated, but not yet completed, a diagnostic assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Intervention: The patient received chiropractic care over approximately eleven months. Analysis and adjusting drew on the Paediatric Experience (PX) framework, Torque Release Technique (TRT) with the Integrator instrument, paediatric Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT), and craniopathy protocols.
Outcomes: A broad range of objective findings improved significantly over the course of chiropractic, though the retained Moro, ATNR, STNR and Spinal Gallant reflexes remained detectable at every evaluation, with variable laterality across time points. Notably, parents reported consistent and significant gains across sleep, mood, emotional regulation, outburst frequency, social engagement, dietary variety, multi-step instruction following, and executive function. This contributed to a significant increase in quality of life concomitant with decreases in behavioural and developmental challenges associated with his comorbidities.
Conclusion: Chiropractic care for paediatric neurodevelopment has yet to benefit from large-scale clinical studies or randomised controlled trials, despite case report data increasingly indicating improvements in individual cases. Further research into this issue is therefore warranted.
Author Keywords: Chiropractic; Subluxation; paediatrics; ADHD; dyslexia; emotional regulation; socio-emotional functioning.
Corresponding Author: Alexandra Zoda—drallie@getabsolutehealth.com
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