Conditions
What we help parents with
Most of the families who come to Little Roots arrive with a short list of concerns and a longer list of questions. Here's a guide to the conditions we see most — and how gentle, nervous-system-focused chiropractic fits into the bigger picture of your child's care.
ADHD & Attention
ADHD isn't a behavior problem and chiropractic isn't a treatment for it. But care that helps the nervous system regulate gives kids with attention challenges more capacity to use the tools that work — and that's everything.
Learn more →Anxiety in Kids
Anxiety isn't worry — it's the nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight when there's no fight to fight. Care that helps the body downshift gives kids more capacity to use the tools that actually work.
Learn more →Autism Spectrum Support
Chiropractic care doesn't treat autism — it supports the nervous system that your child lives in. A system with less tension and more capacity can show up more fully in the therapies, school, and daily life you've already built around them.
Learn more →Bed Wetting
Bed wetting past the typical age isn't a discipline problem, a laziness issue, or a sign of emotional trouble. It's often a nervous-system maturation gap — specifically in the lumbar and sacral pathways that control bladder signaling at night.
Learn more →Breech Positioning
When a baby is breech, it usually means the uterus has uneven tension — not that your baby is stuck. Webster Technique, performed by Dr. Laura Swaim (ICPA Webster Certified), addresses that tension so your baby has the space to turn on their own.
Learn more →Colic
Colic isn't a personality trait — it's often a baby's nervous system stuck on high alert. Gentle chiropractic care helps the system downshift so feeding, sleeping, and being held start to feel okay again.
Learn more →Developmental Delays
Motor milestones, speech development, cognitive processing — all of it runs through a nervous system. When that system holds structural tension, it can limit what's available to your child. Gentle care creates more capacity, and more capacity compounds.
Learn more →Ear Infections
When a child gets four, six, eight ear infections in a year, the question isn't just 'which antibiotic?' — it's why drainage keeps failing. Gentle chiropractic care targets the eustachian tube mechanics and vagal tone that make drainage possible in the first place.
Learn more →Reflux
Spit-up is normal. Arching through feeds, crying after eating, sleeping fitfully, and never seeming satisfied — that's reflux, and it's almost always a nervous-system regulation story before it's a digestion story.
Learn more →Sciatica During Pregnancy
The sharp, shooting pain down your leg isn't just 'part of pregnancy.' Prenatal chiropractic care — gentle, safe, and performed with proper positioning — addresses the sacral and lumbar mechanics that compress the sciatic nerve as your body changes.
Learn more →Sensory Processing
Sensory processing isn't a personality quirk — it's the nervous system trying to filter a world that feels overwhelming. Care that calms the system gives your child more room to be themselves.
Learn more →Sleep Issues (Toddlers & Kids)
Bedtime battles, frequent night wakings, and 2 a.m. visits to your room aren't just phases — they're signals that a toddler or child's nervous system isn't downshifting the way it should. Gentle care helps it find the transition the body needs to rest.
Learn more →Sleep Regulation
Short naps, frequent wakings, a baby or toddler who fights sleep no matter what you try — these are signals that the nervous system is stuck in 'on.' Gentle care helps it find the off switch.
Learn more →Torticollis & Head Shape
Head tilt, flat spots, asymmetric jaw — these are often the same story told from different angles. Gentle in-arms work helps the system release the holding pattern that's keeping your baby stuck on one side.
Learn more →These pages are educational, not medical advice. Always involve your pediatrician for serious health concerns — chiropractic care complements but doesn't replace primary medical care, OT, speech therapy, or other specialty teams your child may need.
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