Story of Hope for Oakley

Challenge: Emotional Regulation, Anger

Oakley was brought into the office by his mom after hearing from a friend who’s son saw amazing results at Crossroads Chiropractic. Oakley started with us when he was was 5 years old and mom has felt that he was anxious and had a temper since he was born. When going through Oakley’s history, we discovered that Mom had an incredibly stressful pregnancy. Crossroads Chiropractic was the first place to talk to her about how maternal stress can impact the health/nervous system of the developing baby. Oakley was a surprise baby for the family that came later in life. Since mom wasn’t planning to have any other children, she had been taking a medicine that was not safe for pregnancy and was known to cause birth defects. As soon as she found out she was pregnant, she stopped taking the medicine but doing it still caused major stress (on top of being a full time teacher, a husband that is an emergency responder, and needing to build an addition to their home to create space for a third child)! Oakley was struggling with his constant emotional outbursts, hyperactivity, impulsivity, balance and coordination issues, as well as social/emotional challenges. Mom said he had been a difficult child and could almost immediately tell that he had a very different in temperament from his older siblings from the very beginning.

Oakley has become a much happier and calmer little boy since starting under chiropractic care at Crossroads Chiropractic. Oakley has better control of his emotions, he is sleeping better, he is less impulsive, less anxious, and he uses kinder towards his mom and family.

His mom’s words sum it up better than we could, “Oakley is happy all the time and I knew there was no reason for him to always be mad but now, I get to enjoy seeing him just be happy and who he is truly meant to be."