Brain Health and Chiropractic

06/12/2026

"It's not all in his head."

For months, that's all this family wanted someone to say.

Their son couldn't function. They pulled him out of school. And every day, it got worse — fast.

When they finally got real answers, they heard what we see all the time: symptoms like these often start with an injury or a virus. They're real. They're measurable. And they're worth taking seriously.

If your child's symptoms keep getting brushed off as "normal," there's a way to look closer.

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06/10/2026

If you've been told to wait and see if your kid's symptoms go away — there has never been a better time to start than right now.

Neuroplasticity is strongest in children. The younger the brain, the more aggressively it rewires. That window doesn't stay open forever. Every year you wait, the cost of intervention compounds.

So instead of waiting, we check. We make sure there are no active primitive reflexes. We make sure the eyes are moving the way they should. We make sure balance and coordination are where they need to be for the age.

These are the things that take the tiger out of the room. They calm the brain down. And a calm brain produces the focus, the behavior, the regulation, and the sleep that everything else depends on.

"Wait and see" was the standard advice when we didn't have functional neurology.

We do now. The tools to measure, identify, and rewire exist. Using them when the brain is most adaptable is the highest-leverage move a parent can make.

06/09/2026

The Brain Reset Program is a 4-day intensive.

Day 1 — We establish your Brain Reset Score in the morning: a comprehensive neurological evaluation that tells us exactly where your nervous system is breaking down and where we start. Then we get straight to work — over half of Day 1 is spent in rehab, because the sooner the nervous system gets the right input, the sooner it can begin to respond.

Day 2 — We layer. A fully customized care plan built around your Brain Reset Score, designed to drive neuroplasticity and begin shifting the patterns that have kept you stuck.

Day 3 — We deepen. Same individualized approach, building on the progress from the day before — because the nervous system responds to repetition and momentum.

Day 4 — We measure. We re-evaluate your Brain Reset Score to see exactly what changed, and you leave with a customized home care plan built to protect and continue that progress.

Four days. Real data.

A nervous system that finally has a direction.

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06/05/2026

If your child has been referred to us for behavioral issues, focus and attention struggles — maybe even an ADHD diagnosis — there's often a piece underneath nobody has looked at.

Primitive reflexes.

The Moro reflex. The ATNR. The STNR. Reflexes the body is born with, designed to integrate in the first one to three years of life. When they don't integrate, they keep the brain locked in fight-or-flight. A kid in chronic fight-or-flight cannot focus. Cannot regulate. Cannot sit still in a way that matches what's being asked of them.

We see this pattern over and over with kids who carry an ADHD label.

The good news: the nervous system at 4, 6, 9 years old is more adaptable than it will ever be again. Identifying and integrating those retained reflexes builds the foundation for everything that comes after — focus, attention, regulation, social comfort.

Medication can manage the symptom. Integration changes the wiring.

If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD and you've been told to wait — there's an option you may not have heard.

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06/03/2026

If your kid is "trying so hard and still falling behind" — read what most evaluations miss.

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06/01/2026

A concussion, a virus, chronic inflammation — they all have the capacity to knock the autonomic nervous system off its axis and leave it stuck in a state it can't regulate out of on its own.

The labels are different because the triggers are different, but the underlying neurological dysfunction is the same conversation.

That's why our approach doesn't change much between these three — the brain needs the same thing regardless of what broke it.

05/31/2026

Brain fog. Dizziness that comes and goes. Headaches that don't shake. Anxiety that started one day and never quite left. Fatigue your labs can't account for.

Most of the people who walk through this door have already seen the neurologist. The primary. Sometimes the ENT. The imaging came back clean. The symptoms didn't.

For some of them, it clicks during the history. "Have you ever taken a real hit to the head?" And the timeline starts to make sense — for them, and for us.

One year out.
Five years out.
Twenty years out from the impact.

For others, it's not concussion at all. The first visit looks the same either way.

Same exam. Every time.
60 to 90 minutes. That's how long it takes to do the work right.

It starts with the Brain Reset Symptom Index — the 40-question inventory we use to map what's actually going on.

Then a Comprehensive Neurological Exam — cranial nerves, eye movements, coordination, reflexes, sensory-motor function.

Then the diagnostics:
→ Neuro-Visual Processing Assessment (RightEye / VNG) — how your brain processes eye movements and visual input → BTrackS Modified CTSIB Balance Assessment — how your brain integrates visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive input to keep you stable → Reaction Time and Processing Assessment — neurological data conventional referrals rarely surface

Each one is scored and combined into a Brain Reset Score out of 100.

That's your starting point. That's the number we measure against on every follow-up. We're shooting for 100 on every single case.

If your symptoms haven't been explained — concussion-driven or otherwise — this exam was built for exactly that.

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05/29/2026

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05/27/2026

One of the questions I get most in the office is "Why does my kid still have these primitive reflexes?" The answer almost always traces back to one of two windows.

The most common is a concussion in the first two years of life. A kid hits their head — sometimes hard enough the parents remember, sometimes a fall nobody made much of at the time — and the brain development that was happening at that exact moment slows down. The primitive reflexes that should have integrated as part of that development don't quite get there. They stay retained. They show up later as a focus, posture, or emotional regulation issue.

The second is illness during the crawling phase. We develop at hyper speed in those first two years, and the act of crawling is one of the primary inputs the brain uses to integrate reflexes and build coordination between the hemispheres. When a kid gets a viral illness during that window and stops moving for two weeks — even just two weeks — the brain misses input it needed.

The reflex stays.

The pattern shifts.

Neither of these is anyone's fault.
Concussions happen.
Viruses happen.

But once we know the window matters, we can find what got left behind in it.

That's what the exam is for — and we use real diagnostic tools to do it, from sensory testing on the Senaptec station to eye tracking, balance, and primitive reflex screens.

If you've been wondering for years why your kid is still struggling with focus or coordination, that's the work.

— Dr. Cooper Dykstra, Brain Health and Chiropractic, Sioux Falls

05/27/2026

Chronic fatigue, tremors, dizziness, balance issues, and chronic pain.

Not a collection of separate problems. One dysfunctional cerebellum expressing itself in every direction.

The cerebellum does far more than most people realize. It coordinates movement, yes — but it also regulates muscle tone, modulates pain signals, supports autonomic function, and plays a critical role in how efficiently the brain produces and conserves energy. When the cerebellum stops firing the way it should, the entire system feels it. Tremors because the motor output is uncoordinated. Balance issues and dizziness because the timing signals are off. Chronic pain because the brain’s ability to dampen pain has been compromised. Chronic fatigue because a nervous system working this hard to compensate burns through its resources around the clock.

That’s where we started.

A comprehensive functional neurological evaluation told us exactly which pathways were underperforming and gave us a clear direction for care. Four days of concentrated, customized neurological rehabilitation targeting the cerebellar pathways driving the dysfunction. On the final day we re-evaluated and measured exactly what changed.

There is hope and a plan for cases like this.

If you or someone you know is dealing with symptoms that have never been connected to a root cause — we would love to help.

Schedule a comprehensive exam or start with a Free Discovery Call at brainhealthandchiro.com or call 📞 (605) 799-7579.