Leopold Chiropractic

Leopold Chiropractic Chiropractic Sports Medicine for Everyone.

05/28/2026

No joke, this guy started and spinning Olympics!

Now that’s fine motor control!

05/26/2026

The nervous system learns through movement, feedback, and repetition.

Using the Motion Guidance system allows us to make invisible movement patterns visible in real time. By combining laser-guided feedback with balance, eye movement, coordination, and motor control exercises, we can help the brain improve accuracy, awareness, timing, and stability.

In functional neurology, small changes in sensory input and motor output can create meaningful changes in posture, balance, attention, coordination, and performance. The goal isn’t just stronger muscles — it’s a more organized and adaptable nervous system.

Movement is brain training.

05/25/2026

Learn about the foundation of neuromotor development: Primitive Reflexes.

Every single kid I have worked with who has developmental delays, learning disabilities, and neurodiversity has shown retention of one or more of these reflexes.

They are one of the root causes of delay in development. Primitive Reflexes can be integrated through developmental movement patterning, laser and oxygen therapy, and functional medicine approaches.

If you are interested, send me a DM and I’ll give you the registration link.





05/24/2026

The floor is lava!

3 hits or fall off the beam and you are out! Best 2 out of 3.

Core control, balance, reaction, timing, and coordination.

The function of the core is to support the spine, and transfer forces between the upper and lower extremities and across the midline.

Blocking and striking (especially pared with a balance challenge) are intuitive ways to teach stability. A stable core is an anchored nervous system and a stable mind.

05/24/2026

Dodge the stick is a great game to play with a rambunctious kid.

It teaches spatial awareness, timing, and coordination. There are some squats and jumps snuck in there as well.

I also like that it has just a hint of danger.

I think we tend to really over protect our kids from getting hurt. Of course, don’t let them get injured, but pain, if dosed correctly is an amazing teacher. A little bonk can go a long way in creating motor memory.

The mental clarity that comes with using a knife or climbing a high tree is critical for developing sharp awareness.

A little stroll. 🤦🏽‍♂️My kids are thrilled to mosey around the block after dinner and it is one of the funnest parts of ...
05/23/2026

A little stroll. 🤦🏽‍♂️

My kids are thrilled to mosey around the block after dinner and it is one of the funnest parts of our day. Kid-led nonsense. It can easily take 20-30 minutes to go a block or two and we are all the better for it.

A simple walk can do a lot more than “burn energy” for a child’s nervous system.

Walking provides rhythmic, repetitive movement that helps organize sensory input, calm stress responses, and improve regulation. The steady left-right pattern of walking activates coordination between both sides of the brain while giving the vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive systems gentle input they often crave.

For many kids, especially those who struggle with attention, sensory overwhelm, emotional regulation, or anxiety, a walk can help shift the brain and body out of “fight or flight” and into a more calm, connected, regulated state.

Even 10–20 minutes of movement outdoors can make a noticeable difference in mood, focus, sleep, and behavior. Sometimes regulation doesn’t start with more discipline — it starts with movement.

05/21/2026

The lateral cerebellum plays a major role in planning, timing, and refining complex movement — but its influence goes far beyond athletics. This region also helps support cognitive flexibility, language, attention, motor learning, and the smooth coordination of thought and action.

In functional neurology, we often look at how the lateral cerebellum contributes to higher-level motor control, reaction timing, skill acquisition, and the integration of sensory information into purposeful movement. When this system is functioning well, movement becomes more efficient, adaptable, and automatic.

05/20/2026

The intermediate cerebellum helps fine-tune movement accuracy, coordination, and timing. It plays a key role in helping the body adapt movements in real time — whether catching a ball, navigating uneven ground, or coordinating complex motor patterns. In functional neurology, improving intermediate cerebellar function can support smoother movement, better postural control, motor learning, and more efficient sensory-motor integration.

05/19/2026

The midline cerebellum plays a key role in balance, posture, eye-head coordination, and core stability.
Balance beam walking challenges the brain to organize sensory input from the vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive systems while improving timing, coordination, and postural control.

By adding progressions—like head turns, uneven surfaces, dual-tasking, or backward walking—we can gradually increase the neurological demand and help build more adaptive, resilient movement patterns.

Small movements. Big brain work.

05/16/2026

In functional neurology, multimodal sensory integration means helping the brain process and coordinate information from multiple sensory systems at the same time — visual, vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, tactile, and interoceptive.

When these systems communicate efficiently, the brain can build better maps of the body and environment, supporting balance, coordination, attention, emotional regulation, motor planning, and learning.

Through targeted movement, sensory stimulation, visual-vestibular training, rhythm, balance work, and environmental interaction, we can challenge the nervous system in meaningful ways that promote adaptation and neuroplasticity. The goal isn’t just stronger muscles or better reflexes — it’s more efficient brain-body integration.

BrainBodyConnection PediatricNeurology

05/15/2026

The lateral cerebellum plays an important role in higher-level motor planning, coordination, timing, and even cognitive functions like attention, language, and problem solving. It helps the brain predict, refine, and smoothly sequence movement and thought, allowing us to adapt, learn new skills, and interact efficiently with the world around us. When this system is under-functioning, challenges can show up not only in coordination and motor control, but also in executive function, learning, and cognitive flexibility.

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