Dysgraphia is a learning disability that impacts a child’s handwriting and fine motor abilities. It can create difficulty in proper word spacing, spelling, and a child being able to put their thoughts on paper. Dysgraphia is known to be caused by differences in brain function and impaired communication between areas of the brain involved in writing.   Children with dysgraphia have difficulty with both orthographic coding (using the visual system to form, store, and recall words) and planning sequential finger movements for the process of writing.

Both or these two writing skills are planned in the brain. In working memory, the brain takes in information through the senses and stores it to use later. Before a person starts writing, he retrieves information from his short- or long-term memory and gets organized to begin writing. In a person with dysgraphia, these steps in the writing process go off track neurologically.

Parents who suspect their child may be struggling with this condition should look for specific signs including; painful pencil grip, sentence structure issues, difficulty following the child’s written thoughts, difference in pronunciation between their spoken and written words. Testing can be done by a professional such as the child’s Pediatrician, trained Psychologist, or Occupational Therapist. Having a diagnosis early is essential for the child’s success.

Since learning disabilities are neurologically-based, Craniosacral Therapy and Chiropractic care aim to correct interference along the nervous system, it follows that reduction or elimination of such interference can only help. This in fact is supported by good research.

Craniosacral therapy looks for slight changes in the cerebrospinal fluid, this is the fluid found around the brain and the spinal cord. This fluid when it does not have any restrictions in function, has a particular rhythm, rate, and flow. Craniosacral therapy aims to work at releasing any fluid blockages that may be present throughout thespinal canal of the central nervous system and brain allowing optimum level of central nervous system function.

Within Chiropractic care, subluxation is the mechanical compression and irritation to spinal joints and nerves.  Subluxations congest the cerebral spinal fluid flow (the neurological feedback loop) by causing altered rhythms of neurological flow.  Subluxations in the cranial bones and misalignments in the spine lead to interference within the nervous system which can lead to many negative health complications, including suspected learning disabilities. Studies dating as far back at 1980’s show improvements in multiple learning disabilities through consistent Chiropractic adjustments. Adjustments coupled with Craniosacral Therapy are the most effective in treating these potential learning disabilities as the body’s cerebrospinal fluid is released and allowed to nourish brain and body cells properly.

Receiving adjustments through a trained Chiropractor can also help the child with Dysgraphia reduce the stress of living with this condition as many children find these adjustments to be relaxing.

Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.

After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.

At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.

At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.

In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.

Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.

And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.

Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.