Helping a newborn's nervous system do its job.

Birth is a big job for a small body, even when labour goes smoothly and quickly. The earliest months bring their own physical demands too. Tummy time, rolling, sitting up, each one asks a newborn's spine and muscles to do something new before they are always fully ready for it. Most of the families who come to see us are not chasing a diagnosis. They are chasing an explanation for something that does not quite add up: a baby who cries more than seems reasonable, or feeds well on one side and fights the other, or holds their head tilted the same way no matter how you turn them.

How we adjust

Why gentleness is not optional here

The main technique used in this office is Torque Release Technique, delivered with a handheld instrument called the Integrator. It delivers a light, specific, repeatable impulse to one segment of the spine at a time. There is no twisting, no cracking and no popping, at any age, which matters even more when the patient weighs twelve pounds. The same light, specific impulse is used across every age we see in this office, from newborns to seniors managing osteoporosis or spinal fusions, so a baby's first visit is, if anything, the easiest use of it in the building.

A typical first visit

Dr. Weitz checks your baby's spine and nervous system directly, the same way he would check any patient, just adjusted in scale and pressure. Every visit starts with listening, to you first, then to your baby, before any hands-on care begins. If something does not look like it belongs in this office, you will hear that plainly on day one rather than being handed a package to sign.