Lyme disease and its co-infections can wreak havoc on the nervous system, causing a wide array of symptoms that affect every aspect of life. At Van Every Family Chiropractic Center, we offer supportive care that focuses on optimizing nervous system function, helping your body heal alongside your Lyme-literate medical treatment.
Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) and common co-infections like Bartonella, Babesia, and Ehrlichia have a particular affinity for the nervous system, causing neuroborreliosis, widespread inflammation, autonomic dysfunction, pain syndromes, and cognitive issues. Our doctors use Koren Specific Technique (KST) and Talsky Tonal Chiropractic (TTC), gentle, neurologically focused approaches that support your nervous system through every phase of your Lyme journey.
What Lyme Often Brings With It
Brain fog and profound fatigue that doesn't improve with rest. Migratory joint and muscle pain that shifts location and intensity from week to week. Heart palpitations, blood pressure irregularities, POTS-like symptoms, headaches, dizziness, and nerve pain that burns, tingles, or shoots. Temperature dysregulation and disrupted sleep round out a list that can feel endless, especially on the days when it seems like every system in your body is struggling at once.
Support Through Every Phase
Lyme patients are often highly sensitive, so we start by getting a clear picture of where you are, active treatment, a Herxheimer reaction, rebuilding during recovery, or managing post-Lyme syndrome, and meet you exactly there. We pace care to your treatment cycles and celebrate every bit of ground you gain.
By reducing interference to the nervous system, we help your body better coordinate its healing response, adapt to the demands of fighting a persistent infection, and support a more effective immune response, all without adding to your medication burden.
Reading What Your Nervous System Is Doing
Using the INSiGHT scans, thermal, heart rate variability, and sEMG, we can see exactly where your nervous system is under stress, tension patterns from chronic infection, inflammation, or the demands of treatment that your body hasn't yet released. That objective picture guides our approach based on what your body needs rather than your symptom list alone. Adjustments stay ultra-gentle, seated, standing, or lying down, whichever position feels best that day.
What Patients Notice
Reduced joint and muscle pain, clearer thinking, and more energy come up often, alongside steadier heart rate and blood pressure and fewer headaches. Better sleep tends to follow as the nervous system settles, and many patients also notice they tolerate their treatment protocols better and simply feel more like themselves through a difficult stretch.
We respect your Lyme-literate doctor's treatment plan and are glad to communicate directly with them, timing our care around whatever phase of treatment you're in.
Take the First Step
If Lyme has your nervous system working overtime, our doctors in Royal Oak are glad to be part of your care team.
Common Questions
How does chiropractic care fit alongside my Lyme treatment?
Will adjustments trigger a Herxheimer reaction?
I am very sensitive to touch and treatment. Can you still help me?
Do you coordinate with my Lyme-literate doctor?
Can this help with brain fog, nerve pain, or other neurological symptoms?
How long before I notice a difference?
Related: Chronic Fatigue · POTS & Dysautonomia · Fibromyalgia · Immune System Support · Long COVID
