Output · Skills
Occupational therapy
Fine motor, sensory processing, daily living, regulation strategies. OT coaches the hands, the senses, and the routines.
Your child’s nervous system is the command center.
Sleep, focus, digestion, speech, immunity, and how they handle the world all run through it. It is the fundamental layer. If it isn’t addressed and corrected, OT, PT, and speech cannot be as effective — no matter how excellent the therapist.
$67 pediatric exam
Parent consult + full INSiGHT™ neurological scans. Painless, radiation-free, and built to show you — not tell you — how your child’s nervous system is actually functioning.
We measure the nervous system. Then we care for it.
INSiGHT scans on every pediatric exam
5.0 on Google
Families across the San Gabriel Valley
Since 2010
Best Chiropractor, Pasadena Weekly
ICPA · PX Docs
Pediatric & Webster certified
INSiGHT scans
Objective nervous system data
The fundamental layer
Until the nervous system is corrected, OT, PT, and speech can only go so far.
Those therapies are extraordinary. They teach skills — the output. Neurologically-focused chiropractic cares for the layer underneath: the brain-to-body connection those skills have to travel on. If that layer isn’t addressed, the work cannot land as well.
Output · Movement
Physical therapy
Strength, gait, balance, posture, range of motion. PT trains the body to move with more control.
Output · Language
Speech therapy
Articulation, language, oral-motor, feeding. Speech builds the words and the mouth’s coordination.
Input · Nervous system
Innate Family Chiropractic
If a child’s nervous system is locked in fight-or-flight — subluxation, dysautonomia, an overwhelmed vagus nerve — the brain is busy surviving. Learning, digesting, sleeping, and connecting get pushed aside. That is not a motivation problem. It is a wiring problem.
We locate that interference with INSiGHT scans and use gentle, specific adjustments to restore communication. We do not replace your therapy team. We make the work they’re already doing more effective.
- Therapies teach skills. We clear the pathway those skills travel on.
- If the nervous system isn’t corrected, OT, PT, and speech cannot be as effective.
- Most of our families keep their therapy team — they just stop skipping the layer underneath.
INSiGHT technology
We don’t guess. We scan.
You can’t feel subluxation the way you feel a headache. Traditional imaging shows bone — not function. INSiGHT is a suite of three non-invasive, radiation-free assessments that measure how the nervous system is actually performing. Safe from day one of life. No needles. No X-rays. No fear.
Every $67 pediatric exam includes the full scan set. Then we sit with you and walk through it in plain language. Most parents tell us this is the first time anyone has shown them what’s happening underneath the symptoms.
Surface EMG
Muscle tension along the spine
Shows where the nervous system is overworking — uneven tightening, compensation, chronic holding patterns you can’t see in a mirror.
Thermal scan
Autonomic balance
Temperature shifts along the spine flag fight-or-flight vs rest-and-digest. This is how we see vagus nerve stress in infants and kids who “look fine.”
Heart rate variability
Capacity to adapt
HRV tells us how flexible the system is under load. Low variability often tracks with anxiety, poor sleep, and kids who can’t downshift.
New patients
The $67 pediatric exam
A full consult and INSiGHT neurological assessment — the same technology we use with every family in the practice. Adjustments, if recommended, use no more pressure than checking a peach. No cracking. No forcing. No fear.
- 01
Parent consult
Birth history, therapies you’re already in, sleep, behavior, feeding, what you’ve tried. We listen before we look.
- 02
INSiGHT scans
Three painless scans. Infants can stay in your arms. Older kids sit or lie on the table. A few minutes. No radiation.
- 03
Findings, in plain language
We walk the scans with you. If care is a fit, you’ll know exactly why. If it isn’t, you still leave with answers.
How it can show up
From colic to classroom
These are not diagnoses we “treat.” They are how a stressed nervous system can look from the outside. We work on the system underneath.
- Colic & fussiness
- Reflux & spit-up
- Latch & tongue tie
- Torticollis
- Ear infections
- Sleep struggles
- Constipation
- Always sick
- ADHD & focus
- Sensory overload
- Autism support
- Anxiety & meltdowns
- Speech delay
- Feeding challenges
Google reviews
Families who stopped guessing.
A selection of recent Google reviews for Innate Family Chiropractic in Pasadena. 5.0 from families who brought us their kids — and stayed.
“Before coming to Innate, our son had a very high-energy nervous system and struggled with focus and emotional regulation. We were even being advised to consider medication. Since starting care, he regulates his emotions more effectively and focuses much better in school. His confidence has grown so much. We truly believe things will continue to get even better.”
“As a baby, our son struggled with asthma. After consistent care, we started seeing major improvements — and now he has no asthma symptoms at all. We are so grateful for Innate Family Chiropractic.”
“My wife and kids have been getting adjusted by Dr. Chris and Dr. Adana weekly and it makes a huge difference. We see the difference in mood, sleep, and energy, as well as overall well-being.”
“Our whole family has had such a great experience. Both Dr. Chris and Dr. Adana are incredibly knowledgeable, professional, and genuinely care. They take the time to listen, explain things clearly, and really understand what each of us needs. From the moment we walk in, we feel comfortable and cared for.”
“Choosing Innate was easy. They are holistically supporting not just our whole bodies, but our whole families. I feel respected and valued by how they so thoughtfully educate us on the hows and whys. You can feel the intention and care from the moment you walk through the door. It's a unique gem.”
“If you want doctors you can trust to care for your children, Innate Family is the place. My wife and I, along with our baby girl, love to go in regularly as a family. The culture is second to none.”
Your doctors
Dr. Chris & Dr. Adana Vargas
A husband-and-wife team. They met at Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles, opened in Pasadena in 2010, and have been a family practice ever since — voted Best Chiropractor in Pasadena by Pasadena Weekly readers since 2012.
Both are ICPA certified, Webster certified for pregnancy, and hold additional pediatric certification through the National Wellness Foundation. They are PX Docs certified. Pediatric care is not a side offering. It is the work.
Dr. Adana adjusted their own daughter six hours after she was born. That is the standard of gentleness you’ll feel in this office.
- ICPA Pediatric Certified
- Webster Certified
- National Wellness Foundation Pediatric Certification
- PX Docs Certified
104 N Madison Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101
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Hold your child’s $67 exam.
A pediatric consultation and full INSiGHT nervous system scans for $67. We’ll look at the fundamental layer — then tell you honestly whether this belongs next to the therapies you already have. If that layer isn’t addressed, OT, PT, and speech cannot be as effective.
- (626) 344-9355
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- 104 N Madison Ave
Pasadena, CA
Mon, Tue & Thu · 9:00–12:30 · 2:30–5:30
Wednesday · 3:30–5:30
Fri, Sat & Sun · Closed