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A Whole-Child Path Forward
Wherever your family is on this journey - whether you are just beginning or have pursued biomedical, functional, or integrative care for years—our work will generally begin with QIGONG SENSORY THERAPY (QST).
QST provides the foundation while we await your child’s IntellxxDNA results and begin appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes. The results then guide a more individualized PRESCISION MEDICINE plan with complementary therapies added thoughtfully according to your child’s needs.
What is QST?
Qigong Sensory Therapy (QST) is a gentle, touch-based therapy delivered by parents in the comfort of their own home. Certified QST practitioners teach and support parents as they learn the massage and become increasingly attuned to their child.
Within weeks, parents may begin to observe improvements in eye contact, reciprocal communication, digestion, and sleep. Children may become more receptive to touch, more aware of their bodies, and more engaged with the world around them. These changes can strengthen the parent–child bond, supporting the foundation for healthy social, emotional, and behavioral development—and the emergence of meaningful, connected relationships.
QST is rooted in medical qigong, an approximately 3,000-year-old healing practice within Classical Chinese Medicine. It recognizes the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit—and seeks to support the whole child.
QST Research at a Glance
Fifteen years of clinical research have resulted in 21 published studies, including four randomized controlled trials.
After five months of QST, children with autism experienced a:
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34% improvement in self-regulation
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32% improvement in autistic behaviors
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49% improvement in tactile responsiveness
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38% improvement in sensory abnormalities
Parents experienced a:
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44% reduction in parenting stress
During the first year of therapy, 100% of participating parents reported improvement in the parent–child bond.
What is Precision Medicine?
Discover how your child's genes are interacting with our modern day environment and creating health or dis-ease.
Every child is biologically unique. Precision medicine looks beyond a diagnosis to understand how a child’s genetics, nutrition, environment, lifestyle, and individual biology may be interacting to influence their health and development.
By bringing together your child’s history, symptoms, laboratory findings, environmental exposures, and genomic information, we can identify potentially modifiable factors and create a plan tailored specifically for your child.
IntellxxDNA is used as a Clinical Decision Support Tool that reveals your child's unique, genomic roadmap and identifies specific, actionable steps that allow us to optimize your child's health.
Complementary
Resources & Referrals
QST and precision medicine can take a child’s health and development to an entirely new level. Yet even after meaningful progress has been made, there may be more to understand and address.
As part of Dr. Pakhi's commitment to leaving no stone unturned, she recommends other complementary therapies, connects families to qualified practitioners and carefully selects resources that may help your child continue to move forward.
Although these services are not provided directly through this practice, they may become an important part of a thoughtful, whole-child plan.
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