Look Beyond the Behavior This School Year
What if anxiety, difficult mornings, focus challenges, sensory overwhelm, and after-school meltdowns are signs of a nervous system working too hard to adapt?
Please arrive by 6:45 PM. The webinar begins promptly at 7:00 PM.
When School Feels Overwhelming, the Struggle Rarely Stays in One Place
A teacher may see inattention or refusal. A therapist may recognize sensory overload. A pediatrician or airway provider may be addressing developmental, sleep, or breathing concerns. At home, parents see the child finally fall apart.
Before School
Anxiety, stomachaches, stalling, shutdowns, and mornings that feel like a battle.
During the Day
Difficulty focusing, transitioning, adapting to change, or managing sensory demands.
After School
Exhaustion, homework conflict, emotional outbursts, or meltdowns after holding it together.
Regulation Changes What a Child Can Access
Dr. Tony will explain the autonomic nervous system using a simple gas-pedal and brake-pedal framework—how children move between activation and calm, and what may happen when the stress response stays switched on.
Activation, alertness, protection, fight-or-flight, and rapid reaction.
Calm, recovery, connection, flexibility, and the ability to adapt.
What We’ll Explore Together
The presentation offers a neurologically focused chiropractic perspective that can add another lens to the work already happening in healthcare, therapy, airway care, and education.
Why transitions demand executive function, cognitive flexibility, and a sense of safety.
How stress may affect attention, sensory processing, behavior, and emotional regulation.
Why some children hold themselves together at school and release everything at home.
What may be missing when rewards, consequences, charts, and accommodations are not enough.
Practical support involving predictability, movement, sleep, and adult co-regulation.
How neurologically focused pediatric chiropractic approaches nervous-system function.
Meet Your Webinar Presenter and In-Person Q&A Host
Dr. Tony Ebel will present the live webinar. Dr. Peter Martinez will host the Austin watch party and lead the in-person conversation and Q&A afterward.
Dr. Tony Ebel
Dr. Tony Ebel is a pediatric chiropractor and family health educator with 20 years of clinical experience. He serves as the lead writer and educational guide for PX Docs and will present Breaking the Cycle of School Year Struggles.
Dr. Peter Martinez, DC
Dr. Peter Martinez is the owner of River City Wellness and Alive and Free Chiropractic. For eight years, he has cared for children and families throughout the Austin community with a focus on helping kids’ nervous systems become more regulated, resilient, and adaptable.
His work centers on understanding how early stress, sensory overload, sleep challenges, and developmental demands can shape the way a child experiences school, home, and everyday life.
After Dr. Tony’s webinar, Dr. Peter will lead the in-person discussion and Q&A—connecting the presentation to the questions pediatric providers, educators, and Austin families encounter every day.
The Webinar Starts the Conversation. The Room Makes It Collaborative.
No single profession sees the entire child—and no single profession has to support that child alone.
Hear Another Lens
Consider a nervous-system-focused framework alongside your own clinical, therapeutic, or educational experience.
Ask Better Questions
Join a respectful discussion where curiosity is welcome and automatic agreement is not expected.
Build Local Connections
Meet Austin professionals who care about creating clearer, more coordinated support for children and families.
Watch Party Details
7:00 PM CT
- Arrival and professional connection
- Live webinar presented by Dr. Tony Ebel
- In-person discussion and Q&A led by Dr. Peter Martinez, DC
Southeast Austin
8708 S. Congress Ave, Suite 570
Austin, TX 78745
Save Your Seat at the Watch Party
Complete the registration form so the River City Wellness team can prepare for your arrival and send any important event updates.
- Free in-person attendance
- Live webinar presented by Dr. Tony Ebel
- In-person discussion and Q&A led by Dr. Peter Martinez
- Opportunity to connect across disciplines
Need to watch from home?
Register through the official PX Docs webinar page.
This event is for educational and informational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical, therapeutic, chiropractic, or educational evaluation. Participation does not imply endorsement of every idea or approach presented.