Dr. Jayla Preston grew up under chiropractic care — literally. Her father, Dr. Tom Preston, was a chiropractor in the North Bay area when she and her four sisters were kids in the 2000s. She was adjusted from birth. Today she’s the chiropractor caring for the next generation of North Bay families, with a particular focus on infants, children, and pregnant women.
Dr. Jayla joined Landriault Chiropractic Health Centre in September 2020 after graduating from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, and has spent the past five-plus years building what she’s wanted from the start: to be the chiropractor in North Bay known for prenatal and pediatric care. She has earned that reputation organically — local moms in the area’s largest parenting Facebook group regularly tag her name when other mothers ask for a chiropractor recommendation, most of them women she’s never met.
How Dr. Jayla Found Chiropractic
She didn’t tell her family she wanted to be a chiropractor until her third year of undergrad. Growing up with a chiropractor for a father, she’d known the work intimately, but worried that saying it out loud would build expectations she couldn’t take back if she changed her mind. She fell in love with biology and kinesiology in high school, kept moving through the sciences at Laurentian University, and eventually called her dad to tell him she was applying to chiropractic school. She got in after three years of undergraduate study and didn’t return to finish her degree.
Education & Training
Dr. Jayla holds a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, earned in 2020. Her undergraduate studies were in biological and kinesiological sciences at Laurentian University. She is licensed to practice chiropractic in Ontario by the College of Chiropractors of Ontario. She adjusts using Diversified, Thompson, and Torque Release techniques, with the Arthrostim instrument for infants and younger children — a tool the kids in the office have nicknamed the “monster truck wheels.” She is trained in the assessment of functional oral and tongue ties in infants.
Her Approach to Pediatric & Prenatal Care
Her clinical priority for her youngest patients is foundational. The nervous system develops more during the first two years of life than at any other stage, and her goal for infants and toddlers is to support that development with a healthy, well-functioning spine and nervous system, rather than waiting for symptoms to appear. For pregnant women, her message is more direct: pregnancy doesn’t have to be uncomfortable, and most of the discomfort moms accept as inevitable can be addressed with the right care started early enough.
