Chiropractic Care for Kids
Many people see chiropractic care as purely for adults but this is simply not the case. Chiropractic care for children offers your family a solid foundation for wellness.Throughout pregnancy, birth, and childhood, the chiropractic lifestyle offers choices and benefits for your greater health and well-being. More and more parents are seeking chiropractic care for their children. Many spinal problems seen in adults began as early as birth. Even so called “natural” birthing methods can stress an infant’s spine and developing nerve system. The resulting irritation to the nerve system caused by spinal and cranial misalignment can be the cause of many newborn health complaints. Colic, breathing problems, nursing difficulties, sleep disturbances, allergic reactions and chronic infections can often be traced to nerve system stress. Since significant spinal trauma can occur at birth, many parents have their newborns checked right away. As the infant grows, learning to hold up the head, sit, crawl and walk are all activities that affect spinal alignment and are important times to have a child checked by a D.C. As your child begins to participate in regular childhood activities like skating or riding a bike, small yet significant spinal misalignments. If neglected, the injuries during this period of rapid growth may lead to more serious problems later in life. Subtle trauma throughout childhood will affect the future development of the spine leading to impaired nervous system function. Any interference to the vital nerve system will adversely affect the body’s ability to function at its best. Parents seek care for conditions such as colic, ear infections, asthma, allergies and headaches because they have heard from other parents that chiropractic care can help.
A Doctor of Chiropractic care will take a case history and perform a chiropractic exam to determine if spinal misalignments exist. Chiropractic adjusting procedures are modified to fit a child’s size, weight, and unique spinal condition. They are both gentle and specific to the child’s developing spinal structures. Most parents report that their children enjoy their chiropractic adjustments and look forward to subsequent visits. They also report that their children experience a greater level of health while under regular chiropractic care. Your child’s chiropractic experience will be much different than that of your own.
The most important thing to understand that chiropractic is not a treatment for disease. It’s purpose is to reduce spinal nerve stress, a serious and often painless condition most children (and adults) have in their bodies. Spinal nerve stress interferes with the proper functioning of the nervous system, can weaken internal organs and organ systems, lower resistance, reduce healing potential and set the stage for sickness and disorders of all kinds. When a chiropractor frees the nervous system from spinal stress, the healing power of the body is unleashed: the immune system functions more efficiently, resistance to disease increases, and your child’s body functions more efficiently. Your child can respond to internal and external environmental stresses such as germs, changes in temperature, humidity, toxins, pollen and all the other stresses he/she comes in contact with more efficiently. So although children with diseases are often brought to the chiropractor, the chiropractor is not treating their diseases but is instead freeing them of spinal nerve stress, thus permitting their body’s natural healing potential to function at its best.
So why does your child need to see a chiropractor? The answer is simple, children have spines and a nervous system just like adults and you want to make sure they are taking good care of it especially during the developmental years.
Sources:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/71159-benefits-chiropractic-care-kids/
http://icpa4kids.org/About-the-ICPA/why-chiropractic-for-children.html
http://icpa4kids.org/Wellness-Articles/why-should-children-have-chiropractic-care/Page-2.html
http://icpa4kids.org/Wellness-Articles/what-can-chiropractic-do-for-your-child/How-Is-Spinal-Stress-Caused.html
http://www.onelovechiropractic.com/top-5-reasons-to-take-your-child-to-the-chiropractor
