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Chiro-Kids


Kids may benefits from chiropractic too! Even children with no pain or symptoms may receive "wellness" benefits from regular chiropractic visits. There is nowadays a greater emphasis towards changing our approach to better health care delivery. One of the main shifts is away from crisis care and toward prevention and maintenance care. A term you will be hearing a lot in our practice is "wellness care." Wellness care is taking care of people while they have no symptoms so that they don't get sick.

The best people to get started with wellness care are kids. Children go through so many changes as they grow. All of the major systems go through countless developmental stages. The nerve system is the first to develop and controls all the others. It is therefore very important to have as little interference as possible with the nerve system in the growing child. Our experience at Chiro-Works is that the children that receive regular Chiropractic care have a much better immune response, are far more active and seem to show excellent concentration at school.

Research has shown that one of the worst interferences with the nerve system is a vertebral subluxation, a misalignment of the spine which results in pressure on the nerve system. Subluxations may occur very early in life. One of the first and most traumatic things to happen to the spine is the birth process. Especially in a difficult delivery, the trauma to the cervical bones can be dramatic.

As children begin to walk, they take hundreds of falls. In the early years they are always falling off bikes, out of trees, etc. All of these small traumas add up and eventually start to affect the spine.

How many of you have taken young children to have their teeth or their eyes checked? Most of you probably have. Now how many of you have taken your child to a chiropractor to have his or her spine checked? If you never have, I wonder why not? It’s probably because you didn’t know that you should. People will think nothing of having braces put on their kid's teeth and spending thousands of dollars just so they have straight teeth.

The research regarding the effect of chiropractic care on kids is amazing. A 1989 study compared 200 children who had seen paediatricians with 200 children who had been under chiropractic care, it showed that the health of the children who had seen chiropractors was notably superior to that of children brought up under standard medical care. The chiropractic children, for example, had fewer ear infections, allergies, and cases of tonsillitis, and therefore required less medicine. Chiropractic has shown also to be very effective for the babies with Infantile colic. Though chiropractic care is not a cure for any disease it does help the body function more efficiently and promotes better health by reducing interference to the Nerve system. It has been proven that adjusting the spine to relieve nerve pressure has a direct effect on the immune system. It also makes sense that a better functioning nerve system makes for a better functioning body as a whole.

In conclusion, chiropractic has been shown through research to be an excellent choice for wellness care. Your children deserve to have their full potential utilized as they grow. Chiropractic care is a very important part of your children's health care. Please make an appointment to have your child's spine checked by a chiropractor on a regular basis. Dr. Corin has helped numerous children and infants as young as 2 days old. We can check your child's spine today to make sure your child is in great shape!

Chiropractic for Infants

Dr. Alan Corin recommends that babies should be checked and adjusted as soon as possible after birth to help alleviate spinal problems and nerve distress arising from constraint or abnormal positioning in the uterus, from the journey through the birth canal, or during the delivery process itself.

Chiropractic adjustments for infants and children differ significantly from those performed on adults. Infant adjustments are very gentle.

An incredible 65% of neurological development (development of the brain and nervous system) occurs in a child’s first year of life. It is therefore imperative to ensure that infants have every opportunity to maximise their nerve function during this critical period.

Indications your baby may need to see a Chiropractor.

Healthier Infants & Babies

You do everything to ensure your baby's health: during pregnancy you eat right; you avoid drugs, cigarettes and alcohol (even aspirin has been shown to cause problems in pregnancy); and you take childbirth classes, so you may have a natural, drug-free birth. After the baby arrives, you breastfeed knowing that is the superior form of nutrition; you do everything you can to make sure your baby is healthy-but have you had their spine checked? A chiropractic spinal check-up can ensure a healthier baby, one with higher resistance to disease and a healthier nervous system.

Birth Trauma - The First Subluxation

The birth process... is potentially a traumatic, crippling event... mechanical stress imposed by obstetrical manipulation-even the application of standard orthodox procedures may prove intolerable to the foetus. The view has bean expressed clinically that most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological...
"With the birth process becoming more and more an intervening procedure ... the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the child's future,"
late Larry Webster, D.C., of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association

The Spine & Infant Health

Of a random group of 1,250 babies examined 5 days after birth, 211 suffered from vomiting, hyperactivity and sleeplessness spinal abnormalities were found in 95% of this group. Spinal adjustment "frequently resulted in immediate quieting, cessation of crying, muscular relaxation and sleepiness." The authors noted that an unhealthy spine causes "many clinical features from central motor impairment to lower resistance to infections-especially ear, nose and throat infections."

Recent research(May 09) reporting on infants with colic and acid reflux reveals that chiropractic may play an important role in helping resolve these conditions. “Research is revealing that injuries to the upper part of the neck may be a factor in a number of disorders. These injuries lead to misalignments in the neck that may compress the spinal cord and other nerve structures in the neck. This compression leads to nerve interference and can result in a host of disorders such as colic and acid reflux” stated Dr. Erin Elster the author of the study.

“It makes a lot of sense when you think about it” stated Dr. Matthew McCoy a chiropractor, public health researcher and editor of the journal that published the study, “If you damage or compress the neurological structures in the neck this can have far reaching implications on the functioning of the body. Through research like Dr. Elster’s we are finding that correcting the misalignments associated with these injuries reduces the nerve compression and people improve. In this study it was infants suffering from colic and acid reflux.”

Ordinarily infants suffering from colic and acid reflux may be given medications that in many cases have not been fully studied in children. Finding the cause of the colic or reflux is a much better strategy. One such cause is thought to be spinal misalignments, termed vertebral subluxations by chiropractors, which result in structural and neurological interference to the spine and nerve system. It is this interference that may cause symptoms such as those seen in this study and chiropractors correct or reduce this interference.

In the study, sixteen infants with colic or acid reflux were evaluated and cared for using protocols developed to correct upper neck subluxations. Histories of birth trauma were reported in 10 cases; upper cervical subluxations were found in all 16 cases; and 100% of the cases responded to chiropractic care with symptoms completely resolved. According to Dr. Elster, these results suggest a link between birth trauma, upper cervical injury, and the onset of colic and acid reflux. Correcting the injury to the upper cervical spine through the use of specific chiropractic adjustments appears to eliminate colic and acid reflux. The author calls for further study in a controlled environment with larger sample sizes.


In another study, of 1093 newborns checked, 298 had upper neck stress and early signs of scoliosis.

For over a hundred years, doctors of chiropractic have observed often dramatic responses from some infants after a chiropractic spinal adjustment with conditions as varied as Frb's palsy, in which an arm is limp and undeveloped, unbalanced facial and skull symmetry, foot inversion, colic, torticollis (twisted neck), "nervousness," and ear, nose and throat infections.

When Does A Baby Need a Spinal Checkup? According to chiropractic pediatric specialist, Larry Webster, D.C., there are six times in a baby's first year of life when spinal examinations are especially important:

A healthier spine can improve your life.

 

Conclusion

 

"Our children deserve to be treated naturally, not with dangerous chemical drugs and unproven surgeries," says Bobby Doscher, D.C., director of Oklahaven Children's Center, which is beginning its fourth decade helping indigent children with physical, neurological and emotional disabilities through drug-free chiropractic care.

Do all you can to give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. That includes childbirth without violence, avoidance of drugs and medical procedures (except in emergencies) and breastfeeding. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, ears checked-why not their spine?

Postscript

No matter what disease or condition you have, you can benefit from a healthy spine. Spinal health can be as important for your overall healing as proper nutrition. Are you and your family carrying the vertebral subluxation complex in your spines? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.

Among the many things contributing to your health: the quality of the air, food and water you take in; how you handle emotional stress; your inherited weaknesses and strengths; your use of drugs; exercise; and relaxation-a healthy spine is absolutely essential. In some people it is a major factor and can make the difference between a life of health, strength and vitality or a life of disease, weakness and disability.

A healthy spine can improve your life-see your chiropractor for periodic spinal checkups.