Kids and Chiropractic
Why let your children grow up to develop all the aches and pains you have? If chiropractors keep young spines healthy, your children will have superior health! 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? People will think nothing of having braces put on their kid’s teeth and spending thousands of dollars just so they have straight teeth, but they will never have their spine or nervous system checked.
Traditionally, chiropractors have been known for relieving back pain for adults. The role of children and chiropractic has been relatively non-existent. The nervous system, housed by the spine, is the master controller in our body. It controls every cell, tissue, muscle, and organ in your body at all times! If your child’s nervous system is not working properly, the messages from the brain to all body parts may be impaired. This interrupts the normal, healthy actions and functions of the body. These impairments are called “Subluxations”. A chiropractor gently adjusts subluxations to restore balance in the body. This allows the healing power in the body to flow through the nervous system properly again, restoring health and life to your child’s body!
Many pediatric visits to the chiropractor are due to ear infections, colic, reflux, bedwetting, asthma, allergies, neck and back pain, headaches, and attention problems. Chiropractic does not treat specific symptoms, but instead helps your child’s body adapt to the stressors put on their body. After one adjustment, the immune system increases by 7 times for a few hours after the adjustment. What a side effect!
Pediatric chiropractors are trained to detect, correct and prevent subluxations in children. The most important time to get your child adjusted is directly after birth. The first stressor to a fetus is the in-utero position and then during the birth process which is more traumatic for some than others.
Our children (Callyn, 8 and Gavin, 5) are healthy children that haven’t relied on the use of antibiotics, medications, vaccinations, or surgery. They do not ingest Tylenol, aspirin, cough syrup, antibiotics, or any other pills or potions. Chiropractic and a healthy lifestyle have made their bodies and immune systems strong.
