Chiropractic Care for All Stages of Life
Most people assume chiropractic care is only for adults who have back issues. The truth is that chiropractic care is useful for people of all ages and stages of life.
From babies to seniors, no one is too old or young to get huge benefits from chiropractic care. Chiropractic care restores and helps maintain the health of the body’s nervous system. When there is interference, it can cause problems anywhere in the body, not just in the neck and back).
When the spine is out of alignment, it puts pressure on the nervous system. This misalignment not only affects the way the body functions, it can also cause pain due to pinched, irritated, and compressed nerves.
Chiropractic care is a proven method to affect overall nervous system function and health without the need for surgery, invasive procedures or medications.
Chiropractic Care During Pregnancy
Most people believe that they cannot get adjusted while pregnant, but it is actually really beneficial to be adjusted all the way through pregnancy and right up to when labor begins.
Chiropractic care balances the pelvis and lower back area. This will give the baby the best chance to move into the correct position for birth.
Chiropractic care decreases the chance of a baby being born breech, and reduces the possibility of a cesarian section.
It’s been proven that women who are adjusted tend to have an easier, quicker labor.
According to the National Library of Medicine, “Chiropractic care has typically included the care of pregnant patients to assure the patient a comfortable pregnancy and to help facilitate an uncomplicated labor and delivery.”
The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association concurs, recommending that women receive chiropractic throughout pregnancy to “establish balance and optimize the room a baby has for development throughout pregnancy.”
There are many advantages to being adjusted while pregnant. Chiropractic can help manage symptoms of nausea, relieve pain, and maximize overall health during pregnancy. Childbirth can be a difficult and painful process, and chiropractic can help make that process run more smoothly.
Chiropractic for Infants and Babies
Labor is without a doubt a strenuous process. It takes a tremendous amount of force to deliver a baby, and pulling and twisting are often involved. This causes trauma in newborns.
This trauma causes “subluxations”, or misalignments of the vertebrae. This causes interference in nerve signals, which can impair in infant’s health from their very first breath.
These problems persist and can leave the baby with symptoms such as colic, reflux, torticollis, constipation, fussiness, and gassiness. We recommend that an infant is examined early on to check for these misalignments so that health problems can be avoided and or resolved.
Adjustments on babies are not like the adjustments performed on adults; they are incredibly gentle. It does not take much force (sometimes a gentle push or massage with a finger), to manipulate a baby’s spine. Adjustments are painless, quick and non-invasive. Adjustments can also help with sleeping problems in infants and babies. Read an article written by a patient about her son avoiding tubes in his ears due to a gentle adjustment.
Chiropractic for Toddlers and Young children.
Everyone knows that toddlers and young kids experience falls and bumps constantly. Toddlers will live through milestones such as learning to walk that will sometimes hold a risk of mild to severe injury, then after reaching all of their significant milestones, young children will use their newly found abilities to explore the world around them. The average two-year-old falls 38 times a day. It is estimated that before the age of 7, a child will fall around 2,500 times.
After the age of 7, kids activities will become more and more physically demanding. Playing outside on playground equipment with friends, any type of organized sport, and just plain goofing around often does result in injuries. When they happen, chiropractic adjustments will help their recovery process go faster and help avoid reinjury in the future.
Other conditions that chiropractic can help with include chronic bed wetting, asthma, allergies, chronic colds, ear infections, ADD, and constipation.
Kids start walking around school with heavy backpacks at an early age. As a parent you should consider how to minimize the stress on their bodies.
Chiropractic for Tweens and Teens
Teenagers take on a lot of stress, not just physically, but also mentally.
Many of these teens also participate in sports that include vigorous training and practice schedules. Students that do not play sports will sometimes spend their evenings using electronic devices, which causes stress that is not easy to see. According to a study cited by Scientific Reports, hunching over a phone sends a signal to the body that it needs to adapt, and the body’s response is bone spurs. It’s so common it’s often referred to as “horns.”
All these things are harmful to a teen’s developing body, especially during puberty (which causes other stresses mentally and physically). Dislocations in the spine are inevitable. Chiropractic care will help correct these and keep the child’s growing body in its best condition.
Chiropractic for Young Adults to Middle-Age
This is when careers and families begin to take priority. This often causes people to neglect their own health and personal needs.
Adults start experiencing neck or back pain due to stress, injury, and illness. Whatever the reason, chiropractic adjustments are a known way to alleviate the pain. Chiropractic also helps adults who are experiencing other symptoms such as headaches, sleeplessness, knee pain or shoulder pain to name a few.
Even when there is no pain present, regular adjustments are extremely beneficial. Once a week is optimal, but any is better than none. Adjustments help maintain a healthy body, and keep the immune system boosted.
Chiropractic for Active Adults
Adjustments are even more important for adults who are involved in sports and/or exercise regularly. Adjustments right before exercising are seen to be extremely beneficial because when the spine is manipulated, all the muscles around it are balanced and misalignments are corrected. Proper communication is restored between the central nervous system and the rest of the body, which means it can function and move better.
Adjustments also relax muscles and increase flexibility, decreasing the chance of injury and making a workout more effective. If injury does occur, chiropractic treatment can help alleviate pain and expedite the recovery process.
Chiropractic for Seniors
An aging body is something none of us can avoid. However, aging does not have to mean being sedentary, you can have an active lifestyle! Many senior citizens live with poor mobility and intense pain that are treated with prescription medications. With regular exercise and chiropractic care, this does not have to be a reality for people as they grow older! Read this amazing testimony about one of our senior patients. Senior citizens are often more prone to accidents and falls. If they keep their body in alignment, they are much less likely to fall.
Regular chiropractic adjustments help seniors keep their body’s in shape and eliminate a lot of unnecessary pain. If there is an accident or fall, chiropractic adjustments realign the spine and reduce the amount of pain as they heal.
If a senior patient is experiencing pain from a chronic condition, adjustments are a medication-free way to manage this pain. In addition to pain management, chiropractic adjustments can also maximize the function of the nervous and immune systems to seniors overall health. When combined with proper diet and mild exercise, chiropractic care helps keep the “golden years” feeling golden and allow a person to live life more comfortably as they age.
It is never too late to start getting adjusted!
No one is too young or old to benefit from chiropractic care, The bottom line is, pain or no pain, consider regular chiropractic adjustments, you will be surprised by all of the ways improves your quality of life.
Contact us to schedule an appointment. We look forward to seeing you!
