Many people bring their children for regular chiropractic care. Is it safe?
Ear infections, allergies, bed-wetting, acid reflux, sleep issues, leg aches, and many other childhood complaints have been shown to improve dramatically with natural, non-drug methods.
Rather than treating the symptoms with another antibiotic, decongestants, antacids, or other medications, we will determine the underlying causes of the problems.
Here are five benefits of chiropractic care for your children.
1. Supports the Immune System
Sick season can be rough for both parents and children alike. It seems like the runny noses, coughs, and fevers just won’t go away. Chiropractic care is a great way to support a child’s immune system so that they can better fight off sickness.
Chiropractic care has been known to not only decrease sickness time, but also prevent sickness before it can flare up, things like runny noses, coughs, and fevers. If stomach problems are the issue, chiropractic care can improve digestion, relieve constipation and alleviate reflux to decrease stomach pain and problems that children often complain of.
2. Improves Sleep
Sleep is critical to your kids’ development. Children need good sleep to not only function during the day, but also to grow physically and emotionally. Spinal misalignments cause pain and can cause difficulty in sleeping at night. It causes tight muscles that cause pain. Spinal misalignments can also be the root cause of bedwetting with makes sleeping through the night nearly impossible.
Gentle chiropractic adjustments can remove misalignments and nerve interference so children can get the recommended amount of sleep.
3. Improved Behavior
Stress affects children both physically and emotionally. Children that experience stress can act out because they know no other way to cope. Chiropractic care is one of a natural way to alleviate stress, and will improve children’s moods and behavior.
4. Improved Brain Development
Children with ADD or ADHD may have spinal misalignments that exacerbate these disorders. Chiropractic care helps children concentrate and focus better throughout the day so they don’t feel so frustrated at school. Adjustments will release pressure put on the spine, bones, and joints to improve a child’s neural brain development.
5. Benefits Infants During the Early Stages of Development
During the first few months of development, many babies may suffer from colic. They may also struggle to breastfeed or experience reflux that can keep them from sleeping well. Moms may feel at a loss of how to help their new baby. That’s where pediatric chiropractic care comes in.
Babies have a fragile spine that can get misaligned at the slightest touch, especially after delivery and traveling through the birth canal. Spinal misalignments in infants may be the root cause of such issues as colic, trouble latching, or reflux. Pediatric chiropractic care can remove these misalignments to help ease troubles that come with infancy. Colic is thought to be caused by digestion issues while trouble latching could be caused by tight muscles in the neck and back. Chiropractic can correct both these issues so that both mom and baby can thrive during this time.
With a consultation and examination, our doctors will help you understand the underlying causes of childhood ailments and the solutions chiropractic care can offer.
Watch this video for great information about kids and chiropractic care:
Often childhood conditions may be related to spinal misalignments caused by birth or other falls or injuries. These misalignments impact the nervous system which can negatively affect other systems (digestive, immune, respiratory, etc.).
Correction of the misalignments brings the system back into balance.
Watch this video of a testimony that helped this little boy avoid a permanent IV of antibiotics for his chronic ear infections. His whole life turned around and he’s happy, healthy, and sleeping through the night, with an easy bedtime routine!
