Chiropractic care is gentle, very safe for children, and it’s necessary.
Many spinal problems that I see in adults first start between zero to five years old. The causes include in-utero position (the position the baby is in inside the womb), delivery-related birth traumas, and a whole host of post-delivery traumas that kids are prone to. This is a crucial period of life where the nervous system is forming, which is the control center that regulates the coordination and maturation of all the body systems. Pressure on that system occurs when kids have spinal misalignments, and it greatly hinders the child’s ability to thrive. Children may or may not have pain, depending on which nerve fibers are affected, but it can be very difficult to tell what the child is experiencing, especially in infants and toddlers. For this reason, most infants and toddlers get diagnosed with “colic”, which is a very general diagnosis.
A child’s developing body requires the coordination of a properly-functioning nervous system, and a specific chiropractic adjustment can relieve a ton of stress from your child’s body, allowing it to flourish. Everything in the body as it’s developing needs the coordination of the nervous system. Chiropractic adjustments for kids are very safe and gentle, and kids usually don’t need as much care because they don’t have a long history of structural problems, arthritis, and spinal decay.
“Reposition the vertebra to take pressure off of the nerve and you will get sick people well.” – Clarence Gonstead