Providing You Quality Care For Exceptional Results Home Page Contact Us What Is It? Warning Signs Philosophy What To Expect? A Personal Story Children Events/ Promotions FAQ's Massage Therapy New Patient Form HIPAA Act     Back To Top   Children And Chiropractic       Parents who often appreciate the importance of checkups for their child's teeth, hearing, eyes, ears, nose and throat draw a blank when it comes to the spine. A Spinal checkup could be one of the most important of your child's life! Why? In addition to the stress of childbirth, the constant jumping, falling, running and bumping of a normal childhood often causes vertebral subluxations, with serious health consequences if uncorrected. A newborn's spine may be subject to abnormal stress as a result of pulling on the head during delivery, and especially with difficult births such as forcepts, breech, c-section, obstetrical error or abnormal in-utero position during the last trimester. Such spinal stress can lead to many health problems such as colic, croup, constipation, ear infections, cough and congestion which can later develop into allergies, asthma, bronchitis, frequent colds, bedwetting, headaches, learning disorders, scoliosis, growing pains, and many others. For over a hundred years, doctors of chiropractic have observed often dramatic resonses from some infants after a chiropractic spinal adjustment with conditions as varied as Erb's Palsy (in which an arm is limp and undeveloped), unbalanced facial and skull symmetry, foot inversion, torticollis (twisted neck), "nervousness," colic, and ear, nose and throat infections. Today we find more parents bringing their children to doctors of chiropractic for spinal checkups. Correction of vertebral subluxations in children's spines can have a powerful effect on many aspects of their lives. With a healthy spinal column, a child's body can better deal with, and avoid, the sore throats, ear infections, flues, fevers, stomachaches, measles, mumps and the hundred-and-one other problems that often make up young life. Without chiropractic care, most children will live in continued sickness, condemned to a life of taking medicines and perhaps even surgery.