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Chiropractic And Your Children "Chiropractic care for your children? Why? His
Back doesn't hurt." 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
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the constant jumping, falling, running and bumping of a normal childhood
often cause vertebral subluxations, with serious health consequences if
uncorrected.
A newborn's spine may be subject to abnormal stress as a result of a
difficult birth, a breech presentation, caesarean birth, obstetrical
error or abnormal in-utero position during the last trimester. Such
spinal stress can lead to many health problems, as demonstrated in a
paper from the European Medical Journal, Manuelle Medizin, describing
five-day-old infants with vertebral subluxations:
"The clinical picture ranges from central motor impairment and
development [sleeplessness, incoordination, seizures]
through...impairments of vegetative regulatory systems [vomiting,
digestive problems, eliminating problems], to lowered resistance to
infections, especially to ear-nose-and-throat infections."
The article's author, a medical doctor, recommends
chiropractic:
"[Spinal adjustment] frequently results in immediate cessation of crying,
muscular relaxation and sleepiness...chiropractic can often bring about
amazingly successful results...the success of [chiropractic] adjustments
overshadows every other type of treatment [sic]."
A 1989 study compared the health of two hundred children under medical
care with two hundred under chiropractic care. The chiropractic children
had fewer ear infections, fewer allergies, fewer cases of tonsillitis
and, of course, less medical treatment such as antibiotic therapy,
medications and vaccination. The health of the children under
chiropractic care was notably superior to that of children under medical
care.
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Today we find more patents bringing their children to doctors of chiropractic for spinal checkups. With a healthy column, a child's body can better deal with the sore throats, ear infections, fever, colic, asthma, tonsillitis, allergies, bed-wetting, viral and bacterial infections, pains, stomachaches, measles, mumps and the hundred-and-one other problems that often make up young life.
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Spinal Misalignment can cause more than just back pain.
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