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Children have a spine and nervous system that deserve to be healthy. A properly aligned and moving spine is vitally important to the health of a child’s brain. New research shows that over ONE-THIRD of 20 year-olds have spinal degeneration with no symptoms. This means they have a very unhealthy spine but no presenting pain and symptoms. As chiropractors, our biggest concern is how an unhealthy spine will interfere with their brain and nervous system function. And when that happens, it influences all aspects of human development and performance.
We can get to the cause of some of these issues before they become irreversible. The most important part is parents knowing that altered spinal biomechanics, what we call a subluxation, is more than a back problem - it’s a brain and nervous system problem, and that’s why we are so passionate about children (and adults) receiving Chiropractic! |
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Chiropractic for Infants & Babies
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Babies suffering from colic and children with learning difficulties, recurrent ear infections or tonsillitis, for example, also benefit from specific chiropractic adjustments. This all makes sense because your nervous system controls your whole body, and due to poor adaptation to stressors (i.e. physical, such as birth trauma; mental/emotional; or chemical), nerve interference can ensue resulting in altered messages being sent to the relevant organs or muscles. By freeing up this interference, with specific low force, gentle, chiropractic adjustments, the body is able to function at its full genetic potential once again.
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Chiropractic for Children
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A disrupted nervous system presents itself in older children in the form of recurrent ear infections, sinus problems or allergies. In the school age child we see changes in behaviour, loss of concentration, problems with learning. Children may resist engaging in sports or other activities because their bodies are uncomfortable and they don't know how to express it.
Many other conditions affect both children and adults – sleep disturbances, irregular bowel habits as well as back pain, neck pain, headaches and migraines. Chiropractic care aims to improve your general feeling of well-being and your quality of life. |
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In alignment the body is self-healing and self-regulating. However, stress (and the inability of the body to adapt appropriately) leads to neurological interference and compromises the ability of the body to self-heal and adapt which may ultimately lead to symptoms. Specific neurologically based chiropractic adjustments reduce nerve interference, and allow the body to self-regulate and heal, thereby reducing these symptoms.
One may wonder what stress a baby or a small child may have, but we if break it down to physical, chemical and or emotional stress, a baby has been exposed to many, as the birth process alone is very stressful, especially if the baby is breach, born via caesarean or use of forceps or suction for instance, and if the mother was stressed or exposed to any chemical stressors during the pregnancy, for example, that may affect baby as well.
Since we work at reducing neurological interference, improving neurological balance, allowing the body to self-heal and regulate, patients that would certainly benefit, (apart from lower back pain or even depression post-partum for instance) would be stressed, sleep deprived moms and restless (colicky) babies as well as kids with chronic ear infections, allergies, or poor attention and learning difficulties.
10 reasons parents take their children to see a chiropractor:
1. Encourage good brain and nerve development
2. To support their child’s overall health and wellbeing
3. To help strengthen their child’s immunity
4. To assist with colic and Irritable Baby Syndrome, as well as any feeding or latching difficulties
5. To help with asthma, breathing difficulties and allergies as well as recurrent ear infections or tonsillitis
6. To encourage good spinal posture
7. To help improve their child’s ability to concentrate
8. To assist with behavioural disorders
9. To help alleviate digestive problems
10. To assist with bed-wetting and sleep issues
One may wonder what stress a baby or a small child may have, but we if break it down to physical, chemical and or emotional stress, a baby has been exposed to many, as the birth process alone is very stressful, especially if the baby is breach, born via caesarean or use of forceps or suction for instance, and if the mother was stressed or exposed to any chemical stressors during the pregnancy, for example, that may affect baby as well.
Since we work at reducing neurological interference, improving neurological balance, allowing the body to self-heal and regulate, patients that would certainly benefit, (apart from lower back pain or even depression post-partum for instance) would be stressed, sleep deprived moms and restless (colicky) babies as well as kids with chronic ear infections, allergies, or poor attention and learning difficulties.
10 reasons parents take their children to see a chiropractor:
1. Encourage good brain and nerve development
2. To support their child’s overall health and wellbeing
3. To help strengthen their child’s immunity
4. To assist with colic and Irritable Baby Syndrome, as well as any feeding or latching difficulties
5. To help with asthma, breathing difficulties and allergies as well as recurrent ear infections or tonsillitis
6. To encourage good spinal posture
7. To help improve their child’s ability to concentrate
8. To assist with behavioural disorders
9. To help alleviate digestive problems
10. To assist with bed-wetting and sleep issues