Found at: http://ourworld-top.cs.com/rkbrowndc/index.htm Chiropractic and: Children Colic Ear Infections ------------------------------------- CHIROPRACTIC AND CHILDREN As a concerned parent, you no doubt want to do everything possible to ensure your children are as healthy as they can be. Many factors contribute to your children's overall health, proper nutrition, rest, exercise, love and chiropractic. Chiropractic is the vital link that enables the growth, healing, and function of every tissue and organ in the body. Chiropractors are concerned with small misalignments of the spinal bones that damage the nervous system, called vertebral subluxations. Subluxations cause interference to the delicate nerve system by putting pressure on the nerves as they branch off of the spinal cord and effecting the spinal cord itself. Your nerve system is responsible for coordinating and controlling everything the body does including growth, repair and healing of your entire body. Therefor subluxations should be corrected as soon as possible. Subluxations also interfere with internal organ functions. The results may be as simple as the inability to produce the proper quantity and quality of chemicals. Chemicals naturally produced within your child's body are responsible for functions as basic as raising and lowering body temperature. Subluxations not only effect your children's level of health but also their overall level of performance. Everything from the ability to laugh, learn, develop coordination, digest food, grow, hear and see are controlled by the nervous system and can be effected by vertebral subluxations. Bad News. Vertebral subluxations are common in children. The spine, that surrounds and protects the spinal cord and nerve roots, is very delicate. It has been estimated that the neck may be stretched twice the normal length during birth. In addition, during the pushing stage of labor, the spine may be misaligned as the baby is compressed and pushed down the birth canal. If the young child is not subluxated at birth, surely he or she will be when they are learning to stand and walk. Children may fall twenty times a day, constantly introducing forces into their small spines. They fall out of bed, off the couch, off their bicycles, while rollerblading, running and playing. Possibly doing damage that should have been corrected. It is sad to think of the millions of children that have vertebral subluxations. For some subluxations may cause permanent damage to the nerve system and the tissues it supplies. Then their health and potential has been reduced to a level from which it may never rise. The sooner the nerve system is allowed to function properly, the sooner health and life can be restored. GOOD NEWS! Vertebral subluxations can be corrected! Chiropractors are trained to correct subluxations by means of a chiropractic adjustment. This gives you and your children the opportunity to maximize and enhance your health throughout life. Chiropractors can help everyone from newborns to the elderly. Regardless of their age, everyone benefits from chiropractic care! 10 week old Skylar gets his spine checked by Dr. Gina. "Interference to the nervous system results in permanent damage within a short period of time, therefore chiropractic care should begin at birth." Dr. Arpad DeNagy The Rockefeller Institute home/top ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chiropractic & Colic Almost all infants develop periods of fussiness. This is often referred to as colic. It has been defined as periods of irritability, fussiness and inconsolable crying in a healthy baby (which lasts for at least 3 hours a day, at least 3 days a week). Problems in areas other than the gastrointestinal tract can be improperly diagnosed as colic. If a baby is crying inconsolably, it is very difficult to know if he or she is actually suffering from a digestive disturbance. Since many subluxations (spinal bone misalignments that compromise the nervous system) in infants are in the upper cervical area, there is a strong possibility, especially when there has been a history of birth trauma, that these babies are suffering from head and neck pain due to spinal subluxations in this area. In a study looking at babies receiving chiropractic care for colic, 94% saw improvement in their baby's behavior within 2 weeks of initiation of care. A little over half of these babies had already been unsuccessfully treated, usually by pharmacological means (Klougart et al., 1989). Another study found 91% of babies experienced a reduction in colicky behavior following as little as two chiropractic adjustments (Nilsson, 1985). Despite these results, don't be confused. Chiropractic is by no means a treatment for colic. The goal of the Chiropractor is to correct vertebral subluxations that damage the nervous system and prevent the body from functioning properly. When a child's body is compromised, functioning at less than perfect, due to a vertebral subluxation. Then when the subluxation is corrected and the body functions better, the above mentioned results are not surprising. Regardless of how your baby looks, acts or feels, vertebral subluxations ALLWAYS do damage. Have your children checked for vertebral subluxations today to give them the best chance to grow up healthy and strong. home/top ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chiropractic & Ear Infections Ear infections (otitis media) are the most common cause of pediatric visits, and subsequent antibiotic use during the first two years of a child's life. In the US, the cost of the medical and surgical treatment of otitis has been estimated to be between $3 billion and $4 billion annually. According to medical doctors, Otitis media is a complication of the common cold, sinusitis, or a sore throat, developing once normal resistance to infection has been lost. Just as mental or emotional stress impairs the immune function, physical stress on the central nervous system lowers our resistance to disease. 2 1/2 year old Gabriella gets her spine checked, with a little help from a gorilla. It has been found that 93% of all episodes of otitis media treated improved with chiropractic care. 75% of the cases improved in 10 days or less, and 43% with only one or two adjustment (Froehle, 1996). Chiropractic is by no means a treatment for ear infections or a substitute for medical care. Chiropractors correct vertebral subluxations that damage the nervous system and prevent the body from functioning properly. When the damaging subluxation is corrected, and the body functions better, the above mentioned results are not surprising. Regardless of how your child looks, acts or feels, vertebral subluxations ALLWAYS do damage. Have your children checked for vertebral subluxations today to give them the chance they deserve to grow up healthy and strong?