Do Children Need To See A Chiropractor?
Do Children Need To See A Chiropractor?
How soon should your child get adjusted? These are two of the many questions I get from concerned parents like yourself.
First off picture your child. Picture and look over the span of the last six months. What kind of changes have happened in that child? How much did they learn? How much growing did they do? How many tumbles, and falls have they had? How much development has your child gone through? Now stretch that growth and experience out over a year, two years, especially with all the slips, falls, accidents, and blows to their head.
They're adventurous, and exploring from the time they learn to crawl. Every day, life kind of kicks the crap out of them a little bit. Watching my own daughter, I'm amazed at how many times she can bang her head, fall, trip, or drop something that leaves her in tears. These are real impacts and they’re consistent. They stumble, they fall, often hurting themselves while doing so.
So How Do These Little Accidents Affect Their Growth And Development?
When you think about how their body develops, it's their nervous system that directs all the changes they are experiencing. What is their nervous sytem? It’s their brain, spinal cord, and the nerves that come out between the bones of their back. This is the system that controls every function in their body; all the growth, development, healing, and repair happens because their brain tells their body what to do and how to do it. The question I would ask you is doesn't it make sense to do everything in your power to make sure there’s no interference with her brain sending the proper messages to every area of their body?
That's what the child's nervous system is responsible for and as a chiropractor, that is what I became an expert in. We are specialists in the neuromusculoskeletal systems, and how to make sure they’re working at their very best. Like all chiropractors, I took all the courses in terms of what it takes to recognizedevelopmental steps; how to perform all the checks, to ensure that your child is developing as they should. That way you know your child has been given every opportunity to blossom into the wonderful person that they're destined to become.
As they grow and have their inevitable slips and falls, they can develop spinal misalignments. These misalignments cause tight muscles, impair their mobility, and affect their joint health. It can put pressure on those delicate nerves that send life-giving messages to all their vital organs. When your child has misalignments they're not going to be able to progress exactly according to their biological plan. That means they're always going to be slightly less than what their full potential could be. Some people might take offense to that, and I don’t mean anything malicious, but the simple fact is that any problem left alone only gets bigger, and affects them from truly harnessing and experiencing every gift, talent, and experience they have available to them.
The Kids I See Are Healthier And Often Get Sick Less.
They’re able to play harder, recover from injuries quicker, and in many cases they don’t have to take as much prescription or over the counter medication because we removed the actual problem in the first place.
Not only that, but my clinic is designed around helping you establish a true family culture of wellness and health with your everyday choices. That means the food you eat, the movement and activity you instill, the products you surround her with, the mindset you foster will all add together to give her body and mind the best building blocks to create a phenomenal child and young adult.
In the beginning, parents may be nervous to bring their child to a chiropractor because the adjustment can look very dramatic, or someone they know may have had a bad experience. In my experience, the biggest reason for the fear or uncertainty is because the chiropractor may not have taken the time to understand the concerns of the parent, or properly addressed it. I completely understand. This is your child we’re talking about. Also, it's one of those things where when you're making a decision for your child, you want to make sure you have all the information available so you can make the best possible decision.
When a child gets adjusted, it's incredibly delicate for babies. We use fingertip pressure; similar to what you would use to checka tomato for ripeness. It's that gentle. For the first year or two, you don't even need to do any cracking or popping. We can also use instruments that canbe specifically dialled back for kids. Basically,thereare lots of ways to adjust that are very safe and gentle. At the start, it can bea little bit scary for the parents, which as an over protective dad myself, is totally understandable. Once most parents see how gentle the adjustments are, there’s no issues for them.
Set Your Child Up For Success
Many big problems in adults start out as a little problems in kids, so make sure your child's spine and nervous system are healthy as possible. It's effective and gentle. Ask me how.
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My best advice is to make sure you get someone that will take the time to explain exactly why and how they're going to adjust your child. More importantly, how they're going to care for your little one. It will set you at ease and set your the child up to blossom into the person they're meant to be.
For that reason, my daughter has been adjusted since she was two days old. She had a traumatic birth and I recognized that there was an issue as soon as she started to crawl. One leg wouldn’t come up to her chest like the other side, and it caused her to “scoot” across the floor without extending one leg. I knew that issue couldn’t stay. Her brain wouldn’t be receiving the same input from one side of her body as the other, muscles would shorten, muscle firing patterns would be altered, and ultimately problems would develop later on. Neurologically speaking, your child’s body was designed to harness the power of gravity to drive every higher mental process in their brain. The “baseline activation” they get from the constant firing of muscle spindles and mechanoreceptors in joints provide the power that feeds into every higher nerve pathway. Chiropractic neurologists use theose pathways to improve brain function, cognition, balance, learning disabilities, and a whole host of brain-based disorders that can come from joints, muscles, and injuries that never received the care they needed.
For my daughter, that's exactly why I wanted to get her adjusted right away. I wanted to make sure that her delicate, newborn nervous system and muscles were working at their very best; that there was nothing in the way of misalignments that could put pressure on the nerves affecting the way that her brain communicated with the rest of her body.
At the same time, her immune system receives a massive amount of neurological input. It is the input from the nervous system that stimulates her immune system. So one of the things that I've found is that by adjusting kids,they don't get sick as often. They don't have to take as many medications or antibiotics or deal with as many ear infections. By having them adjusted regularly, you set them up to be healthier. Plus, because they’re kids, the problems haven’t been there that long and they can go a month or two between adjustments.
You can also set your children up to avoid a lot of medical interventions. Don’t get me wrong, medical interventions have a ton of value when they're necessary. However, I don’t believe they should be your first line of defense. Arguably it would be a better plan to let them experience the world, experience germs, build up their immune system so that they can be as strong and capable to handle the life that they're going to face head on. That's exactly what I wanted to do for my daughter. I wanted to set her up to be as strong as possible with every opportunity to blossom into the person that she's designed to be. So that's why I get her adjusted. That's why I continued to get her adjusted and that's why I will adjust her for the rest of my life
.If you will allow me, I would love to sit down and talk with you about the benefits of chiropractic care, adjust your children, and give them all the benefits my daughter enjoys so they too may have the ability to blossom 100% into the person they are designed to be. Call our office at (204) 250-9698 to arrange a complimentary health check for your children.
Set Your Child Up For Success
Many big problems in adults start out as a little problems in kids, so make sure your child's spine and nervous system are healthy as possible. It's effective and gentle. Ask me how.
Call Dr. Ryan at (204)-250-9698
Please fill out the form below before coming to your appointment