More and more parents today are seeking chiropractic care for their children and for good reason. A visit to the chiropractor can be just as important as a visit to the dentist or your pediatrician’s office. Chiropractic care not only helps keep your child’s spinal cord in order but also helps to alleviate and prevent numerous additional health issues. Kids who see a chiropractor tend to have excellent overall health. Here is what you need to know.
Your Child’s Spinal Health
Your child’s spinal health has an impact on his/her nervous system. Any kind of stress or trauma to the spine can impact your child’s health and overall wellbeing. Even at birth your baby very well could need spinal care as the birthing process can be traumatic and very often causes misalignments of the spine. When spinal misalignments are detected and treated early on, you very often can keep your child from experiencing a variety of long term health conditions.
Causes of Spinal Misalignments
Misalignments can happen at any of time and everything from trauma to stress can play a factor. Here are some examples of when your child may encounter stress to their spinal cord.
- During the birthing process.
- When an infant is learning to crawl or walk.
- Playing outside like when riding a scooter, bicycle or roller blades.
- Engaging in any sport activity like tennis or soccer.
- Having poor posture like when sitting hunched over a computer or hand held video game.
- Falls while playing with other children or when playing sports.
- Stress and anxiety from everyday childhood issues from making friends to doing well in school.
Conditions That May Be Helped With Regular Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic care is a whole body approach to treatment. It not only helps to alleviate back and neck pain in kids but can also help with sleep issues, may relieve or reduce ear infections, help treat sinus and allergy issues, reduce the symptoms of ADHD, reduce headaches, relieve anxiousness and more. A bonus with chiropractic care is that it is drug free relief and spinal adjustments also get to the root cause of the pain instead of just treating the symptoms.
What to Expect When Visiting the Chiropractor
While many people are nervous about visiting a chiropractor, there is absolutely nothing to fear. Chiropractic care provides health benefits without being invasive and without the use of drugs. Your first appointment will be much like that of any other doctor you would visit. A health history of your child will be taken, your child will be examined by the chiropractor, the first spinal adjustment may be performed and the doctor will come up with an ongoing treatment plan.
When Should I Schedule an Appointment for My Child to See a Chiropractor?
Even newborn babies can benefit from chiropractic care and the sooner you start taking your child to a chiropractor the sooner your child can start reaping the benefits. Especially if your child suffers from any kind of back or neck pain, has chronic ear infections or any other health aliments that you are worried about, a chiropractor visit just may help. Finally, know you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So many parents who start their kids in chiropractic care have just one regret, and that is that they didn’t make an appointment sooner.
Your Tulsa Chiropractor,
Dr. Ryan Marshall, D.C.