Infants and Chiropractic-Chicago Childrens' Chiropractor
Published by Chicago Chiropractor Seaman Chiropractic on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM.
How do you know if your childs spine is healthy? An unhealthy spine can effect your child's health for his/her entire life. Your doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to check your child's spine for areas of distortion causing nerve damage-the vertebral subluxation complex (subluxations).
Sometimes a newborn's spine is harmed at birth. How can that occur? According to abraham Towbin, MD: The birth process...is potentially a traumatic, crippling event...mechanical stress imposed by obstetrical manipulation-even the application of standard orthodox procedures may prove intolerable to the fetus... most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological...(1)
With the birth process becomong more and more an intervening procedure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the childs future (2)
Research is confirming chiropractors' observations that infants may suffer from spinal subluxations. In one study, 1,250 babies were examined five days after birth 211 of them suffered vomiting, hyperactivity and sleeplessness. Subluxations were found in 95% of this group.
Although the researchers in this study were MDs, they recognized the power of chiropractic care and these babies were given the spinal care they needed. The authors reported that the spinal adjustment "frequently resulted in immediate quieting, cessation of crying, muscular relaxation and sleepiness."
There seems to be no limit to the condition that can respond to chiropractic care: colic,(6-9) difficulty breast-feeding,(10-11)Erb's palsy(an arm limp and undeveloped),(12) torticollis (twisted neck),(13-14) unbalanced face and skull development,(15) foot inversion,(16) "nervousness," ear, nose and throat infections, (17) allergies and sleep disorders,(18) and projectile vomiting(19) are just a sampling. All infants however sick or well, need to have a healthy spine.
Our children deserve to be treated naturally, not with dangerous chemical drugs and unproven surgries.
Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked-please bring your child(ren) in for a chiropractic spinal exam. A simple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your child(ren) for the rest of their lives
(1)Towbin A. Latent spinal cord and brainstem injury in newborn infants
Develop. Med. Child Neurol. 1969;11:54-68
(2)Webster L.Int'l. Chiropractic Pediatric Assc Newsletter. May 1990:1.
(6)Klougart N. Nilsson N, Jacobsen, J. Infantile colic treated by chiropractors: a prospective study of 316 cases. JMPT. 1989;12:281-288
(7)Nilsson N. Infantile colic and chiropractic. Eur J Chiro. 1985;33:264-265
(8)Pluhar GR,Schobert PD. Vertebral subluxation and colic: a case study. J of Chiropractic Reasearch and Clinical Investigation. 1991;7:75-76.
(9)Wiberg JMM, Nordsteen J Nilsson N. The short-term effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of infantile colic: a randomized controlled clinical trial with a blinded observer. Jmpt. 1999;22(8):517-522
(10)Sheader WE. Chiropractic management of an infant experiencing breast-feeding difficulties and colic: a case study. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics. 1999;4(1)
(11)Cuhel JM, Powell MM. Chiropractic management of an infant patient experiencing colic and difficulty breast-feeding: a case report. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics. 1997;2(2):150-154
(12)Harris SL, Wood KW. Resolution of onfantile Erb's palsy utilizing chiropractic treatment. JMPT. 1993;16:415-418
(13)Biedermann H. Kinematic imbalances due to suboccipital strain in newborns. J. Manual Medicine. 1992;6:151-156
(14)Toto BJ. Chiropractic correction of congenital muscular torticollis. JMPT. 1993;16:556-559
(15)Gutmann G.l The atlas fixation syndrome in the baby and infant. Manuelle Medizin. 1987;25:5-10
(16)Ellis WB, Ebrall PS. The resolution of chronic inversion and plantarflexion of the foot: a pediatric case study. Chiropractic Technique. 1991;3(2)
(17)Fryman V. Relations of disturbances of cranio-sacrak mechanisms to symptomatology of the newborn. JAOA. 1966;65:1059.
(18)Munck LK, Hoffman H, Nielsen AA. Treatment of infants in the first year of the life by chiropractors: incidents and reasons for seeking treatment. Ugeskr Laeger.1988;150:1841-1844
(19)Van Loon M> Colic with projectile vomiting: a case study. J of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics 1998;3(1):207-210
Sometimes a newborn's spine is harmed at birth. How can that occur? According to abraham Towbin, MD: The birth process...is potentially a traumatic, crippling event...mechanical stress imposed by obstetrical manipulation-even the application of standard orthodox procedures may prove intolerable to the fetus... most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological...(1)
With the birth process becomong more and more an intervening procedure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the childs future (2)
Research is confirming chiropractors' observations that infants may suffer from spinal subluxations. In one study, 1,250 babies were examined five days after birth 211 of them suffered vomiting, hyperactivity and sleeplessness. Subluxations were found in 95% of this group.
Although the researchers in this study were MDs, they recognized the power of chiropractic care and these babies were given the spinal care they needed. The authors reported that the spinal adjustment "frequently resulted in immediate quieting, cessation of crying, muscular relaxation and sleepiness."
There seems to be no limit to the condition that can respond to chiropractic care: colic,(6-9) difficulty breast-feeding,(10-11)Erb's palsy(an arm limp and undeveloped),(12) torticollis (twisted neck),(13-14) unbalanced face and skull development,(15) foot inversion,(16) "nervousness," ear, nose and throat infections, (17) allergies and sleep disorders,(18) and projectile vomiting(19) are just a sampling. All infants however sick or well, need to have a healthy spine.
Our children deserve to be treated naturally, not with dangerous chemical drugs and unproven surgries.
Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked-please bring your child(ren) in for a chiropractic spinal exam. A simple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your child(ren) for the rest of their lives
(1)Towbin A. Latent spinal cord and brainstem injury in newborn infants
Develop. Med. Child Neurol. 1969;11:54-68
(2)Webster L.Int'l. Chiropractic Pediatric Assc Newsletter. May 1990:1.
(6)Klougart N. Nilsson N, Jacobsen, J. Infantile colic treated by chiropractors: a prospective study of 316 cases. JMPT. 1989;12:281-288
(7)Nilsson N. Infantile colic and chiropractic. Eur J Chiro. 1985;33:264-265
(8)Pluhar GR,Schobert PD. Vertebral subluxation and colic: a case study. J of Chiropractic Reasearch and Clinical Investigation. 1991;7:75-76.
(9)Wiberg JMM, Nordsteen J Nilsson N. The short-term effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of infantile colic: a randomized controlled clinical trial with a blinded observer. Jmpt. 1999;22(8):517-522
(10)Sheader WE. Chiropractic management of an infant experiencing breast-feeding difficulties and colic: a case study. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics. 1999;4(1)
(11)Cuhel JM, Powell MM. Chiropractic management of an infant patient experiencing colic and difficulty breast-feeding: a case report. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics. 1997;2(2):150-154
(12)Harris SL, Wood KW. Resolution of onfantile Erb's palsy utilizing chiropractic treatment. JMPT. 1993;16:415-418
(13)Biedermann H. Kinematic imbalances due to suboccipital strain in newborns. J. Manual Medicine. 1992;6:151-156
(14)Toto BJ. Chiropractic correction of congenital muscular torticollis. JMPT. 1993;16:556-559
(15)Gutmann G.l The atlas fixation syndrome in the baby and infant. Manuelle Medizin. 1987;25:5-10
(16)Ellis WB, Ebrall PS. The resolution of chronic inversion and plantarflexion of the foot: a pediatric case study. Chiropractic Technique. 1991;3(2)
(17)Fryman V. Relations of disturbances of cranio-sacrak mechanisms to symptomatology of the newborn. JAOA. 1966;65:1059.
(18)Munck LK, Hoffman H, Nielsen AA. Treatment of infants in the first year of the life by chiropractors: incidents and reasons for seeking treatment. Ugeskr Laeger.1988;150:1841-1844
(19)Van Loon M> Colic with projectile vomiting: a case study. J of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics 1998;3(1):207-210
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