Kids can benefits from chiropractic too! Even children with no pain or symptoms
can receive "wellness" benefits from regular chiropractic visits.
There are currently a number of changes going on in the health care field today.
One of the main shifts is away from crisis care and toward prevention and
maintenance care. A term you will be hearing a lot in the near future is
"wellness care." Wellness care is taking care of people while they have no
symptoms so that they don't get sick.
The best people to get started with wellness care are kids. Children go through
so many changes as they grow. All of the major systems go through countless
developmental stages. The nervous system is the first to develop and controls
all the others. It is therefore very important to have as little interference
as possible with the nervous system in the growing child.
Research has shown that one of the worst interferences with the nervous system
is a vertebral subluxation, a misalignment of the spine which results in
pressure on the nervous system. Subluxations may occur very early in life. One
of the most traumatic things to the spine is the birth process. Especially in a
difficult delivery, the trauma to the cervical bones can be dramatic.
As children begin to walk, they take hundreds of falls. In the early years they
are always falling off bikes, out of trees, etc. All of these small traumas add
up and eventually start to affect the spine.
How many of you have taken young children to have their teeth or
their eyes checked? Most of you probably have. Now how many of you have taken
your child to a chiropractor to have his or her spine checked? If you never
have, I wonder why not? People will think nothing of having braces put on their
kid's teeth and spending thousands of dollars just so they have straight teeth.
But they will never have their spine checked to see if it is straight.
The research regarding the effect of chiropractic care on kids is amazing. A
1989 study which compared 200 children who had seen pediatricians with 200
children who had been under chiropractic care showed that the health of the
children who had seen chiropractors was notably superior to that of children
brought up under standard medical care. The chiropractic children, for example,
had fewer ear infections, allergies, and cases of tonsillitis, and therefore
required less medicine.
It has been proven that adjusting the spine to relieve nerve pressure has a
direct effect on the immune system. It also makes sense that a better
functioning nervous system makes for a better functioning body as a whole.
In conclusion, chiropractic has been shown through research to be an excellent
choice for wellness care. Your children deserve to have their full potential
utilized as they grow. Chiropractic care is a very important part of your
children's health care. Please make an appointment to have your child's spine
checked by a chiropractor on a regular basis. Dr. Tarrabain has helped
numerous children and infants as young as seven days old. We can check
your child's spine today to make sure your child is in great shape!