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What is
CHIROPRACTIC?
Chiropractic and
Children
Why Check a Child for Vertebral Subluxation?
Is
it safe to have a child adjusted?
Chiropractic
is a non-invasive, drug-free science, philosophy and healing art that
optimizes nervous system function. Your nervous system consists
of the brain, spinal cord and miles of nerve tissue. It is the electrical
system through which the brain controls every function in the body.
Electrical impulses originate in the brain, travel down the spinal cord
and flow out through the spinal nerves to direct the function of every
organ, muscle and cell.
When
spinal vertebrae or joints in the body are out of place (a subluxation)
due to stress or trauma, the nervous system becomes irritated and
blocked. Energy and information become “stuck” and the body can’t
operate at its best. Chiropractors remove these blocks with gentle,
specific adjustments, thus allowing the body to heal itself once the
energy and information are restored.
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Chiropractic
and Children
While
other health care providers treat only a child’s symptoms, your
Chiropractor constantly strives to find the cause of the problem by
assessing the nervous system, the body’s master control system. Because
the nervous system maintains and controls all functions of the body,
including the immune system, it just makes sense to keep your child’s
nervous system as healthy as possible allowing them to reach their
maximum health potential.
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Why Check a Child for Vertebral
Subluxation?
Chiropractors
look for Vertebral Subluxation. This means interference to the spinal
cord and/or spinal nerve roots that travel between vertebrae in the
spinal column. It often results from the stresses of everyday
activities. Physical stress, such as fall, jolts, jars, tumbles and
accidents (playground, etc.) as well as emotional tension and stress
are but a few of the ways children acquire vertebral subluxations. A
perfect example is to look at an infant asleep in a car seat, look at
the position of the child’s neck and head. This postural distortion is
just a sample of the way children acquire vertebral subluxations.
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Is it safe to have a child adjusted?
Absolutely,
as a matter of fact it is so safe chiropractors even work on infants
and new-borns. There are plenty of studies in the medical literature
that prove this. If you want just go to www.ICPA4kids.com and click on the
research tab and then on safety issues and you’ll find them. Another
way to look at the safety of Chiropractic is to look up the malpractice
rates of physicians in your state. You will find that Doctors of
Chiropractic have extremely low premiums compared to their medical
counterparts. This is a significant indicator of safety since it’s
based upon claims made and paid.
Another
thing most people are not aware of is that Chiropractors use different
techniques on children compared to the average adult. They are much
gentler and some are actually considered non-force techniques. Children
actually respond very well and very quickly to chiropractic care in
most cases. And because chiropractic removes interference from the
nervous system, which controls the immune system, clinical cases reveal
that children under care have significantly reduced frequency of
illness. Also noted is that when children do get sick the severity and
duration is lessened due to the chiropractic care.
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