Why do children need a Chiropractic Checkup?
Children are simply smaller versions of adults they arrive complete and have requirements to thrive. Stress to this small human framework and nervous system begins from the day we are born.
However, all too often the need for spinal care of infants and children goes unrecognised.
We all know that the childhood years are crucial to our overall development and if problems are not resolved then we often carry them through life.
It is not normal for children to have headaches, constant infections and allergies or growing pains, nor are they likely to just grow out of them.
How do children develop spinal problems?
Spinal problems can begin from the forces
and stresses of birth, especially if forceps or suction are used. In early life falls from prams and high chairs, tumbles down steps, constant bumps to the head and bottom whilst learning to walk, as well as the various sporting incidents and car accidents and sibling wrestling all contribute to accumulated stress on the framework of a child’s body.
Such stresses may upset the normal mechanics of the child’s body, contributing to damage and imbalance of spinal and other joints, ligaments and muscles. This in turn upsets nerve pathways. Your nervous system controls the way your body works.
Chiropractors believe that health depends, to a large degree on a healthy nervous system.
What are the Consequences?
Clinical experience, backed by an increasing amount of scientific research has shown that a wide variety of childhood problems may respond to chiropractic management. These include:
