CHIROPRACTIC AND CHILDREN

               Parents who often appreciate the importance of checkups for their child's teeth, hearing, eyes, ears, nose, and throat draw a blank when it comes to the spine.

            A spinal checkup could be one of the most important of your child's life! Why? In addition to the stress of childbirth, the constant jumping, falling, running, and bumping of the normal childhood often causes vertebral subluxations, with serious health consequences if uncorrected.

            A newborn's spine may be subject to abnormal stress as a result of a difficult birth, a breech presentation, caesarean birth, obstetrical error, or abnormal in-utero position during the last trimester. Such spinal stress can lead to health problems. (Dr. Jackie often makes trips to the hospital or home shortly after the birth to give newborns their first adjustment.)

            Today we find more parents bringing their children to doctors of chiropractic for spinal checkups. With a healthy spinal column, a child's body can better deal with the sore throats, ear infections, stomachaches, fevers, measles, mumps, and the 101 other problems that often make up young life. Without chiropractic care some children will continue to live in continued sickness, condemned to a life of taking medicines and perhaps even surgeries.

Chiropractic: Bringing Out The Best In You
An Introduction. 4th Edition
Tedd Koren, D.C.