Chiropractic care is not only appropriate for newborns, but is arguably the most important period of life to get regular chiropractic checkups.
Why do newborns and children benefit from regular chiropractic checkups?
- To correct spinal subluxations due to trauma during the birth process.
- To correct normal spinal subluxations that occur due to belly sleeping or breastfeeding with the head turned to one side.
- To relax tight, painful, tense muscle fiber bundles usually in the neck or midback that can the result of constantly trying to strengthen movement patterns and overcoming gravitational forces.
- To correct subluxation of the pelvis which often helps with newborn constipation and painful bowel movements.
- To encourage normal musculoskeletal growth & mobility as the newborn strengthens extensor muscle groups in the journey to standing and walking.
- To encourage a normally aligned spine and pelvis before the age where the growth center in the pelvis, vertebrea and long bones mature permanently.
- To stimulate immune system function by encouraging normal spinal segmental movement and removing unnatural interference of nervous tissue impulses especially from the gut to the brain.
Treatments include assesment of spinal segments, soft tissue, reflexes, movement patterns, and spinal correction using gentle manual or instrument techniques. Often after treatment newborns and children are much more relaxed than before treatment.
As further incentive to get your children checked, currently Chirocean offers to treat children under 12 years of age for free in conjunction with a parent’s chiropractic treatment.