Pediatric Chiropractic
Chiropractic for your New Borns & Babies
Birth can be traumatic. Neck and head pulls are a crucial factor for the neuro-musculoskeletal systems future development. As a precaution it is important to check if your child has vertebral blockages that may interfere in his/her development. Chiropractic techniques used on children are very gentle. Adjustments are made by precise and painless pressure, no stronger than the pressure that can be applied to the eyeball.
A birth that is too long or too short (your child who has experienced extreme mechanical stress in such a short period of time) can be a trauma.
New moms often consult for:
- Breastfeeding: chiropractic adjustments for new borns safely address the craniocervical dysfunction and help restore natural and efficient suckling patterns.
- Prevention and treatment
- Plagiocephaly (deformation of the skull, or asymmetry of the face)
- Torticollis
- Colics
- Otitis
- Breast latch disorder
- Constipation
- Unexplained crying
- KISS syndrome, Banana (C posture) or extension posture
- Sleep problems
Chiropractic for your Children
From the first steps to the first falls of your child, chiropractic is a great ally to diagnose and treat your children’s musculoskeletal disorders.
If your child is complaining of pain, or is injured after a fall, do not hesitate to consult a first contact health care professional, as your chiropractor.
Later on he will play sports, carry a heavy schoolbag, adopt bad working positions, wear braces… so many factors that could conduct to further subluxation and a bad posture.
Walking, running, jumping. Here are some new activities that your child is discovering day after day. Parents mainly bring their child to a chiropractic session for the following reasons:
- Feet that rotate inwards or outwards
- Growth pains in the lower limb
- Scoliosis
- Posture problems
- Back pain
- Headaches