Why Kids Need Regular Chiropractic Care

Today, millions of adults around the world are turning to chiropractic care for their overall health and wellbeing. Many of these people are parents who are also bringing their children to chiropractors for routine adjustments. However, these children aren’t suffering from any lower back pain or accidental injury; instead they are getting adjusted so that they can be as healthy as possible. 

Chiropractic care can actually provide kids with numerous health benefits even when they seem to be feeling fine.

Understanding a kid’s nervous system 

The nervous system in the human body consists of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, and it controls growth and development among other things. Misalignments in the spine, also known as subluxations, can prevent proper communication from the brain to the body and in turn cause stress to the nervous system decrease function in the affected area. 

Infants, kids, and adults can all experience subluxations in their spine. In fact, kids and infants can even become subluxated from birth or very early in their life due to developmental stress. 

It is during the first five years of our lives that our body produces the most neural pathways for our overall development. Even if your kid is completely healthy, minor traumas from falls, bumps, or bruises can accumulate over time and cause pain or discomfort to them in their teen or adult years.

That is why, it is crucial to make sure they your kid’s growth is optimized and reaches its potential by regularly taking kids to the chiropractic care. 

Chiropractic adjustment for kids

It’s important to remember that chiropractic adjustments are safe for people of all ages, even newborns. Chiropractors usually start the process by assessing your kids spine and then performing a gentle adjustment by either using their hands or a small tool. The adjustment and other chiropractic therapies are completely pain free and they can easily remove any degree of subluxation.

Regular chiropractic sessions can also help your kids sleep better, feel more positive, and it can even improve the immune system function. Many of the patients have also reported improvement in allergies, digestive problems, asthma, and more.

Benefits of chiropractic care for kids

Chiropractic care is completely drug-free, making it a great option for kids. It also has many other benefits, including:

1- Improvement in sleep quality 

A quality good night’s sleep can not only improve your kid’s health, but also make them more active during the day. However, over 30 percent of kids suffer from sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep walking, night terrors, and sleep apnea. 

With chiropractic care, it is possible to improve sleep quality and let the kids have more peaceful nights. With small spinal adjustments and a gentle massage, chiropractors can make kids feel more relaxed and in turn help them get a better night’s sleep. 

2. Decrease in colic 

Baby colic is when infants go through episodes of crying of more than three hours a day. It can be due to numerous reasons including discomfort and cramping. The symptoms of colic start appearing when babies are around six weeks old and usually disappear when they are over four months old.

Though, it is possible to treat colic in the 15-20 percent of newborn babies who are diagnosed with it. Chiropractic care can help ease the symptoms of colic in kids and reduce crying by over 50 percent. With prompt chiropractic care, infants also have fewer instances of temper tantrums and waking up in the middle of the night.

3. Treat sports injuries

It is way easier for kids to get sports injuries while playing because they are usually more active and less careful while playing. These kind of injuries can come back to haunt them later in their adult life if they don’t properly take care of it. 

With regular chiropractic care, it is possible to treat these injuries. Chiropractic manipulation can also help improve the kids’ game by improving their power, agility, balance, and reaction time.

4. Bust headaches

There can be numerous reasons behind headaches in kids, including the cold, a head bump, or an earache. But whatever reason it may be, as parents, you want to do everything you can to help them. But, always giving medicines to kids is also not an ideal solution. 

Over 95 percent of headaches are caused by muscle tension in the neck or the back, and chiropractors can help ease the tension through spinal manipulation or adjustments. They can relieve the tension in the body and, in turn, help bust headaches.

5. Treat ear infections

At least five out of six kids suffer from ear infections at least once by the time they turn three. The reason behind ear infections can be many including sinus infection, viruses, and cold.

While strong antibiotics are often recommended by doctors, a gentler option is to treat ear pains  through chiropractic are.

Chiropractic adjustments have proven to be very effective for treatment of earaches. It can also help strengthen the immune system and manage your child’s pain better. 

7. Manage growing pain

Two out of five kids and teenagers suffer from growing pains in their lives. They can be in the form of throbbing pains and aches in the legs and arms. Sometimes they can be so bad that they can keep your little ones up all night. 

These growing pains are often the result of daily physical activities the kids participate in and it can often affect the spinal cord as well as the nervous system. A visit to the chiropractor can help ease the growing pains by taking the pressure of the spine.

8. Resolve any digestive issues

Kids can often experience digestive problems of many kinds like acid reflux, constipation, and stomachaches, and chiropractic treatment can help resolve them all. There are certain areas of the spine that are connected to digestion and if they are misaligned, then it can even lead to severe digestive issues. 

With chiropractic treatment, the spine can be gently aligned with a few adjustments and help with your kids digestion.

Help your kid get healthier 

By taking your kids to regular chiropractic care, you can help make them more healthier. Call us today at 678-505-0000 to book a 15-minute free consultation with one of our expert chiropractors, who will evaluate your kids’ state of health and help improve your their quality of life.