All About Kids

Kids Love Chiropractic! Children enjoy coming to our clinic and getting their spines adjusted. At Cedar Creek Family Chiropractic, we have adjusted spines from hours old to 98 years old. Most parents take their kids for routine visits to the dentist for check-ups to help in preventing tooth decay. The concept of preventative chiropractic care has been starting to be recognized for its great value in preventing illness and disability. Spinal check-ups performed by a chiropractor could prove to be quite valuable in the life of your child. Not only is there trauma in childbirth itself, children are constantly falling, jumping, and running. These regular childhood activities are just a few of the many ways for spinal misalignments to occur. If not detected and corrected these misalignments, also known as subluxations, can have serious health consequences in the future. Many children visit Cedar Creek Family Chiropractic to find relief from ear infections, colic, bed-wetting, attention problems, digestive issues, scoliosis, allergies, asthma, back/neck pain, headaches, or just to keep their spines and nervous system well.

A ground-breaking study not only reported the safety and effectiveness of chiropractic care for children, but it also reported three unexpected improvements with their children while under chiropractic care:

1. Improved sleeping
2. Improved behavior and attitude
3. Improved immune system function

Even for newborns it's important to remove spinal misalignments. Dr. Mike and Dr. Abby adjusted their son hours after he was born to ensure his health and proper development. The importance of a healthy spine and nervous system is vital for your child's future. A healthy nervous system via a subluxation free spine insures that your child is better equipped to deal with everything from enhancing developmental milestones, sore throats, chickenpox, back/neck pain, to growing pains. Don't underestimate the bodies' natural healing power when it functions at 100%. By correcting subluxations, chiropractic assures that your body and your children's bodies have the opportunity to function at its best.

An infant’s spine grows almost 50% in length in the first year. If the child has a small problem it will literally grow into a larger problem, simply due to normal childhood growth.

5 Reasons for Kids to see a Chiropractor

1. Birth. Birth Creates trauma. Nine months in an uncomfortable position can create the beginning of future postural problems. In addition, pulling, twisting, pushing, forceps and vacuum extractions all cause trauma to the spine of a newborn creating subluxations and spinal cord damage that can be silent for years.
2. Our nervous systems, made up of our brain and spinal cord, control every function of the human body. Subluxations or interruptions of this communication network means our body can't function at 100%. This is not optimal health at less than 100%. 
3. Daily traumas of being a kid must be taken seriously. Running, jumping, falling, twisting are just a few of the mechanisms for childhood spinal injury. Furthermore, movements while changing a diaper, learning to use a walker, being lifted by parents, carrying a back-pack, physical demands of sports and sleeping behaviors all become the stepping stone for serious future difficulties if not dealt with immediately.
4. Prevention of problems. A healthy spine and nervous system helps to prevent common health problems experienced in children. Included in these are ear infections, colic, headaches, bed-wetting, asthma and other problems.
5. Posture. The old adage of "as the twig is bent, so grows the tree". Children's spines are subject to a number of different stressors and strains placing it at risk of future problems like scoliosis or a curved spine. To prevent this from taking place and causing future changes, regular spinal check-ups are important. Prevention at an early age is the key to deal with problems that could plague your children for a lifetime. More and more we find concerned parents visiting the offices of chiropractors throughout the world for spinal checkups.