Dynamic Balance Chiropractic

Pediatric Chiropractic Care

Kids Aren’t Just Smaller Adults

When it comes to providing great chiropractic care for kids, we know that they are structurally and physiologically different from adults, and their care should reflect that. While the principles of chiropractic are the same in caring for kids, how we apply them is different, and specific to the age and stage of each child.

Newborns and Infants

Birth is stressful for babies. Even normal, uncomplicated vaginal birth imparts significant force on the baby’s head and upper neck. While sometimes necessary, medical interventions like epidural, vacuum extraction, forceps delivery and cesarean drastically increase those stresses further. Because the central nervous system is housed inside those same structures, and controls the function of the entire body, far-reaching consequences can arise from those forces of birth.  

Re-establishing normal function to the baby’s spine and nervous system as quickly and gently as possible is essential to facilitate optimal growth and development. Chiropractic Care during this time is the gentlest and most subtle, as they often don’t yet have muscle tone and tension or adaptive behavioural patterns of dysfunction to work against.

Toddlers

While they are simply setting out to explore their world, it often seems that toddlers set a daily objective to hurt themselves in some way. Stumbles, falls, bumps and bruises are common. At the same time, their little nervous system is developing at the fastest time in their lives!

Specific chiropractic care during this time helps keep them tuned-up, and ready to take on the world, and recover from the traumas and stresses they experience along the way.

School Age

The cognitive, emotional and physical demands of school years can be a lot to navigate for a nervous system under stress. That makes it even harder to adapt, adjust, and thrive in the school-age time period. A nervous system under stress can’t function optimally, and development, cognitive learning and executive functions can suffer. 

While kids in this age group are bigger and generally more structurally sound, they still aren’t just small adults, and their care is specifically designed to meet their needs at this crucial time.

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” ~Frederick Douglass

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