Babies and children area often overlooked as needing chiropractic care. The truth is that they are usually the ones who need it the most! If problems in the spine start as the child develops, it is now a priority to correct it early, before it causes future problems and eventually irreversible damage.
Kids don’t often complain of aches/and pains like we do as adults because they aren’t as in turn to their body signals and don’t have the ability to communicate them as well.
Babies with colic, feeding issues, reflux, torticollis, constipation, and poor sleeping should be checked by a chiropractor.
As your kid develops and gets older, recurring ear infections, poor posture, leg length differences, and curvatures in the spine are signals that could require chiropractic intervention.
The biggest concern that most parents have with adjusting their little ones is that they will be adjusted the same way as an adult. This is false.
For babies, usually the amount of force needed to adjust the spine is a pinky fingertip pressure that would be as comfortable as pressing on the back of your eyelid.
As the child continues to grow, more and more pressure will need to be utilized, until they are into the teen years and can generally tolerate a traditional chiropractic adjustment.
