Pediatric Chiropractic for Children

A main concern for you as a parent is how to ensure each of your children have the opportunity to become their healthy best. Please be aware of the following:

• Many studies now show that achieving our best results as adults, on physical, mental, social, and occupational levels is, in large, shaped by the windows of opportunity opened to us during childhood.
• What constitutes a healthy response to the challenges that go with a normal childhood, have finally been appropriately redefined. Up until recently, a child was seen to be healthy when he or she had no symptoms. However, a number of studies now suggest that is not always the case and that health is better defined as the ability of a child’s body to interpret, and then appropriately respond, to environmental and lifestyle stresses.

The early years – from before birth to age six – are the most influential to your child’s development. During this time, children unconsciously learn how to respond to the environment and stress: the brain forms connections that set the stage for lifelong learning, behaviour and health. Healthy babies are more likely to develop into healthy children, and healthy children are more likely to grow up to be healthy teenagers, young and mature adults.

There is one system in your child’s body that is in charge of accurately interpreting the messages coming from the environment, and deciding which messages to send so that the body appropriately adapts. That system is the nerve system. It is the master control system of growth, repair and the function of every tissue and organ in the body. Chiropractors have undergone extensive training to become highly proficient at detecting and correcting one of the most common and often undetected causes of interference to a child’s nerve system, the ‘spinal subluxation’.

If your child’s body is stressed, either by physical, chemical, or emotional factors, there may occur a loss of normal spinal bone position and movement. This in turn causes a disturbance in the function of the nerve system. This loss of normal spinal function and accompanying neurological disturbance, are together, called spinal subluxation. Often this results in the impairment of your child’s nerve system to accurately receive, process, and respond appropriately to changes taking place within the body and in their environment.

One of the most physically, chemically and emotionally stressful events that we all go through in this life is being born. Because the birth process is unavoidably stressful, newborns are particularly susceptible to subluxations during birth. Such an injury may not be immediately obvious and, if left unresolved, may not become apparent for many years. To ensure your children get the right start in life, their spine should be checked as a normal part of post-natal care, to facilitate their optimum growth and development from day one. The sooner subluxations are resolved the sooner your children can begin taking advantage of their full potential.

Instead of focusing on treating the symptoms of a disease, your chiropractor helps your child resolve subluxations, allowing the full expression of the body’s inborn wisdom so that your children may experience life to its fullest. Your chiropractor will achieve this end by carefully making a series of gentle ‘adjustments’ to increase alignment and restore normal function to the spine. By resolving subluxations throughout childhood, your children will gain an increased opportunity for health, and will be better prepared to face all the challenges that life has to offer.

This gentle, effective approach can help everyone realize more vitality, no matter what the starting point. Our techniques are safe and appropriate for everyone at all stages of life – in health, and disease. If you have pain and symptoms, if you have received a permanent or terminal diagnosis, if you have low energy or fatigue, if you feel anxious, stressed and overwhelmed, if you want to make a change, increase productivity or experience a greater range of possibility in your life, we can help!

True health grows from the inside out, and at Wellroots, health and wellness is a family affair. Let us be your guide to discovering true prevention and lasting wellness for the whole family.