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What are the Chiropractic benefits for babies and young children?

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Heather Camp
What are the Chiropractic benefits for babies and young children?

Whatever your age seeing a chiropractor for regular maintenance treatments can help you keep your body in optimum wellbeing. But have you ever thought about how young someone can start to see a chiropractor for care?

Well, chiropractic treatment is often the preferred choice of pregnant ladies to help them cope through pregnancy with their aches and pains due to the extra pressure to their bodies, so technically you don’t even have to been born!

Wow – that really is young! But why would a baby even need to see a chiropractor? And why do you see parents with their baby or young child in a waiting room of a chiropractic clinic.

If you would like to find out more about chiropractic care for babies look at this fantastic website where you will find information by chiropractors who love to see childrenwww.eastbourne-chiropractor-near-me.com

So, why would you take your baby or child to a see a chiropractor and what would be involved?

For many women the birthing process and delivery is not all plain sailing, and easy. Sometimes its long and difficult with complications and for these reasons the baby may start to become distressed. This may lead to the mum needing a little bit of intervention and help in the form of a forceps delivery or even a caesarean. This can obviously cause additional stress to the situation. Occasionally due to this a new born baby may take longer to settle after the birthing process. As a baby’s musculoskeletal system is still very fragile at this early stage the muscles and joints may be affected. Having a check with a chiropractor can detect any problematic issues at this stage.

Moving on a little, when a child starts to learn to walk and is more upright rather than crawling on their hands and knees this can also affect their posture. The body has got used to being on all fours and then has to adjust to just two limbs. This then puts increased pressure on their delicate spine and the muscles around it. If the increased weight bearing load puts to much strain its possible that the spine and pelvis will not function as it should and this could delay the walking process or even cause developmental problems further down the line if not corrected.

Take a look at www.backblog.co.uk for more chiropractic advice, self-help and tips.

So, what can a chiropractor do?

So how will an unsettled baby present itself and what can you look out for? Sometimes the baby may have difficulty feeding, particularly at the breast because they cannot turn their head to that side because it is uncomfortable. Maybe the baby cries a lot or is just irritable a lot of the time for no apparent reason. Maybe the baby doesn’t sleep very well and may lie with their head positioned to one side all the time. Or maybe the child is much slower to start crawling or walking.

Chiropractic care is very safe and for babies and children it involves very gentle adjustments of the spine that are especially modified for them and therefor will not cause any harm. In fact, babies and children tend to respond very well and often very quickly to chiropractic adjustments so the change in them can often be seen very quickly.

If you have had a difficult birthing process or have any concerns about your baby’s or child’s early development or if you would just like to find out more about how chiropractic care can help your child why not visit www.lushingtonchiropractic.com .   

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