Visiting a chiropractor isn’t just for adults. In fact, children of all ages can also benefit from regularly seeing chiropractic professionals. Pediatric chiropractic care is a specialty that concentrates on treating infants, toddlers, children, and teens to help align their spine and balance their nervous system. A pediatric chiropractor has undergone specialized training to ensure that the care, evaluation, and adjustments they provide to kids correspond properly to their specific age, body type, and unique requirements.

Chiropractic adjustments on kids are safe, non-invasive, and use only light and gentle pressure to achieve optimal results, inside and out. Many parents comment that it looks like just a gentle touch, tickle, or massage. On bigger kids, we can incorporate fun activities into their adjustments, such as jumping.If you are considering chiropractic treatment for your child, you are probably wondering exactly how or what it can help with. If you’ve never seen an actual birth from the outside, you might not believe the beautiful miracle of birth is a stressful endeavor. The surges of hormones, getting hung up on the pelvis, the loss of progression, or just the fact of getting squeezed through the birth canal can all put stresses on the baby which could result in affecting his or her overall function after delivery.

Parents seeking Chiropractic for their infants will often do it as a wellness post-delivery checkup similar to a wellness medical office visit. This enables the Chiropractor to check the alignment of the baby and address anything that could add future stress to the developing child. Others will often seek Chiropractic for their infant, because they have noticed functional issues following birth like digestive issues, latching issues, torticollis (loss of range of motion in the neck), reflux or spitting up issues, or colicky issues. Older children see a Chiropractor to promote a broad spectrum of benefits such as supporting growth milestones, boosting brain development, enhancing immune health, aiding in digestion, reducing ear infections and allergies, improving sleep, reducing their risk of injury, improving mood, mental focus and ADHD, and more.

As a Pediatric Chiropractor, we can help restore function by eliminating any added stressors on the baby’s or child’s musculoskeletal, digestive, and neurological systems with our specific Pediatric Chiropractic adjustments and Craniosacral Therapy techniques.