Chiro for Babies
What causes spinal misalignments in babies?
Why is chiro for babies so important? For 9 months babies grow and develop inside their mum’s tummies. As they get bigger this space can become quite confined and sometimes babies find themselves in an abnormal position. As babies make their journeys into the world they may experience a bit of stress. Both cesarean and natural births can cause misalignments in the spine as well as strain to their necks and cranial areas. Chiro for babies helps remove these spinal misalignments, removing tension off of the nervous system and allowing babies to grow in symmetrical alignment.
Chiro for babies can help with:
- Colic
- Reflux
- Difficulty latching
- Irritability
- Sleeping difficulty
- Asymmetrical crawling or rolling
First year of life
Your baby’s spine will lengthen more than 50% in their first
year of life, at no other point in their lives will this growth happen so
rapidly again. It is important to look after your baby’s spine, ensuring that
they are developing and growing in alignment.
Chiro for babies treatment
Chiropractic treatment for your baby starts with an
extensive history taking in order to find what is causing your babies
discomfort.
Each area of discomfort in your baby is treated differently
and with gentle and specific soft tissue manipulations. During the chiropractic
treatment your chiropractor will discuss different things you can do at home to
help your baby.
Chiro for babies research
The Cochrane Review on Manipulative Therapies for Infant
Colic showed that chiropractic treatment could reduce the symptoms of infantile
colic, specifically reducing daily crying time (1 hour and 12 min) and a
significant improvement in sleeping.
Is chiro for babies safe?
According to a review done by (Carroll, Mitchell, Robinson, & Todd, 2015), serious adverse effects in infants and children receiving manual therapy were rare. There was a total of 15 serious adverse events reported over 50 years. However 7 of the 15 adverse events were resultant from chiropractors and 4 of the 7 that were related to chiropractic care, had an underlying, pre existing pathology.
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