Many of the most viewed health websites, including WebMD and the Mayo Clinic, define Chiropractic as a “treatment primarily used as a pain relief alternative to muscles, joints, and bones… The goal of the procedure is to improve spinal motion and physical function.” This sounds great if you’re an athlete or have been in an auto accident, but what about the friend who messaged, “Chiropractic helped everything with my kids.” How exactly did muscle, bone, and joint treatment help a child?

We believe that the real secret sauce is that chiropractic works on the body’s communication and “Air Traffic Control” system, the central and autonomic nervous system.

Stress on the nerves could lead to stress and dysfunction in not just joints and muscles within the body but different organs and other major systems.

Just like in traditional medicine, there are different specialties within chiropractic. While it’s true that many chiropractors focus primarily on back pain and sports injuries, an entire group of experts focus on the nervous system, pediatrics, prenatal, and family care!

When the nervous system is struggling, chiropractors want to look back to find the root cause(s) of the distress and dysfunction, whereas medicine typically seeks to just cover things up with medication.

One of the most significant stressors that few parents are aware of yet for infants and children is birth trauma. The amount of physical and chemical stress added to the birth process in the modern era is, in our opinion, the single most significant detriment to the health of our children. It is the single biggest hidden secret in health care, and we’ve got to let more parents know that their child’s cycle of sickness and stress likely started right at the very beginning!

Yes, things like gluten, dairy, and toxins are a detriment to our kid’s health and well-being, but birth trauma is genuinely something that can have lifelong negative consequences if not discovered and properly cared for.

What Makes Neurologically-Focused Pediatric Chiropractors Different? 

In order for a family chiropractor to focus on the nervous system, they need to incorporate an incredible piece of technology called the INSiGHT Scan. It’s not enough for a neurologically-focused family chiropractor to just talk about the nervous system; they actually need to measure and track its function as care progresses.

This wildly safe, effective, and accurate technology measures the exact amount of stress, tension, and dysfunction within the nervous system. It provides clear reports to parents and practitioners that help them form an exact customized care plan to take care of it!

This stress and tension within the nervous system is called subluxation, and again it is most commonly caused in the very early stages of life by things such as prenatal distress and birth trauma. Subluxation and its related dysfunction often build up for quite some time without symptoms, which is why our favorite INSiGHT scans to run are on brand-new infants and wellness patients, helping us catch any stress and dysfunction long before it starts to cause trouble!

What Can Chiropractic Care Help With?

Since the autonomic nervous system controls and modulates every single cell, tissue, and organ in the body, the benefits of chiropractic care become incredibly far-reaching! You can best understand the multiple benefits of chiropractic by looking at it through the lens of a condition called dysautonomia.

Honestly, this is perhaps the most confusing part of chiropractic – how can it be so simple? Most parents are so used to the current medical system, where there is a different specialist and kind of doctor for every system of the body (ENT, GI, neurologist, etc.) … and none of them seem to communicate or coordinate very well together (you know, sort of like subluxation)!

With more and more stressors happening so early in development, it is no surprise that symptoms follow. From nursing, sleeping, and pooping challenges in newborns, to ear infections and colic with babies, to sensory and behavioral challenges when children start grade school… all of these can be attributed to The Perfect Storm, which is our term for the seemingly endless cycle of stress on a child’s nervous system that happens far too often these days.

What Are the Benefits of Chiropractic Care?

When families get stuck in this cycle of sickness and stress, it can be overwhelming and challenging to know what to do first. Unfortunately, for many, the question isn’t how chiropractic care can help.

Traditional medicine just offers more referrals to specialists and more medications. Then, when parents get on the internet and join various Facebook Groups looking for help, it can be overwhelming with the litany of recommendations that come from that – diet changes, detoxes, supplements, essential oils, and so on.

This is where the simplicity of chiropractic comes in, and we look at the body as a whole, not just symptom by symptom or system by system. We focus entirely on removing neurological interference and imbalance safely and naturally, without drugs. Once we get that child’s nervous system calmed down, balanced, and regulated once again, it’s no wonder they start experiencing the following:

• Sleeping better
• Having better regularity with their digestive system
• Calming “busy brain” symptoms tied to ADHD and Anxiety 
• Being able to calm Sensory Processing storms easier.
• Overcoming more complex developmental or cognitive challenges

Chiropractic doesn’t “treat” the direct symptoms; it simply allows the body to naturally do what it wants to do – function with ease. Then, continue to grow, develop, and thrive by self-healing and self-regulating!

So, can chiropractic care help? It sure can, and we hope you find yourself on a similar journey and find a doc that’s right for you!