Making a Difference for Your Child

--Dr. Margaret Munsey,

NUCCA Doctor of Chiropractic

Children are often found to be especially responsive to upper cervical care. Misalignments in children generally heal in even fewer treatments than with adults. Muscle and ligamentous tissues are especially resilient; thus the child’s body heals quickly. A child benefits from being in alignment during their growing years for the rest of his or her life.

Commonly, adult patients begin as upper cervical patients with physical complaints that are due to an injury experienced long ago as a child. Examples of spinal injuries experienced in childhood can include: falling down hard on one’s tailbone or head, being yanked forcefully on the arm by another child, trauma experienced during childbirth, automobile accidents, and athletic injuries. A child will often appear to bounce back quickly from spinal injuries, and chronic symptoms will not often occur until later in life. If one’s body has been compensating for spinal misalignment for most of one’s life, the healing will be a more extensive process, as the body has designed itself around that injury, and movement patterns and balance cues must be re-learned.

Catching a misalignment early on requires only a simple spinal check, is easily treated, and pays off in one’s health for the rest of one’s life.

We encourage all children to come in to be checked for spinal alignment. When indicated by a spinal screening, receiving upper cervical care at a young age can prevent physical problems throughout the rest of one’s lifetime.

A balanced spine allows the nervous system to function at its maximum potential. This, in turn, creates improved efficiency in all the body’s systems, affecting the immune system, balance, coordination, digestion, sleep patterns, and overall health and well being. Parents of children who receive upper cervical care report that their children get flus and colds less often than they did prior to becoming patients.

While treatment for general health maintenance is invaluable, there are specific children's health conditions that are treated effectively with upper cervical care. Examples of these include ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), infantile colic, nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting), and chronic otitis media (recurrent ear infections). If you would like to read up on a particular condition, case studies on upper cervical treatment for these conditions can be found in The Occipito-Atlanto-Axial Subluxation Complex: a Review of the Scientific Literature, by Kirk Eriksen, D.C. There is a copy available in our waiting room.

Because we want to help children grow up healthy and do all we can to ensure optimal health throughout the rest of their lives, we are offering a family plan. Prices are discounted for children. Call our office for details on the breakdown of fees for each age group. Because check-ups are an integral part of maintaining spinal balance, we encourage them in all our patients. When both a parent and their child (17 and under) have appointments on the same day, children receive check-up appointments at no charge.

Call us if you have any questions about your child’s care. We’d love to talk with you!

Precision Spinal Care

(206)547-6370