If you’ve visited Somerset Hills Chiropractic, you know the advantages of regularly getting adjusted quite well. But did you know that pediatric chiropractic care offers as many great benefits for your children? If your child is experiencing pain, struggling to focus in class, or dealing with issues like bedwetting, chiropractic may be able to help.
It is back to school season! Everyday our children experience physical, chemical and emotional stress while at school. Did you know that by getting your children adjusted it can help their bodies cope with these internal and external stresses! In turn it will allow them to concentrate more easily and decrease their likelihood of getting sick throughout the year. The doctors in our office are trained to provide care for infants and children.
Crawling as an infant leads to many positive neurological and structural benefits as a baby becomes a child and an adult. An old adage states that you need to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Those instructions offer sage wisdom. Research shows that a major component of quality health and development in a child trace back to cultivating a healthy spine. The spine houses the spinal cord and protects nerve roots while also playing home to densely populated neurons that help provide proper nutrition to the brain through movement. The spine serves as the motor for the brain.
Research shows children with learning, attention, and processing disorders experience a common brain and nervous system problem that traces back to the spine. Correcting the spine and nervous system seizes one of the biggest opportunities available to help children fully recover and prevent life-long chemical dependencies. Chiropractic plays a significant role in uniquely helping children reach their health potential by maximizing one of the most important nutrients used by the brain.
Children under chiropractic care report greater focus, better function, and healthier development. An example of the connection between chiropractic, the brain, and mental health took place in 1931. A group of 244 adolescent boys in the state of Kentucky were incarcerated because of criminal or behavioral problems. Documentation shows that almost 100 percent of them showed improvement in conduct following a routine of chiropractic care. 144 of the 244 boys were determined to be fit for parole soon after receiving regular Chiropractic care.
