I’ve had friends bring their children to chiropractors. Why?
Children have joints, muscles, ligaments and nerves just like adults, and as such, they can experience the same type of problems. Chiropractic is also a great treatment option for kids because it does not use drugs and is non-invasive. The best part is that children also respond much faster than adults so that usually just a few treatments are required. And correcting problems now can prevent permanent problems later in adulthood, particularly with conditions such as scoliosis. There are also two other specific problems that chiropractors treat quite often in children–colic and middle ear infections. There is some confusion and misinformation outside the chiropractic community regarding treatment of these conditions, as they are not the “typical” neuromusculoskeletal conditions. First and foremost, there are certain medical conditions that can cause these problems in infants and children, and these need to be evaluated medically, but many times there are still no definitive answers to
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