Issues that affect children:

Birth: Due to a breech presentation or a difficult delivery that puts too much stress on the child's body. This can cause a subluxation, which is a misalignment of the spinal vertebrae. This causes blockages of nerves in the spinal column and leads to disharmony in the body. This disharmony allows lowered resistance to disease, organ malfunction, sickness, and disease. From birth children can and should be seen by a chiropractor.

Falls (accidents): Crawling, falling, learning to walk, running everywhere and climbing on everything is a normal part of childhood. However these “normal” next steps can dramatically affect your child's spine. If subluxations are developed it can damage nerves and cause long-term consequences. For this reason, periodic spinal checkups ensure good health and peace of mind.

Sports: Running, football, basketball, swimming, gymnastic, tennis, boxing, baseball, golf, soccer, ballet, and weightlifting are several of the sports whose athletes receive chiropractic care. 77% of NFL (National Football League) trainers refer players to chiropractors and 31% even have them on staff. Dr. Wilhoit and Dr. Dyhr have both worked with Olympic decathletes during their training to help improve movement, stress, reaction time, strength and much more. The spine being balanced not only improves the body's performance but also allows it to better protect itself. Chiropractic care is not only used after an injury to heal, but also before injuries to help prevent.

Allergies: When your immune system is 100% it gives you high resistance to disease and infection or sickness. When the immune system overreacts to an allergen such as pollen, it typically causes sickness known as allergies. The chiropractic approach to allergies is to locate and correct a serious type of spine and nervous system stress called the vertebral subluxation complex. By alleviating stress within the nervous system the immune system can function more effectively.

Scoliosis: The 24 bones of your spine are called vertebrae and are stacked on top of one another. They are not meant to be perfectly straight but excessive spinal curves or twists are abnormal and is called scoliosis. The cause is usually unknown but some are traced to conditions such as a tumor, infection, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, a birth deformity or disc problems. Braces may help restore the natural curve of the spine but lessen in the long term. The chiropractic approach is not to treat the specific disease but instead to treat misalignments of the spine. One report in Identifiable Causes, Detection and Correction journal titled Ideopathic Scoliosis , showed and improvement in 84% of patients when receiving chiropractic care.

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