Birth trauma can occur with or without parents knowing. But your parental instincts may have picked up on your child expressing signs of discomfort since birth. Chiropractic care plays an important and gentle role in addressing these concerns and helps lay a healthy foundation from the start.
What does “Birth Trauma” look like in my child?
According to a well-known research study completed by Viola Frymann, DO, 9 out of 10 infants suffer from some sort of birth trauma. This means 90% of the studied infants suffer from some sort of “birth trauma” that includes strain in the neck and cranial areas. Birth trauma can be a result of two separate types of injuries: intervention-based injuries and natural-occurring injuries.
Intervention-Based Injuries
Naturally-Occurring Injuries
Birth trauma can occur without parents even knowing. But many of your parental instincts may have picked up on your child expressing signs of discomfort since birth that many medical doctors are unable to explain! These can be “symptoms” such as:
The Role of a Chiropractor for Children
Chiropractors are aware that these signs of discomfort can be due to misalignments in the cranium and spinal vertebrae during the birth process. These misalignments or “subluxations” place unnecessary pressure on spinal nerves resulting in a lack of communication from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. And this poor communication can account for the complications listed above that are seen in many of today’s children!
The techniques used by chiropractors to adjust infants are much gentler to compensate for the developing frame of the child. According to the ICPA (International Chiropractic Pediatric Association), the pressure used to adjust an infant can be compared to the amount of pressure you would use to test the ripeness of a tomato.
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