I was doing some research online the other day and found some information that I thought worthy to share with you.
I know that many of my patients are either parents or grandparents, and if you aren’t, this is still important information to know.
A recent study done late last year at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic has shown that chiropractic care provides a lot of benefit for children who have colic.
If you’re not sure what colic is, it’s generally defined as persistent crying, not likely to be soothed by a caring parent, mainly occurring in the late afternoon and evening in infants who are well fed and healthy.
Colic is a condition with no known treatment protocols that have been proven to be entirely effective, so having a study that shows positive results with chiropractic care makes chiropractic a reasonable option that parents may want to try.
By the seventh day of the study, crying was significantly reduced by about 2 hours on average. Four weeks later, colic had disappeared in 82% of the infants undergoing chiropractic care.
Pretty cool, huh?
The bottom line is that a properly functioning nervous system is just as important in infants as it is in adults. Stress and other imbalances have a negative affect on our bodies. In children this can cause colic and other symptoms. And as you can see by the results of this study, chiropractic care is proven method of helping children get healthy safely and naturally.
So if you know someone who has a child with colic and it’s not getting better, send them this article and have them give me a call and I’ll be happy to help them out.
Source: www.mycentraljersey.com, March 16, 2009
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Cool, our next door neighbor is a chiropractor and he has offered to look at and adjust our baby free of charge to help relieve some of that fussiness. Have any of you had this done for your infant and if so what was the result?