Dr Drew explain Chiropractic and Child care
Channel: Hall Upper Cervical Chiropractic P.C.
Date: 2018-04-23

There is a general notion in the public that child don’t belong under the care of chiropractor.  Our Los Angeles offices have been taking care of kids for 16 years with great success. Most health problems that start later in life are the result of a childhood injury that is never corrected. The head neck junction is vulnerable to injury. Child birth which sometimes includes vacuum extraction or forceps can cause neck injury during the birth process.  Throughout childhood there are milestones that can lead to upper cervical spine misalignment. For example, when a child learns to walk on average they fall 2500 times a day. Childhood is rife with trauma. Sports, childhood falls, bike accidents and rough housing all can lead to a spinal misalignment at the base of the skull.

Vertigo and Colic in Kids-Los Angeles Pediatric Chiropractor

Recently we had two cases enter our offices. One child with severe vertigo came to our Los Angeles upper cervical health care office with the hopes of feeling better. He had been under traditional chiropractic care and was not responding so the doctor sent the child to our office.  We ran the child through our normal objective testing procedures and found that his atlas (C-1) was misaligned relative to the floor of the skull and was producing nerve pressure to the brain stem and spinal nerves.  The child received a precise correction with no twisting, popping or pulling. In fact, the correction is completely painless. Most kids say, “that’s it?”  The following two weeks the child’s vertigo subsided, and a few other benefits occurred also. On the child’s 4th visit the mom said,” we always thought that it was just his normal to have two bowel movements a week. However, since you corrected his atlas he has been having a bowel movement every day.”  Our response to patients who have these unexpected recoveries is, the central nervous system controls ALL function, and therefore if it functions better following an atlas correction anything can possibly improve.