Infantile colic is a curious and mysterious condition.
The first retrospective chiropractic study on treating colic was conducted in 1985, followed by a prospective multicenter study in 1989. The Danish National Health Service recruited 50 infants meeting the criteria for colic. The infants in the chiropractic group received an average of 3.8 adjustments. Had these four infants completed the study, they would have significantly affected the limited positive effect of dimethicone. Either spinal manipulation is effective in the treatment of the visceral disorder infan tile colic or infantile colic is, in fact, a musculoskeletal disorder, and not, as normally assumed, visceral.