Chiropractic is one of the safest forms of health care. A baby's spine is very supple during the first few months of life and there are Chiropractic techniques that apply only a slight pressure to make spinal adjustments. Under normal circumstances, chiropractic adjustments are painless and will not hurt your child. In Chiropractic do not use drugs which sometimes cause more harmful side effects than the progression of many diseases.
Drugs can also create the potential for addiction, even in young children.
These are some of the reasons why malpractice insurance rates for chiropractors are only a fraction of what other physicians pay and why more than 30 million Americans choose chiropractic care for their children and themselves. In reviewing 31 years of medical literature the ICPA found only one questionable report of injury to a child following chiropractic care of a child. The above safety rate of chiropractic care for children should be compared to the adverse reaction rate for medicine described in the article below.