This is not a fringe view, but rather an echo of statements made in official chiropractic literature. Chiropractic care at an early stage could prevent many common childhood disorders from developing. Example of Ontario Chiropractic Association Web information about children and chiropractic. Colic and irritability are examples of symptoms that can be caused by subluxations. And many chiropractors and chiropractic organizations claim that babies are, in fact, born with subluxations.
Vertebral subluxations have many causes.
Many chiropractors go much further in their claims about subluxations and childhood disease. See a collection of pediatric chiropractic Web sites Among health professionals, only chiropractors believe that subluxations exist and that they cause ill health. And though the profession has existed for more than 100 years, they have still not proven the existence fundamental premise of chiropractic - the subluxation. And every time scientists and medical practitioners have sat down to evaluate the chiropractic notion of subluxation they have come to the same conclusion. It's just rhetoric.