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FAMILY CARE aka FAMILY
CHIROPRACTIC CARE
Should my whole Family come in for
Chiropractic care? Do you work on Children?
When infants and children come out
of our treatment rooms, we are often asked, “Do the children get
adjusted too? What did they come in for?” These are good questions and
it gives us the opportunity to explain that infants and children have
nervous systems the same as adults. They are susceptible to the same
stresses and traumas that we are. But since they are very flexible and
don’t have old injuries that have healed wrong, it seems those falls and
stresses don’t affect them. The fact is children sustain injuries just
as adults and they need wellness care like the rest of us (see our
“Wellness” page).
As we grow into teenagers, with
growth spurts, sports injuries and other “minor” accidents, small
injuries are collected and the nervous system compromised if the spine
heals incorrectly. We often see kids as young as five or six with hips
or shoulders that are unlevel, or the head tilted slightly to one side.
Scoliosis is screened for at 12 to 14 years old but many of these
problems are visible to a lesser degree when we are very young.
We are seeing in Chiropractic
research and in our office specifically, that children who get checked
regularly (and receive very low force adjustments when needed) grow
straighter and are sick less often than children who do not receive
care. This is because we remove the interference in the nerve
impulse/mental impulse/innate intelligence between the brain and body
and enable the entire body to work better…
How does the entire body work
better? Remember the entire body is controlled by the brain and nervous
system. This includes the heart, lungs, digestive organs, immune system
and literally all the other cells and tissues of the body. If any of
the vital nerve impulses are cut off between the brain and body, you get
a state of dis-ease or dys-function meaning the body is not functioning
optimally. As an example, if the nervous system is compromised at the
upper neck (by a spinal misalignment), it is like a kink in a garden
hose by where it attaches to the faucet handle. Some of the water is
still getting past where the kink is, but there is less water pressure
throughout the length of the hose. If the nerve energy is pinched up by
the skull, there’s less nerve flow to the rest of the body.
With this in mind, we recommend the
whole family receive Chiropractic care, not only when they have
symptoms, but on a regular basis to prevent problems and stay healthy.
Contact :McMullin & Stark
located in Los Alamitos, CA for safe and effective Chiropractic treatment of your
entire family.
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