Infant Colic
Chiropractic care appears to have an especially dramatic effect on colicky babies suffering from moderate to severe colic even with no dietary changes. Many results are reported within two weeks of care however in many cases great improvement is seeen after the very first chiropractic adjustment.
Birth trauma, stress on the infant's neck, head or spine may cause a vertebral subluxation complex in the baby's body. A vertebral subluxation complex is a spinal distoration causing nerve damage or stress that can have a wide range of effects on a baby's body. Colic may be one manifestation of this condition. Chiropractors have been studying and correcting this condition for over a hundred years in millions of infants, babies and adults.
Clinical experience has shown that the chiropractic spinal adjustment is very safe and comfortable even for newborns. A properly performed chiropractic infant adjustment should be barely noticed by the child. The child should never cry, should not feel any discomfort and in many cases responds happily to the release of nerve pressure. A sleeping child will usually sleep right through it. Every infant with colic should have his or her spine checked for the vertebral subluxation complex. It could not only make a difference between an unhealthy child and a healthy one, but between a sleepless parent and one
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