Babies & Children
Your baby's spine will grow 50% in the first year! This makes it very susceptible to injury. Your child's spine must also develop curves in the neck and low back during that first year in order to continue growing properly in childhood. After that first year, the child's activity level increases, subjecting the spine to repeated physical trauma. Look at a child who's learning how to walk. Can you imagine falling on YOUR butt so many times a day? And have you seen older children playing on the playground? Those repeated stressors can cause vertebrae to misalign and affect spinal health.
All chiropractors are able to treat children; however, there are currently only about 60 chiropractors throughout the world who have pursued postgraduate training and testing to achieve Board Certification in Chiropractic Pediatrics and Pregnancy. Many parents turn to chiropractic card for their children, especially after trying conventional medicine methods without seeing any results.
Many more parents are bringing in their children soon after birth to have their spines checked; these babies are not sick! But, these parents realize that the birth process itself places stress on the developing spine. They don't want to wait until symptoms develop and there is a problem!
Read about how one of our patients OVERCAME COLIC through regular chiropractic care for their infant.
Antibiotic Facts
Parents, tiring of the antibiotic merry-go-round often seek out chiropractic care. Antibiotics are usually prescribed by medical pediatricians for ear "infections" (most of the time there is usually only inflammation or it is viral in nature) and "strep throat" (this is commonly mis-diagnosed without a throat culture). The symptoms will often resolve, but two weeks later the child once again has ear pain or throat pain and a second, third, or fourth round of antibiotics are prescribed.
The antibiotics upset the natural flora in the intestines and yeast is allowed to overgrow, causing allergies as well as decreased immunity. Children on antibiotics become sicker and more prone to developing diseases.
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Vaccine Facts
Conscientious Choice and Informed Consent for
Vaccination are Parental Rights
There are no conscientious choice exemptions for vaccination allowable currently in Texas. The Texas Department of Health already requires, by law, 33 doses of vaccines for 9 different illnesses. Mandates are in place for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and haemophilus influenzae b vaccines. TDH also recently added mandates for chicken pox, hepatitis A in some counties, and expanded hepatitis B for teenagers bringing the total to 36 doses for 11 different viral and bacterial illnesses by the time the child is 5 years old. To view PROVE's opposition to these additions, see Oppose New Vaccine Mandates. All mandates do not allow any room for flexibility based on parental choice.
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Here's what our patients are saying...
When
Gabriel was a few weeks old, he started demonstrating the beginnings of colic
like behaviors. He would scream, arch his back and was unable to be consoled.
Dr. Crisp had visited us in the hospital when Gabriel was born and we didn't
hesitate to take him to her as soon as he began to get colicky.
The day I took him to see her every muscle in his body was tight and he was coiled up like a fussy, miserable little spring. Watching his response to her treatment was absolutely amazing. With each gentle touch he gradually loosened up until he let out a contented little sigh and relaxed completely. He slept peacefully the rest of that day and his muscles never reached the state of tension he had been under before.
Every
couple of weeks I take him back to see his favorite doc, and now that he is
four months old, he laughs, giggles and coos his way through most of his adjustments.
I cannot imagine why any family would choose to let themselves and their
baby suffer with colic when pediatric chiropractors offer such an obvious
solution.
