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Following are some frequently asked questions about chiropractic care for infants and children. Click on the question to jump to the answer:
- Can Chiropractic Help My Child Do Better In School?
- A Word or Two About Pregnancy
- Vaccine Requirements for School
Can Chiropractic Help My Child Do Better In School?
NO WAY,
was likely your first response to this
question. To understand how and why chiropractic can help your child reach their
potential school or life you need to know that your child’s Innate
Intelligence, the life force that runs and grows your child has FIVE very
important functions in their bodies. If you take some time and ponder these five
functions you will see why chiropractic is the most important health care choice
you could make for your child.
Innate Intelligence has five basic functions in your child’s body:
1) Animation: It creates your child’s Life force, it animates their body.
2) Regulation: All body function and process. All of them. Nothing goes on in your child body that is not control by that life force flowing through their nervous system.
3) Adaptation: What do they need to adapt to Physical, Chemical, electrical & Emotional Stress. The same stress that you have to deal with, they have to deal with.
4) Healing: It is responsible for Healing your child: For whatever damage occurs as well as daily wear and tear. Maintenance.
5) Growth: Now in children, physical growth is easy to understand, but we are talking about Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual growth in every way there is. What we are talking about is your child having the ability to think at a higher level.
What could prevent your child’s Innate Intelligence from carrying out these five basic functions?
In chiropractic we call this interference, SUBLUXATION. I want to define this for you. Most people don’t know what it means.
Sub means less or decreased.
Lux means Light.
Subluxation means Decreased light or decreased Life Force.
You are not fully expressing the energy that you have. Interference to the full expression of your INNATE INTELLIGENCE through your NERVOUS SYSTEM is what a subluxation is. Not a bone out of place. This prevents body function and process from occurring NORMALLY.
This is how Innate Intelligence and Subluxations works:
Subluxation interferes with your child’s body ability to regulate, to adapt, to heal and to grow. When your child’s body decides where it is going to send its energy, first and foremost it going to make sure it is alive (animation). Second it wants to makes sure your child can survive, so it regulates them. After that it will try to help your child adapt to all the different stresses they have in their life. If there is any energy remaining, it will get to healing. And if there any energy left after that, it will finally get to support a higher level of thinking (growth).
Your child’s body only makes so much energy per day and if it is being used inefficiently because of subluxation in their nervous system, there is going to be less left over for thinking, doing homework and concentrating, which requires the most energy of any body function. Therefore if there is any interference in your child’s nervous system, their energy is being used very inefficiently and growth activities are going to be significantly stunted.
Ever wondered why your child keeps doing the same thing wrong over and over. Ever wondered why they are too tired to do their homework? If they were fully expressing their innate perfection, and thinking at that higher level, do you think these things would be a problem for them?
What is your child’s purpose in life?
This is a good question. Have you ever wondered what your child’s purpose or goal in life is going to be; why he or she was sent here? If you are like most parents you are not sure, but whatever their GOAL is you want them to express their purpose and potential as completely as possible. In order to fully EXPRESS their purpose, they first must be able to IDENTIFY what it is, don’t you think? Higher level thinking requires high levels of energy efficiency through your child’s nervous system. By limiting growth (higher levels of creative thinking), Subluxations interfere with your child’s ability to be aware of and to progressively manifest their destiny the way God intended.
What you can do as a parent to help your child to do better in School.
Now that you have an understanding about how your child’s Innate Intelligence, their Life Force runs, grows and develops your child, you are ready to learn how regular chiropractic care is going to help your child do better in school and fully express their potential in life.
The first thing you need to know is your child’s Innate Intelligence uses their nervous system to move back and forth between their brain and body. Any interference, subluxation, in your child’s nervous system forces their energy to be used very inefficiently, thus limiting the full expression of their innate intelligence, impeding their growth stage (higher levels of thinking).
With regular chiropractic care you are consistently removing nerve interference, subluxation from your child so that they can fully express their life. This is a process and all processes require time, we must trust your child’s God-given Life Force to heal, grow and develop your child at the right time and in the right way. This is the way you can give your child the greatest chance to do better in school and FULLY EXPRESS THEIR PURPOSE IN LIFE.
Chiropractic is about only one thing, removing interference to the full expression of your child’s Innate Intelligence. Their God Given Perfection.
Please give your child the opportunity to become the person God intended them to be.
Consider the following aspects of pregnancy that lead to subluxation;
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Rapid increase/decrease in weight
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Postural changes
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Changes in sleep patterns & positions
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Altered appetite and eating habits
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Loosening of body ligaments to allow for growth/labor
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Flat feet/pronation due to weight gain/loose ligaments
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Emotional changes (hormonal shifts/new family stress)
***** (Many of these affect Dad-to-be too!!!!)
- All of the above and more can cause subluxation, and this doesn’t even include any of the numerous changes Mom & Dad will both experience after the arrival of the “Little Miracle.”
- Remember, the subluxations you have during pregnancy don’t just affect you! They affect your unborn baby too!! Your baby needs your nerve system to be fully functioning in order to develop correctly.
- Studies have shown that women who have consistent chiropractic care throughout their pregnancies have shorter and less painful labors with fewer complications and fewer interventions.
- Of course, techniques are very different for pregnant women, and we are specially trained in this office to insure you the safest and best possible care throughout your pregnancy. ***(Make sure to ask about Bradley Natural Childbirth classes through our office!!!)
Minimizing your subluxations before, during and after your pregnancy will allow you, your husband and your new babies every possible advantage!
Vaccine
Requirements for School
What vaccines are required by law to attend childcare or school?
The topic of not vaccinating your child has become a hot topic, especially with the mercury that is used to preserve the vaccine in a multiple shot vial. If you decide not to vaccinate your child(ren) due the potential health risk associated with them, but know that they need them to attend childcare or school, and if you have attended the fall orientation before school starts, the school nurse will tell the assembled parents that it is state law that all students have to have their shots up to date before attending school.
So, what is
the truth about the mandatory vaccines requirements to attend childcare or
school? The truth is that as a parent
you have the conscientious
exemption right not to have your child vaccinated and attend public school or
childcare.
This is stated in Minnesota Statutes, 121A.15, subd. 3 of health standards, immunizations, school children, which can be found at this web link (http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/121A/15.html). The Conscientious Exemption states: No student is required to have an immunization which is contrary to the conscientiously held beliefs of his/her parent or guardian. To receive this exemption, a parent or legal guardian must complete and sign one of the following documents and have it notarized. You will find this conscientious exemption on each of the following forms - choose the form appropriate to your child's situation:
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Acrobat Access (free downloads from Adobe's Web site).
If you'd like more information, you can visit the MN Dept. of Health Immunization web page by clicking the following link: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/immunize/index.html
Some Important Thoughts on Children and Chiropractic
Common Questions From Parents
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How early should children be adjusted?
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Is it safe?
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Aren’t their bones still soft?
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Why do they need adjustments?
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What if they cry?
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How can we afford it?
All of these questions and more go through the minds of parents who are considering chiropractic care for their kids. Some parents are hesitant about getting their children adjusted even though they are under care themselves.
Our kids are so special to us that sometimes, in an effort to protect them, we become overprotective and deprive them of necessary and valuable experiences.
If chiropractic care is necessary to your good health and for reaching your full potential in life as an adult, then it logically follows that it is even more necessary for a child!
After all, they have nerve systems that control and coordinate all of their body functions just as you do. And, just like you, they can get subluxations that will interfere with the full outward expression of their Life force.
The only difference is that they still have an entire lifetime ahead of them in which to manifest the results of what they do today.
It’s
Never Too Soon
Subluxations can occur at any time. The first one may very well have occurred at your baby’s birth. That is why parents who understand the importance of being subluxation-free have their newborns examined by their chiropractor as soon after birth as possible.
By correcting subluxations at an early age, the damage that inevitably comes from functioning at less than optimal levels can be prevented. The longer a subluxation is present, the greater the damage. In addition, the longer a subluxation is present, the longer your child’s body will continue to “reproduce itself” (i.e., grow) in the wrong way!
“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree!”
Many people who come into a chiropractor’s office for the first time as adults would have had far greater potential for regaining their health if they had received regular chiropractic care as children.
Kids
Make Great Patients!
Adjusting a child is not a difficult procedure. In fact, in most cases, a child’s spine is much easier to adjust than an adult’s. They have not had the long-standing subluxations, their muscles are usually not as tense and they are usually more relaxed in general than adults.
Not only are kids easier to adjust, but also in most cases, they hold their adjustments for longer periods of time and their corrective adjustment plans are almost always significantly shorter than the average adult. However, with the falls, accidents and the generally active lives most kids experience, regular check-ups are vital.
It’s Worth The Effort
Chiropractic adjustments are generally painless. Children may, on the first visit or two, be somewhat reluctant. However, they rarely hesitate to get on the table to be adjusted, especially when they see that visiting the chiropractor is a family affair. When they see Mom, Dad and their brothers and sisters getting adjusted, they are usually more than willing to be checked for subluxations too.
We will work with you so that your children will become accustomed to their adjustments. In fact, in a very short period of time, most kids really look forward to their regular chiropractic visits.
Those children that are reluctant at first should be lovingly told that they must be adjusted and why it is so important (to keep their Power on!). As parents, we realize that our children are not going to like or enjoy everything that is good for them. Spinach is not enjoyable for most kids, and naps aren’t much fun either.
Chiropractic adjustments are vital to their good health, and the few tears that may occur on the first visit (usually because of fear of the unknown), are well worth the benefits to our precious little ones.
Obviously, children who are adjusted regularly from infancy think of their visits to the chiropractor as a regular part of their lives and are not the least bit hesitant to climb onto the adjusting table.
Chiropractic Care is Vital to Your Child’s Health and Life!
Lastly, it is of great importance that parents not think of adjustments for their children as “something they might as well do since their kids have come along to the office with them anyway.” Chiropractic care for your children is vital to their health and is an absolute necessity to their development and for actualization of their full potential in every area of life.
We have a Family Plan that makes it affordable for most families to receive the care they need. The money saved on treatments for illness is often enough to convince most parents of the benefits of family care. But, the peace of mind that comes from knowing that you have provided your children with the best possible chance to perform at their best is the greatest benefit of all!