Case Study: Treating Colic Woes With Chiropractic Care
Solve Your Colic Woes with Chiropractic Care
Most parents will be familiar with the frustrating yet common infant condition known vaguely as colic. It’s considered mysterious, difficult to treat and leaves many new parents at their wits end. Don’t panic. Chiropractic care offers a simple, safe and effective treatment to colic.
What Is Colic?
Colic is a term used to describe excessive crying in infants, usually under the age of six months. You’ve probably heard many normal babies described as ‘colicky’ by their exhausted parents, but in reality, the crying experienced in a true case of colic is excessive, lasting longer than the expected time frame.
Usually, colic is diagnosed using the Wessel criteria. This designates a ‘rule of threes’ …show more content…
This isn’t always the case, however, and medical practitioners are often stumped when it comes to getting to the root of the problem and treating the baby safely and effectively.
The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractors have been successfully treating colic in babies for many years now, thanks to a safe, effective approach that treats the underlying issue rather than masking the symptoms with risky medications.
The childbirth process, while natural and certainly miraculous, can wreak havoc on your baby’s body. The ordeal of stretching and pushing through the birth canal leads to compressions in your child’s spine, potentially causing misalignment and pain. In the chiropractic tradition, we believe that alignment problems in the spine can have a knock-on effect on the rest of the body, causing problems with digestive functioning that leads to colic symptoms.
These difficulties can increase when any form of trauma happens during the birth process, such as the use of forceps or vacuum to assist in delivery, C-section surgeries or a prolonged pushing stage during labour. All of these can increase the chances of your baby suffering from
Most parents will be familiar with the frustrating yet common infant condition known vaguely as colic. It’s considered mysterious, difficult to treat and leaves many new parents at their wits end. Don’t panic. Chiropractic care offers a simple, safe and effective treatment to colic.
What Is Colic?
Colic is a term used to describe excessive crying in infants, usually under the age of six months. You’ve probably heard many normal babies described as ‘colicky’ by their exhausted parents, but in reality, the crying experienced in a true case of colic is excessive, lasting longer than the expected time frame.
Usually, colic is diagnosed using the Wessel criteria. This designates a ‘rule of threes’ …show more content…
This isn’t always the case, however, and medical practitioners are often stumped when it comes to getting to the root of the problem and treating the baby safely and effectively.
The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractors have been successfully treating colic in babies for many years now, thanks to a safe, effective approach that treats the underlying issue rather than masking the symptoms with risky medications.
The childbirth process, while natural and certainly miraculous, can wreak havoc on your baby’s body. The ordeal of stretching and pushing through the birth canal leads to compressions in your child’s spine, potentially causing misalignment and pain. In the chiropractic tradition, we believe that alignment problems in the spine can have a knock-on effect on the rest of the body, causing problems with digestive functioning that leads to colic symptoms.
These difficulties can increase when any form of trauma happens during the birth process, such as the use of forceps or vacuum to assist in delivery, C-section surgeries or a prolonged pushing stage during labour. All of these can increase the chances of your baby suffering from