I have been fortunate to take care of hundreds of kids in our practice. They respond so quick to care! Why, might you wonder would a kiddo need chiropractic care? Read on, my friend!

If an oak tree starts off crooked as a sapling, what is that oak tree going to look like when it’s 40 years old? Most of our complaints and issues today can be traced back to accumulated injuries that happened when we were youngsters.

I see it every day when someone lays down to get adjusted. One leg is slightly shorter than the other, one shoulder is higher, one hip is rotated slightly forward. We are made up of our habituated patterns and our body is a wonderfully magnificent compensating structure. That means our body amazingly finds a way to achieve balance to the best of its ability in an often-unbalanced structural pattern.

A child learning to walk falls hundreds of times on their bottom. A child going through growth spurts while playing a sport forms off-balanced patterns of movement. A bump on the head from a fall off a chair, from wrestling with siblings, from sledding or the trampoline, all those microtraumas accumulate. Our body is always doing the best it can with what it has and one reason kids are so quick to respond to care is that they don’t have near as many accumulated microtraumas that we do as adults!

Are kids in pain that see me? Rarely. The parents that have their kids come in for care realize their own health and well-being benefits from consistent care themselves and they want to set their kids up for success by starting them out in balance as soon as possible. They understand that most misalignments (subluxations) in the spine occur without pain. Once we feel pain somewhere in our back/shoulder/hip/knee/ankle, et cetera, usually there’s been something out of balance for quite some time.

So, we call it fine-tuning the spine for optimal performance. When the spine is adjusted, it stimulates receptors in the joints that go directly to the brain to stimulate healthy digestion, healthy balance and coordination, healthy immune function and improved learning, attention and memory. All documented and researched. Kids that get regular care (once/month visit or more depending on stress/activity levels) rarely get sick, rarely have any aches/ pains/ headaches/ and excel in school and sports. It isn’t a surprise when you realize how our amazing bodies are designed to heal from the inside-out. All we do with an adjustment is simply remove the interference to that process.It’s about doing the right thing, consistently over time that will give you and your kiddos the absolute best result.

And the adjustment itself? You might be thinking of the “WWF” when you think of chiropractic and you might be squirming in your seat when you think of “WWF” chiropractic moves on a kiddo. Not quite! I use a very gentle technique with kids, so gentle and effective that they argue with their siblings as to, “Who gets to get adjusted first!”

Most all top athletes, performers, entertainers receive regular and consistent chiropractic care/ check-ups. We provide that service at an extremely affordable rate for you and your family.