Posture is the window to your child’s health!
20 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
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What you see, verses what I see !
We have all heard our mom’s say, stand up straight, and don’t slouch. Have you ever wondered why that is so important? I’ll bet most of the moms wouldn’t even realize how important those words are! Here is the reason I feel that those words are so important.
The spine is there to protect the nervous system and your nervous system controls every single function of your body. If the spine goes out of its normal alignment, the nervous system gets interfered with and this can cause the body to “malfunction”. In children, we may see things like restlessness, sleeplessness, attitude problems, and from tummy aches to headaches.
How do you know if your child could have a misalignment of their spine? Look at their posture! Start with the ears, look at them from behind and check the earlobes. Is one side higher than the other? This could be an upper neck misalignment. Also from behind, look at the level of their shoulders; does one go lower than the other? This could indicate a neck or mid back misalignment. Then put your index finger on the very top of their hips, again, is one higher than the other? This could be a low back or hip misalignment and can cause knee and feet problems. Watch them when they walk, does one foot turn in? Do both turn in? This could also indicate a hip misalignment.
Chiropractors are trained in locating these misalignments and correcting them. The younger the child is the greater success there is in actually correcting them to grow up straight and healthy! A pediatric chiropractor is specially trained in treating children, infants and pregnancy conditions. Pediatric chiropractors take over 300 hours of postgraduate education and have to sit and pass an international chiropractic pediatric board examination to receive the credentials of DICCP.
“Does your child get splitting headaches? Dr. Nancy Elwartowski is using chiropractic to help stop headaches, without the use of pain killers”
17 Nov 2009 2 Comments
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Don't let your child suffer any longer.
According to the American Chiropractic Association, nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. Dr. Nancy Elwartowski, a local Carmel, IN. chiropractor, is using chiropractic to successfully stop migraine headaches in hundreds of pediatric and adult patients who previously had little help from traditional medicine.
“Many of my patients felt like there was no hope for them,” says Dr. Nancy. “There is a large segment of our population who suffer silently with headache pain almost every day. They often turn to pain killers to temporarily stop the pain. But drugs only provide short term relief, it doesn’t fix the core problem at hand. We are using chiropractic to fix the source of the migraines and we are having excellent results.”
Is there evidence that chiropractic can stop headache pain? New research shows that spinal manipulation – the primary form of care provided by doctors of chiropractic – may be an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck.
A report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, NC, found that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for those headaches that originate in the neck, and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headache than a commonly prescribed medication.
Dr. Elwartowski says that in recent years the medical community has embraced chiropractic because it offers treatment without the use of drugs or surgery. “In treating headache pain, most experts agree that conservative care should be tried before more invasive treatments are considered. That’s what chiropractic offers. It has a long history of effectively stopping pain yet doesn’t require the use of prescription or over the counter painkillers that can have negative consequences. Chiropractic is all-natural and frequently is more affordable than other options. We say why suffer when you don’t have to? We invite people to come on down and explore if chiropractic might work for them.”
