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Kids Need Chiropractic Too

Our children 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!


Chiropractic techniques have been developed that allow gentle, precise correction to the body and provide removal of nerve interference. Kiro Kids in Australia provides chiropractic care for children and provides continuing education for chiropractors who desire to improve their pediatric practices.

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is based on the important relationship between the spine and the nervous system. One of the most basic ideas in chiropractic is that dysfunction in the spine and its joints can lead to problems within the nervous system - and since the nervous system controls and coordinates all of the systems of the body, spinal dysfunction can have wide ranging effects on the body's health.

The first thing a chiropractor will do is to conduct a thorough history of your child's health and any complaints, which is followed by a complete physical examination of the child's spine. Most chiropractors are trained to evaluate pediatric spinal problems, and will use gentle, specific skills to find and treat any involved spinal areas.

Spinal adjustments for infants and young children involve very light fingertip pressure to correct spinal misalignments. This amount of force is usually sufficient to restore mobility to spinal and extremity joints which are causing interference to the normal function of the nervous system.

Specialised pediatric adjusting techniques often bear no resemblance to those often associated with adult. Careful taking of a health history followed by comprehensive physical examination and neurological tests help the pediatric chiropractor to determine if chiropractic care is indicated.

Chiropractic Practice Secrets

Claim your Free E-course Now on Motion Palpation

Chiropractic excellence is about a fervent passion for what you do, continuing upgrading of skills and educating your patients of their potential for great health when their nervous systems function optimally.

Continuing education is perhaps the most difficult element for any health practitioner to keep up with and fine tuning hands-on skills means endless hours in seminar rooms and conferences.

Dr Neil Davies D.C has a better way. He is offering a free 6 part series from his motion palpation and Adjusting the Child series to introduce other chiropractors to his training products.

Click here to claim your free e-course

Clinical Rounds

Unusual Cases to Get You Thinking

Chiropractors like all other health practitioners see similar patterns and may miss important signs of serious illness. Dr Neil Davies D.C. posts podcasts on his popular NeuroImpulse Protocol website and unusual cases can be seen here.

Listen to Dr Davies present his podcasts at Clinical Rounds and follow the links to find excellent study resources for chiropractic pediatrics.

How Do I Know if My Child Needs Chiropractic?

Most chiropractors believe in the value of regular health checks from birth and through childhood for the presence of 'subluxation'. Interestingly, subluxation does not just occur in the spine and in infants is just as likely to occur anywhere in the body.

Just as maternal health nurses perform wellness checks at prescribed intervals of weeks and months at certain milestone ages, chiropractors do not suggest parents wait until they observe unusual signs or symptoms before considering the worth of a health check up for subluxation.

However, when first time parents who are unfamiliar with this philosophy do think about attending a chiropractor, it may be for signs such as:

Breastfeeding difficulties in the very young such as attachment difficulty or preference to feeding on one side.
Restricted head or neck movement to one side.
A flattened head at the back or one side.
One shoulder higher than the other.
One lower limb longer than another.
Difficulty in neck, arm or hip movements.
Disturbed sleeping patterns.
Recurrent viral illnesses such as ear infection.
Colic/reflux and other feeding problems.

And the list of symptoms go on. There might be a childhood accident or fall that concerns the parent and they simply seek assurance from the chiropractor.

Regardless, most chiropractors find that small problems dealt with early do not become larger problems and the numerous falls, sports injuries, playground bumps, heavy school bags and postural pressures of the TV/internet age should not be ignored.

Can Any Chiropractor Care for Children?

Meet the Team
All chiropractors receive a basic level of training and many elect to educate themselves at post-graduate level. Kiro Kids in Victoria, Australia is staffed by chiropractors who all have chosen to study chiropractic pediatrics at an advanced level and meet the challenge of providing the highest standards of chiropractic pediatric care acclaimed by the rest of the local health community. Meet our own chiropractic team and you will see the level of further study they have each chosen to pursue.

Chiropractic Pediatrics - An Increasing Demand

NeuroImpulse Protocol
As more parents understand the importance of little spines being checked and cared for, more chiropractors are seeking rational, evidence-based literature and courses to improve their practice standards.

Kiro Kids has been at the forefront of continuing education for chiropractors and currently holds seminars in countries around the globe. Chiropractors with an interest in seeing children may wish to see the NeuroImpulse Protocol website provided by Dr Neil Davies, D.C. for continuing chiropractic education.

Chiropractic, Coughs & Colds

Immunity and the Nervous System

Chiropractic, Coughs and Colds
See this article in our Kiro Kids lens and take the quiz on clinical chest exam steps. Chiropractors are continually learning in order to care for childrens' health responsibly.

Children and Headaches

Is Chiropractic Always the Right Approach?

Headache in Children
Headache in children is common and chiropractic as a potential treatment is valuable. Read this article and take our 10 point quiz for chiropractors who wish to check if they know how to perform a neurological exam for children with headache.

Building a Chiropractic Family Practice

8 Chiropractic Nuggets For the New Chiropractor

The New Chiropractor
Chiropractic students and new graduates may receive advice on starting a family practice filled with children by clicking this link. Save time and mistakes following someone who's been there already and receive 8 Chiropractic Nuggets.

Kiro Kids Podcasts

Rational Chiropractic Examination and Analysis

Kiro Kids Chiroform Seminar
Kiro Kids takes great pleasure in announcing to the worldwide chiropractic community a once in a professional lifetime, totally unique educational experience in chiropractic paediatrics in partnership with Chiroform, a truly great Danish chiropractic company who have served the chiropractic and other health science communities of western Europe for 25 years and in that time have developed a reputation for openness, resolution, changeability, trustworthiness and humor.
Clinical Rounds
We introduce a new series of podcasts on clinical cases seen in the Kiro Kids clinics in Western Victoria, Australia. These cases are intended to be instructive in widening the chiropractor's perspective of subluxation assessment and diagnosis of medical disorders seen in everyday practice.
Adjusting the Child
The Kiro Kids teaching programme has become refined over many years of teaching, evolving into a unique and powerful assessment protocol using a unique step-by-step process. This neurologically based subluxation assessment protocol is now used exclusively in the Kiro Kids clinics and is taught in seminars worldwide.
NeuroImpulse Protocol
The NIP Basic seminar is the compilation of the earlier Adjusting the Child knowledge base with additional neurological examination techniques and subluxation detection methodology.

From cranial and upper cervical to lumbosacral and peripheral subluxations, a global neural perspective is utilised to demonstrate use of motion palpation, neurology, postural and compensation patterns, pain findings and muscle testing...and much more...to improve your ability in honing in and correction of the primary subluxation.

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Dr Neil Davies graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1977, completed a Certificate in Clinical Pediatrics at Phillip Institute of Technology,... more »

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