Pros And Cons Of Baby Chiropractic - Dr Ekberg

is chiropractic safe for babies

and more importantly why would you want

to adjust a baby

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don't miss anything a lot of people have

misconceptions about chiropractic and

especially when it comes to adjusting

babies

so let's try to answer those questions

first of all chiropractic is perfectly

safe for babies but more importantly why

would you want to adjust a baby and

what's the mechanisms involved

so first of all

the body has three different functional

systems it has a passive system

with the bones

bones are not supposed to do anything

they're supposed to show up and don't

break and then they have done their job

but if a bone is misaligned or if a bone

is not moving properly if it's stuck it

is because a muscle is holding it there

so bones are passive it needs something

to act on them so muscles move the bones

but muscles don't make decisions

the brain

which is the regulating system makes the

decisions for the muscles

so if we have a misalignment if we have

a bone that's not moving the way it's

supposed to then it is a brain problem

and the way we want to think about that

is it's not a physical tissue problem in

the brain it is a software problem it's

a

misunderstanding it's a communication

problem the brain isn't quite sure

what to do it's not sure what the world

looks like and it's not sure what to

tell the muscles and as a result the

bone isn't where it's supposed to be

so in the body the brain controls

absolutely everything it controls

muscle tone it controls posture bone

joint position it also controls ph

and digestion and production of enzymes

and growth and healing and it does all

of this

based on feedback the brain can only

control things based on feedback from

receptors because the brain doesn't

actually see anything on its own it's

never seen or heard or touched or felt

anything all the brain knows is whatever

signals are coming back from receptors

in the form of feedback so i heard

someone say that oh you shouldn't adjust

babies they don't even have bones yet

well actually they do they do have bones

they're not quite as calcified as

they're gonna become later but they

certainly have bones but more

importantly they have muscles and they

have a brain and they depend on feedback

just as much as any other nervous system

so then we want to start understanding

also that the brain works with signals

we want to know what kind of things can

interfere with the signal because a baby

isn't up and moving much yet so it

doesn't have a history of trauma

and and physical injury and things that

can interfere from a traumatic stress

standpoint

but there are chemical and structural

and emotional aspects of the human body

and the nervous system

chemical structure and emotion they all

generate signals and they all have the

potential to interfere with signals so

when we're talking about this feedback

it can be distorted and interfered by

chemical structural and emotional

factors

and a baby certainly has those not only

is it born with all of those but it's

experienced most of that

during its time in utero as well so

chiropractic is certainly safe in our

office we use instrument adjusting we

use very very gentle pressure and on an

infant we might even put a finger in

between our little tapping instrument

we can also use an activator and we can

just use a gentle finger pressure if we

wanted to do that if we wanted to do a

manual so we just adjust the pressure to

the size of the patient but the key to

understand is

that it's the nervous system that we're

working with it is through receptors we

give the brain better feedback so that

the brain has more control and a baby

has chemical and structural and

emotional influences just as much as any

larger person

in our office we

welcome and we work with very small

infants we've had several that we have

adjusted in their first week of life and

the sooner you start the sooner you can

keep the nervous system from developing

bad habits so if you're born with an

imbalance and it doesn't get addressed

then to a certain extent the body can

compensate but it's always going to use

up more energy it's going to expend

resources to maintain that compensation

whereas we can make it run cleaner if we

address that and the sooner we do it the

quicker it resolves babies

respond amazingly fast compared to

adults

so i hope you enjoyed that and that you

learned something

i would encourage you to share this with

as many people as you can especially new

parents and grandparents or anyone else

who is involved with with kids and with

babies so that they can understand how

to best influence that child

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