Give Your Child the Gift of Wellness with Chiropractic Care!

For children who are active in sports or other physical activities, chiropractic care can help prevent injuries and ensure their body is functioning at its best. By promoting healthy spinal alignment, chiropractic care supports the body's natural ability to heal and recover more quickly. It's also a great way to establish healthy habits early, as regular check-ups can detect and address issues before they develop into more serious problems. Overall, chiropractic care offers a gentle and effective way to support your child's health and help them thrive.

With a paediatric patient, the chiropractor will do a thorough assessment based on their age. We look at their primitive reflexes first in the earliest stages. When those fade, they're replaced with different reflexes, and children are screened for that progression. An assessment done in the range of a newborn to a 2-month-old will look different from an assessment done for a 6-month-old.

Your chiropractor knows exactly what to look for and what it means from an adjustment standpoint if certain reflexes aren't disappearing when they should, or beginning to develop for that matter and adjust the young child based on their findings.

Adjusting Leg-Length Discrepancies (also a condition we treat)

Leg-length discrepancies can also have a negative effect on a child's life through adulthood until corrected. While common, it can affect everything from the child's gait to their posture and knee hyperextension and cause back hip, knee, or ankle pain.

If it's caught early enough—typically before 11 in girls and 13 in boys—it may be corrected through chiropractic adjustments by about 1 millimetre a month. Measurements are done by X-ray. Care can include adjustments to the lumbar spine and pelvis and wearing a lift in the shoe of the shorter leg if the discrepancy is greater than 12 millimetres.