Kids have spines too! As with most health challenges, the earlier treatment is given then the better chance of a healthy outcome. The chiropractic scope of practice includes the care of children and childhood is where many adult pain syndromes begin.

Think about it, from birth to poor sleeping posture (such as front-sleeping,) playground falls, sporting injuries and slouching at a desk in school. Our clinical observation is that very few spines reach the age of twenty without five to six significant traumas putting the spine out of normal function or alignment.

The long term consequences we know, from following whiplash cases for example, are premature degeneration or osteoarthritis. The short term consequences are numerous, from back pain, neck pain and headaches just the same as adults.

At LHCC family chiropractic care is encouraged so that everyone can experience the benefits of a healthy functioning spine and nervous system.

To discuss your children and arrange an appointment please contact one of our helpful receptionists today on 07 3801 5288 or make an enquiry here.

References

ICPA – follow the links to this website here for many articles on symptoms and conditions that chiropractic care can potentially assist.

It is important to realise that chiropractic is not the treatment of any condition. The purpose of chiropractic is to find and reduce stress and interference to the nerve system, allowing the person to experience greater function and an overall improved quality of life. (ICPA)

Before you take that painkilling pill for your headache or migraine, have you ever wondered what is causing it to be there in the first place and why it keeps coming back?

Headaches are one of the most frequent conditions seen in chiropractic clinics. Tension-type headaches account for nearly 90% of all headaches. (2)

One of the central goals of the chiropractor is to find and correct the underlying causes of your pain, symptoms and poor health. Pain is a good thing in some ways because it warns us that something is wrong in our body. Many headaches are referred pain from a spine that has been damaged or is not working properly.

The chiropractic approach is to locate find and correct abnormal function in the spine and support the new normal function with corrective exercises, postural advice and healthy lifestyle choices.

To discuss your headaches or migraines, get treatment advice and arrange an appointment please contact one of our helpful receptionists today on 07 3801 5288 or make an enquiry here.

Research Quotes

“Evidence suggests that chiropractic care, including spinal manipulation, improves migraine and cervicogenic (from the neck) headaches.”

View Article JMPT, June 2011 

PubMed 

“The results of this study support previous results showing that some people report significant improvement in migraines after chiropractic SMT.”

J Manipulative Physiol Ther2000;23:91–5

“There was an advantage for SMT (spinal manipulative therapy) over the control (group.) For the higher dose patients, the advantage was greater.”

The Spine Journal 2010 (Feb):   10 (2):   117-128

“For cervicogenic headache, spinal manipulation is recommended.”

JMPT, June 2011, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 274–289 

“Several clinical trials indicate that spinal manipulation therapy may help treat migraine headaches. In one study of people with migraines, 22% of those who received chiropractic manipulation reported more than a 90% reduction of attacks. Also, 49% reported a significant reduction of the intensity of each migraine.”

“In another study, people with migraine headaches were randomly assigned to receive spinal manipulation, a daily medication (Elavil), or a combination of both. Spinal manipulation worked as well as Elavil in reducing migraines and had fewer side effects. Combining the two therapies didn’t work any better.”

“In addition, researchers reviewed 9 studies that tested chiropractic for tension or migraine headaches and found that it worked as well as medications in preventing these headaches.”

University of Maryland Medical Center  Migraine headache | University of Maryland Medical Center 

“A paper published in the International Headache Society’s journal Cephalagia in 2011 found that manual therapy was more effective in dealing with headaches than regular GP care when dealing with headaches. The study found that after a short course of manual therapy, three quarters of participants reported that the frequency of their tension type headaches had dropped by 50 per cent.”

European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation

Article summary here

Adverse Events

“Adverse events were not addressed in most clinical trials; and if they were, there were none or they were minor.”

JMPT, June 2011, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 274–289 

References

1. The Global Year against Headache 
2. Wikipedia

Around 25% of the average chiropractic practice is seeing patients with neck pain.

Neck pain is a common form of spinal pain often caused or aggravated by by poor posture, trauma, arthritis and emotional or mental tension.  Pain, aching and tension can come from muscles, joints, discs and pinched or irritated nerves or other soft tissues.  Only rarely is neck pain caused by a more serious problem.

Chiropractic care for the neck can reduce pain and inflammation, increase range of movement, relax supportive muscles and restore normal neck functioning.

Chiropractic is the science and art of applied anatomy which means that chiropractors understand from their training where structures should be and how they should work.  The process of retraining and rehabilitating these structures back to their normal function leads to a natural resolution of pain and symptoms.

Treatment involves a variety of techniques chosen according to a patient’s individual and age, body type, the presenting problems and their specific needs.

To discuss your neck pain, get treatment advice and arrange an appointment please contact one of our helpful receptionists today on 07 3801 5288 or make an enquiry here.

Research Quotes

“Chiropractic care improves symptoms in patients with neck pain, and was shown to influence brain pathways related to sympathetic nervous system relaxation and pain reduction.  Patients in the treatment group also reported reductions in stress and improvements in quality of life.”

– Altern Ther Health Med, 2011

“…patients suffering from back and/or neck complaints experience chiropractic care as an effective means of resolving or ameliorating pain and functional impairments, thus reinforcing previous results showing the benefits of chiropractic treatment for back and neck pain.”

– Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Verhoef et al. (1997)

“Statistically significant decreases in neck pain, arm pain and NDI scores were noted at one and three months compared with baseline scores” for patients with cervical (neck) disc herniations (CDH)undergoing spinal manipulative therapy.”

“Most patients in this study, including sub acute/chronic patients, with symptomatic magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed CDH treated with spinal manipulative therapy, reported significant improvement with no adverse events.”

– JMPT, 2013 

“For elderly people with chronic neck pain, “spinal manipulative therapy with home exercise resulted in greater pain reduction after twelve weeks of treatment compared to both supervised plus home exercise, and home exercise alone.”

– The Spine Journal, 2013 

References

• Mayoclinic
• ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Some more references for neck pain studies and chiropractic:

•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22314714
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839918/
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23948425
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2565115/
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19119388
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2485362/pdf/jcca00018-0049.pdf
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12419654
• ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15125860
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20538501
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16949939
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24262386
•  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24225010