Did you know Chiropractic care can start for kids as soon as they’re born?
That’s right, Chiropractic care is for more than just adults with aches and pains; it helps kids grow and thrive into the best possible version of themselves. Not only is getting adjusted safe for children and babies of all ages, shapes, and sizes, but it is also extremely effective in many different ways. In childhood, some common things kids struggle with include:
- Trouble sleeping
- Ear infections
- Headaches
- Colic
- Behavioral challenges
- Cognitive delays
- Milestone misses
– ALL of which can be helped with Chiropractic care!
Here at Perfect Touch Chiropractic, we not only help your newborn, toddler, kiddo, or teenager feel better, but we help their bodies function better so that colic goes away, crawling is not skipped, the math test is aced, and their football game is won!
It is never too early to address your health, and the same goes for your kids. Your child does not need to be struggling, sick, or injured to see a chiropractor. In fact, the majority of parents take their child to the Chiropractor just to ensure that they are not missing anything and that their kiddos are thriving!
Sometimes, especially really early in life, our babies and children struggle to communicate with us just exactly what is going on. A Chiropractor can help navigate that delicate time with you and aid in anything the child may be attempting to communicate. If there is something going on, it will be easier to fix right away than to wait for months or years down the road when the problem only gets worse and therefore harder to fix for the child. Besides, if the root cause of the problem could be fixed without putting your child on a medication that could potentially negatively impact their body forever, wouldn’t you want to give it a try?
$49 New Patient Special
Includes Full Health History, Consultation, All Necessary X-rays, Complete Spinal Exam & Report of Findings. NON-PARTICIPATING with Medicare and Medicaid, x-ray fees will apply.
How Our Care Plan Works
1. Meticulous Measurements
At Perfect Touch Chiropractic, we offer more than just Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care. Our expertise spans multiple therapeutic techniques, including manual and Activator adjustments, ensuring personalized care for individuals of all ages and sizes. Each treatment is tailored to restore balance and promote optimal health.
2. Tailored Adjustments
Our therapeutic adjustments provide lasting relief from pain, decrease joint stiffness, and increased range of motion, enabling the body to naturally move freely again. With each adjustment, we work to restore alignment, promote flexibility, and support a balanced, pain-free lifestyle for optimal wellness.
3. Regain Your Freedom
Personalized treatment plans and tailored adjustments address the root causes of pain, helping patients regain freedom in their health, movement, and well-being. By restoring spinal alignment, optimizing nervous system function, and reducing stress, individuals live pain-free, regaining full vitality and expression.
How We Treat Kids at Each Stage in Their Development in Hartland, WI
Newborn Chiropractic (Birth to First Month)
A newborn should see a Chiropractor just to be checked to ensure that everything during the birthing process went smoothly. Think about it, birth is one of the most, if not the most, physically stressful things we will encounter in our entire lives. Anything can happen; babies can be twisted, pulled, vacuumed, choked, or forced to do something that their delicate little bodies do not want to do or cannot handle. This is why it’s important to get checked by a Chiropractor immediately afterwards, to ensure there are no subluxations, or bones that are out of place and putting pressure on the nervous system, within the baby’s spine.
Subluxations could lead to pain, colic, asthma, skipping or missing milestones, or scoliosis, to name a few. Adjusting subluxations in a newborn takes about the same pressure as checking for the ripeness of a tomato, so it’s a lot more gentle than what they just went through at the hospital. Seeing as this is their first day in the real world, don’t you think it’s important they’re set up for success from day one?
Infant Chiropractic (First Month to 1 Year)
Chiropractic care in infants is not too much different than in newborns. Light, gentle, non-invasive, and specific Chiropractic adjustments can be extremely effective in infants less than a year old. When seeing a Chiropractor, they can check to make sure the baby is hitting all of their milestones, picking up their head, tummy time, crawling, and walking. If a baby is not hitting their milestones, it will play a crucial role in their overall body development.
Chiropractic care can help the baby to have an optimized nervous system so that if there are any physical misalignments in their spine they can be addressed and fixed and normal growth and development is not inhibited or challenged. It is best to identify and correct these issues early on so that the foundation of the rest of their entire lives is laid down correctly.
Chiropractic for Toddlers and Preschoolers (1-3 Years)
When was the last time you watched a 1-year-old walk? Were you on the edge of your seat waiting to jump in and save the baby from falling over or bonking their head? Toddlers are extremely prone to injuries and subluxations and need to be regularly checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic!
Adjustments in toddlers are light, gentle, non-invasive, and specific, and can be extremely effective in children aged 1-3 years old. When bringing your toddler to a Chiropractor, they can check to make sure that the process of learning to walk and run has not taken its toll on their body, like it all too often does. Everything is new territory here, and making sure the habits our kiddos form in this crucial stage are actually good can lay a proper foundation for the rest of their growth and development.
Chiropractic care can help toddlers have an optimized nervous system so that if there are any spinal misalignments or injuries, they can be addressed and not missed, only to find out about years down the road when it is irreversible. Toddlers’ bones and muscles are extremely malleable at this stage, so not only is it important to get them checked if they bonk their head, but also to get them checked regardless of injury to ensure everything is going the way it should be at their age!
School Age (5-12 Years)
Watching a kiddo turn into a pre-teen can be fun, nerve-racking, confusing, and hard. Chiropractors are here to make your life less hectic by making your child’s life easier. Things we look for in school-aged children include, but are not limited to:
- Scoliosis
- Pattern development
- Subluxations
- Cognitive delays
- Physical abnormalities
- Pain
At Perfect Touch, we see the severe cases, so when any case of any severity walks through our doors, we are prepared. It is never too early to see a chiropractor, nor is it ever too late. Regardless of the situation, we are here to help!
In kids, the ages 5-12 are a very delicate time and can be filled with ups and downs, surprises, and unexpected costs. We can help you navigate through the highs and lows, and hopefully help you cut some costs by allowing your children to grow, change, and heal more optimally.
Chiropractic for Teenagers (12-18 Years)
One of the most pivotal, unique, fast-paced, and life-changing times in our lives is our teenage years. This is also when parents sometimes find out what has been happening in their child’s life for years; they were just never able to properly communicate it with them.
“I’ve been getting headaches forever, Mom,” or “I never could use my left arm since I fell off my bike that one time when I was 5” are two examples of how it may sound when you find out your child has been experiencing pain for a long time without you knowing.
It’s not a bad thing, and you’re not a bad parent because of it; it is just simply a normal stage we go through as parents when our children become young adults. Chiropractic can help you navigate these ever-changing waters and make your life and your teen’s life better.
- Headaches
- Neck pain
- ADHD
- Scoliosis
- Sports injuries
- Autism
- Asthma
- Hormonal changes or struggles
- Difficulties running, playing a sport, opening up to others, or having social anxiety
– are all common things parents bring their teenagers to Perfect Touch Chiropractic for.
We are here to be your partner in health, no matter what age you are, what your symptom is, or whatever you or your teenager is going through.
Common Childhood Conditions That We Have Helped in Hartland, WI
Breastfeeding Problems, Ear Infections, and Colic
A newborn child, an infant, and a toddler alike can all struggle with three common things that Chiropractic care has major success with: breastfeeding problems, ear infections, and colic. One of the most common reasons for all three of these things is an upper cervical misalignment, specifically of either C1 or C2. If a child, infant, or toddler is experiencing an upper cervical misalignment, it could make turning their head to one side difficult, cause a physical movement, displacement, or alteration of the structures of the head or neck, and sometimes even cause pain. The one thing these three ailments have in common in a young child is that they cannot always be expressed.
If a child has a cervical spine misalignment, it could cause pain, which would lead them to cry and have “colic,” and no matter what you do, nothing works to calm or soothe them. That is because no medication will fix the misalignment of the neck; only precise upper cervical Chiropractic care can. Furthermore, this same upper cervical misalignment that can cause pain can also cause them to not be able to turn their head, either due to a physical restriction or pain. If a young child or baby cannot turn their head properly, they will not be able to breastfeed and grow to their fullest potential. Finally, if this same cervical spine misalignment causes a physical alteration or movement of the structures of the head, who is to say it is not the exact thing causing the eustachian tube of the ear to be abnormally tilted and causing fluid collection and therefore ear infections? See how we could keep going?
Upper Cervical Chiropractic care for kids can be everything, something, or very rarely nothing. What we mean by this is that due to your body’s control center being your brain and spinal cord, if you have an alteration or compression at any level, the results can be drastic and vary. It is important to get a child checked for subluxations in their spine as soon as possible to ensure that if anything is going on, there are no physical subluxations in the way, impeding the child’s healing process.
Issues with Crawling, Standing, and Other Movements
Children go through many stages of development, and it is important to know every single one! Milestones are important for a reason, and if your child is skipping ones, it is not always because they are “more advanced”; it’s actually more likely that the exact opposite is true.
Children will sometimes skip milestones because they are unable to do them for some reason, maybe it’s a tight or even underdeveloped muscle, a subluxation, or compensation. Regardless of the reason, these milestones lay the foundation for proper growth and development and should be addressed. For example, tummy time is more than just playtime; it is extremely important for cervical curve development, which is responsible for 15% of your overall health. If your child does not develop a proper cervical curve from the get-go, you are setting your child up for an increased risk of chronic disease, early degeneration, and surgeries.
You can look up normal growth milestones online, and if you see that your child is behind, ahead, missing steps, or skipping steps, bring them into Perfect Touch to be examined so that proper development can be achieved!
Sports Injuries, Development, and Scoliosis
Kids can get themselves into all kinds of binds, especially injuring themselves in sports. Sports injuries are another very common reason parents bring their child to the Chiropractor. Just like adults, kids can get injured and have a bone moved out of place. However, in kids, you have to worry about a very long future ahead of them, and if they do not get that bone adjusted and corrected by a Chiropractor, they are risking abnormal development, early onset of bone or disc degeneration, and pain at a young age. Injuries can create so much physical and mental stress for a child, and in a world and life that is already stressful enough, there’s no need for it when an easy and natural fix is with a Chiropractor!
Normal anatomy of the spine, or lack thereof, also plays a role in not just regular health and wellness, but especially in sports injuries and prevention. If you suspect your child is suffering from abnormal growth and development, or has scoliosis, it’s important to get them to a chiropractor immediately.
Here at Perfect Touch Chiropractic, we recently had a child come to us in a lot of pain due to a scoliosis brace. Within 3 months, we had her out of the brace and pain-free. We let our reviews speak for themselves, so please go check them out and come see us if any resonate with you or your kiddos!
Asthma, Bedwetting & Constipation, and Nausea & Vomiting
When you were a child, did you wet the bed? Embarrassing, scary, and something you never want to happen again, right? Well, what if you couldn’t help it, no matter what you or your parents did or said, you woke up every morning covered in urine? Unfortunately, this is a reality for a lot of children, teens, and young adults. But this happens with more than just bedwetting; it happens with things like asthma, constipation, and nausea & vomiting. These are not “normal” things that happen to a child; they are instead indicators that something is going on in the child’s nervous system that needs to be addressed!
If a child’s spine has a bone that is out of place (or subluxated) in the neck, mid-back, or low back, it could lead to an alteration of the nerve signal to the corresponding organ. The thing about subluxations is that they do not always cause pain; they sometimes just cause difficulties for the child to do normal things like breathing, using the bathroom at appropriate times, and eating or digesting a meal. Chiropractic care can not only find these subluxations, but it can also correct the misalignment and restore natural function to the organ.
For every symptom is a cause, and just because the most common approach is a medication, does not mean that has to be the only answer. We here at Perfect Touch Chiropractic use a natural, drug free approach to helping children and adults of all ages, with or without pain, struggling with anything.
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925 Walnut Ridge Dr, Suite 250, Hartland, WI 53029
Frequently Asked Questions
Is chiropractic safe for a child?
Chiropractic care is safe, gentle, and effective for newborns, children, teenagers, and adults. Perfect Touch Chiropractic uses the most gentle approaches out there and has a technique for every type and size of body!
When should you take children to a chiropractor in Hartland, WI?
Not all problems cause symptoms right away. It’s important to find out what the root cause of the problem is and fix it before putting your child on a medication or doing a procedure that could potentially negatively impact their body forever.
Is pediatric chiropractic the same as chiropractic for adults?
Pediatric care is much more gentle than Chiropractic care for adults. It does not take much to move a bone, and that is especially true in kiddos!
What are the signs my child should see a chiropractor?
In childhood, some common things kids struggle with include: trouble sleeping, ear infections, headaches, cholic, behavioral challenges, cognitive delays, and milestone misses – ALL of which can be helped with Chiropractic care.
What are the benefits of chiropractic for kids?
Chiropractic care can be a gentle, non-invasive, and easy solution to many physical and emotional issues your children may face as they grow up.
Should a child see a chiropractor for ear infections before putting tubes in their ears?
Ear tubes are a permanent, aggressive approach to getting rid of ear infections, and while Chiropractic care isn’t a cure for ear infections, it is a natural way to address the alignment of the ear tubes so that the child can naturally fix the problem within their own bodies.
$49 New Patient Special
Includes Full Health History, Consultation, All Necessary X-rays, Complete Spinal Exam & Report of Findings. NON-PARTICIPATING with Medicare and Medicaid, x-ray fees will apply.