4. CHILDREN AND CHIROPRACTIC

If a child stirs in the night, coughs, or cries for a drink who is the first up to respond? Nine times out of ten it’s either mum or dad. If little Johnny falls off his tricycle at three and skins his knees who’s the first to take care of them? It’s usually mum or dad.

I’ve had parents in the clinic who will sacrifice anything for the sake of the children. I know my mother sacrificed most of her life because she felt it was right for the children.
What do we do with our kids? We try and bring them up as right as we possibly can; to teach them to be fair to others and demand they be fair to them, to teach them the values of right against wrong, to be honest, to love the country and all mankind as their friend. In short, we try to do the best for them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes parents sacrifice too much of themselves, the child then has no beacon to tie up against or to look up to.

But, it is instinct to protect and look after your children.   Right from when you start as a patient of mine in this clinic, I’ll been tell you how chiropractic enables people to get healthier again and in 99% of the time this is so, but just sometimes we get patients who have left it too late and even their own body hasn’t got the cooperative powers in the time left to get them naturally back on the road to health, where as, they can see the difference.

I mention this because so often we will get one person of a family unit along under chiropractic care, but they leave the rest of the family at home to stay sick or get sick. Even after all his trying, nothing makes a chiropractor as mad as when he/she is checking mother one day in the office (to make sure she has no subluxations choking off her life energy) and she tells him that she’s off next to take little Johnny to the medical doctor because he’s got the flu, or this problem or that. Most parents unfortunately don’t stop to think that maybe Johnny has little problems too, that perhaps are causing his body not to function properly and these symptoms that he has are just the body's way of telling someone somethings not right.

The problem lies with people not understanding how this body of ours works. If little Johnny falls off his tricycle at three and damages the nerve supply to his heart, he’s not going to have a heart attack at three, it may be at thirty-three or forty-three. After years of degeneration and dysfunction the body gets so low that symptoms finally appear, and he’s got a problem. What chiropractors are saying, is that it takes years before the first organic symptoms show up, but we have been functioning badly all that time, and even worse, maybe some organs or systems still need a further ten-twenty years before medical people can find out that there definitely is a problem.

We say, as chiropractors, get your children checked and keep them checked once a month at the very least. It’s twelve times a year, not much when you say it like that, but the chiropractor is trained to recognize the little problems that show up in children and if they are there, something positive has to be done about it.

The dress that hangs low on one side, or one shoulder riding high and many other signs, that are like little flashing lights to the chiropractor and children respond so well under care because they have all of youth on their side.

It makes me so sad to see little children getting doped up on prescription medications suppressing symptoms, covering up the real problem. Who knows what these drugs are doing to kids when their bodies are trying desperately to grow.

Give them a chance to work right - you’ll see the benefits of it. Children under seven years old most chiropractors don’t take x-rays of, unless they really have to, and I would say they really have to in about one in fifty.

Everyone can see that if the sapling is bent that is how the tree grows and stays; WHY can’t some people see that in their children.

I have the greatest time of all when children come into my office, they are the coming generation; I know I’m going to give them, and mine, the best start possible, by keeping their spine in line and allowing their bodies to work correctly.

Most people do everything for their children except the one thing that allows them to be really healthy and it's such an easy thing to do.

Parents, consider the family plan we have here in the clinic, it’s not that much more expensive than you’re paying now, but all the family can stay healthy under care.

Part of your initial visit expense is covered among other things, a free spinal check-up for any and all members of your immediate family.

Please take advantage of it for your children sake.