Should Your Child Receive Regular Chiropractic Care, Too? Why Bring Your Children to the Chiropractor?
Chiropractic adjustments can provide a natural and effective approach to raising the quality of life for infants, children, and teenagers.
Proactive vs. Reactive Health
A great way to understand why children commonly benefit from regular chiropractic care is by looking at the difference between a proactive and reactive health approach. In order to understand the reactive health routine, let’s look at symptoms.
It’s a popular belief that when your body has no signs of pain or symptoms, all is well within. The problem with judging how the body is functioning based on feeling is that feeling can be a poor yardstick to measure well-being. How well the body functions is based on more than the absence of disease or symptoms.
Even the World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
The Impact of Stress on Children
The issue with constantly taking a reactive approach to your child’s well-being is that, on a daily basis, your child is confronted with stress that can outweigh their ability to adapt to it, and dysfunction can result in their physiology, regardless of any signs or symptoms.
Did you know that stress confronts children of all ages, regardless of pain or symptoms? Yes, even infants and babies encounter stress. Every single person on this planet encounters stress in their lives on a daily basis. We can’t entirely rid our lives from stress, but we can become more aware of the fact that stress is a part of living and find better ways to adapt to it, making us stronger and more resilient to the demands and obstacles we encounter daily.
Stress Starts Early
Infants start adapting or compensating to stress as soon as conception begins, and the embryo turns into a growing baby inside the mother. The choices the mother makes can either negatively or positively affect the growing infant. These choices can become the stressors that start the process of compensating or adapting to stress at an early age.
Once the baby is born into this world, stress doesn’t stop the process of trying to break down normal, healthy physiology. For example, have you ever heard a baby cry because they’re hungry? This is a process of communication, but the process itself can become a form of stress on the baby’s well-being. Think about it—have you ever been so hungry that your blood sugar levels drop drastically, and before long, your attitude and behavior turn you into a grumpy, short-tempered individual? Our internal body chemistry has a profound impact on physiology, and when babies get hungry, this can become an emotional and physiological stressor on their overall well-being.
The Importance of Chiropractic for Immune Health
Every fall and winter, the sun disappears, the weather gets cold, and kids head back to school to share high-fives and hugs that create a perfect storm for bacteria and viruses to spread. The fact that cold and flu season affects all of us is well-known, but the undisclosed reason why some of us escape being victims is adaptation. This can become the same source of your baby’s ability to stay healthy during cold and flu season, especially as their immune system develops. When adaptation to bacteria and viruses fails, and babies lose the battle to the foreign organisms, this process becomes a stressor on their body at levels that can be very harmful to their well-being.
The Resilience of Children
Children have an amazing ability to adapt to stress, but as they age and develop, demands and expectations increase. Positive proactive measures for their well-being to adapt to the increasing stressors are vital.
A proactive approach to our well-being routine is not waiting until compensation is noticed, but instead, making positive choices that will increase their quality of life and inner potential to adapt to the day-to-day demands.
Proactive Chiropractic Care for Children
If we change our approach from reactive to proactive in the realm of taking care of our well-being, regular chiropractic care for children is easier to comprehend.
So, why be proactive with our children’s well-being?
Children’s bodies have an amazing ability to adapt to stress, but as the demands and expectations in life increase, children need positive proactive measures for their well-being to adapt to the stressors, just like adults do. We can’t entirely rid our lives of stress, but we can utilize tools to make us stronger and more resilient to the demands and obstacles we encounter daily.
Regular chiropractic adjustments for children can be one proactive choice to raise the quality of life and well-being within their resilient bodies.
