Chiropractic Care and Dyslexia

Chiropractic care may offer significant benefits to children that suffer with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Swiss researchers report.  The research was investigated by Yannick Pauli, a Swiss chiropractor who is also the president of the Swiss Chiropractic Pediatric Association.  Dr. Pauli assessed eight previously published studies involving a total of 160 children.  The evidence found strongly suggests that chiropractic care may improve various cognitive abilities that are essential to learning.  He also stated that dyslexia and other learning disorders are commonly recognized as neurodevelopmental disorders.  Children affected with these problems have areas in their brain that are not functioning adequately or are even delayed in their development.  Dr. Pauli also noted that the same areas of neurological dysfunction that are connected to learning disorders can also interfere with sport activities, life skills, and family and peer relationships.  His findings are published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research.  

Chiropractic and Whiplash Injuries

A common injury that patients present with in our office is a whiplash injury from a motor vehicle collision.  Here are some common facts regarding whiplash injuries.

Ninety percent of all motor vehicle collisions that cause whiplash injuries occur at speeds less than 14 mph.  Collision speeds of 5 mph have been shown to cause neck pain in rear-end crash tests.  Therefore, disability from a whiplash injury is associated less with tire skid marks or the degree of vehicle damage and more with the velocity of the whiplash injury on the head and upper body.  These rear-end collisions are associated with more severe symptoms than collisions from any other direction.  Interesting enough, patients who sustain a low-velocity whiplash injury often will have more pain and psychological distress than those who sustain a fracture.  Because women have thinner and less ridged necks, they have twice the whiplash injury rate as men.

The most common whiplash injury symptoms are:
1. neck pain
2. neck stiffness
3. headaches
4. pain and tingling into the upper limbs
5. mid back and low back pain

Whiplash-injured patients are five times more likely to suffer from chronic neck pain than the general population.  Seventeen percent of whiplash-injured patients who become asymptomatic will have a relapse of symptoms within 3 months.

If you suffer with pain caused by a whiplash injury, there is hope.  According to Martin Gargan and Gordon Bannister, the world's leading experts on long-term recovery outcomes of whiplash injuries, chiropractic is the only proven effective treatment in chronic whiplash cases.  They also found that benefits can occur in 90% of patients receiving chiropractic care for chronic whiplash injuries.  Using the specific Gonstead technique, our approach can lead to long-lasting and often permanent results alleviating symptoms related to whiplash injuries.

Infantile Colic and Chirpractic Care

If your baby cries about the same time each day and nothing you do seems to offer comfort, your baby may have colic. Colic is often defined as crying more than three hours a day, three days a week for more than three weeks in an otherwise well-fed, healthy baby. What is most important for the diagnosis is sustained crying in an otherwise healthy baby for a regular period of the day lasting for several weeks.

Can a child with infantile colic find relief through chiropractic?  

A study was published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) that studied 316 infants suffering from infantile colic that had received chiropractic care for their condition.  The study involded 73 chiropractors in 50 different clinics.  The average age of the infant under care was 5.7 weeks.  The results of the study revealed that 94% of the infants received satisfactory results.  The results occurred within 2 wk and after an average of three treatments.

Children are always better off with a bone in place than out.