Have you ever wondered if there was something more that you could do to maintain your child's health?
Osteopathy is a easy coming to healthcare that represents a missing piece in the curative puzzle. It was founded over a hundred years ago by an American physician named Andrew Taylor Still, who realised that many of his patients' problems were due to easy mechanical issues that affected their bodies' quality to achieve the vital functions that are important to our health.
Gentle osteopathic approaches like cranial osteopathy and fascial unwinding rely on the fact that the body instinctively knows what it needs to do to heal itself. By supporting this process, osteopaths can help the body to resolve anyone mechanical problems it may have and it is often possible to avoid the need for medication and other curative interventions. This gentle coming is perfectly distinguished to babies and children and their delicate growing bodies.
Post-natal check-ups for newborn babies
Most paediatric osteopaths believe that every child should receive a post-natal check-up. This is because birth is one of the most tasteless causes of mechanical dysfunction in the body. The strains that often corollary from the birth process can lead to colic, reflux and strangeness feeding and may also be a cause of other condition problems later on.
Most babies are able to resolve the stresses and strains of birth without too much strangeness but in some cases they need a little extra help. This is especially likely if there has been a long or difficult labour inspiring curative intervention but sometimes it is just that the baby didn't get its head in quite the right position to navigate the birth canal.
Case study
Poppy was three weeks old when her parents brought her to see me because she was highly unsettled and struggling to feed. Her birth had seemed relatively easy but it was definite on examining her that she had not been able to bend her head send sufficient when it had engaged in her mother's pelvis. As a corollary she had sustained a neck strain during the labour that was manufacture her highly uncomfortable, especially when she tried to feed.
Imagine trying to get your mouth to your mother's breast when you have a 'crick-neck' and don't yet have the strength to hold your head up on your own and you will begin to get some idea of why she was so upset. Fortunately, this was a relatively easy matter to sort out and with just one medicine she began to relax. After two treatments she was feeding well and happily gaining weight.
Support for the growing child
As children grow and develop, teething and growth spurts can exacerbate unresolved strains from birth or early injuries leading to anyone from a little irritability to the improvement of new and more serious problems. Persistent teething irritability or growing pains can be early signs that their bodies need help in overcoming these issues. Similarly, areas of apparent frailness in a child's immune principles often reflect some compromise to the mechanics that underlie the condition of the single principles involved.
Conditions like asthma and recurrent chest infections, eczema, persistent coughs and colds and glue ear can often be resolved if the underlying mechanical problems are addressed. Many developmental problems are also due to easy mechanical issues that are compromising some basic function. It may be that a stiff hip is affecting a child's quality to crawl or walk or an unresolved birth strain is compromising the drainage from their ears resulting in poor hearing and slow improvement of speech. In such cases, if the former strain is addressed, the body can return to normal function and the child can to begin to catch up.
Osteopathy is not the riposte to all of our condition problems but, because it helps to restore the body's innate quality to heal itself, there is something that it can do to help in most situations. It is one of the safest and most natural ways to maintain your condition and it works well alongside any other form of curative therapy. Osteopathy is the missing piece in the puzzle that could make all the disagreement to your family's health.
The names in the case histories above have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned.
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