ChiropracticChiropractic E Bringing Out The Best In You!PL M SA An Introduction

8TH EDITION TEDD KOREN, D.C. Discover what Why has chiropractic can become so popular? do for your family. This healing art, science and philosophy, discovered over a century ago, is now the most widely used natural health profession in the world.

hiropractic continues to It is the most popular drug-free, TTodayoday millions of people visit grow because it is effective, surgery-free healthcare system in their neighborhood doctor of Csafe and gentle and because the world, offering you and your chiropractic and millions more it respects your body’s natural family a real choice. would, if they only knew. This healing and recuperative powers. book is dedicated to them. hiropractic releases deep Eheadache, sciatica, emotional and Your Vital Connection ...... 2 stress within your body/mind neurological conditions and many, What Is A Subluxation? ...... 4 Cso you’ll function better, many others. permitting your natural healing Is My Structural System Healthy? ..... 6 PPeopleeople also visit their chiropractors ability, your innerL healer, to for more energy, improved sports What Caused My Subluxations? ...... 8 function better. Spinal Degeneration ...... 9 performance, better balance, Your Inner Healer ...... 10 That’s why nearly every condition clearer thinking, better resistance to which the fl esh is heir has to disease and to help ensure The Connections Of Health ...... 12 Presponded to chiropractic including drug-free lives for themselves and Infants & Children ...... 14 ear infections, asthma, allergies, their families. WeWe welcome you to Pregnancy ...... 16 colic, bed-wetting, hearing our chiropractic family; you will Women’s Wellness ...... 17 problems, skin conditions, digestive discover for yourself why so many Sports & Athletics ...... 18 and menstrual problems, infertility, people say,say, “Chiropractic brings Accidents & Trauma ...... 19 spine and nerve pain, colds and fl u, out the best in me.” Neck Problems & Whiplash ...... 20 Headache & Migraine ...... M21 Low Back Problems ...... 22 Disc Problems & Back Surgery ...... 23 Sciatica & Leg Pain ...... 24 Shoulder, Arm & Hand Problems ...... 25 WelcomeWelcome to the TMJ & CarpalA Tunnel ...... 26 Fibromyalgia ...... 27 Parkinson’s Disease/ Multiple Sclerosis ...... 28 exciting world SFeel Young/Stay Healthy ...... 29 The Winsor Autopsies ...... 30 Masha & Dasha ...... 31 Frequently Asked Questions ...... 32 of chiropractic! When Will I Get Better? ...... 34 Why Should I Return If I’m Feeling Fine? ...... 35 Journey to Optimum Health ...... 36 My Structural System ...... 37 Copyright © 2011 by Tedd Koren, D.C. All rights reserved. 1 m Sympathetic chain - ToTo eyes, ears and other sense organs; glands and blood vessels of the brain; immune response; bone growth; fat metabolism; reaction to stress; brain m C1 - Blood supply to the head, pituitary function gland, scalp, bones of the face, brain, inner and middle earear,, sympathetic nervous system, eyes m C4 - Nose, lips, mouth, eustachian tube, m C2 - Eyes, optic nerves, auditory nerves, mucous membranes, lungs sinuses, mastoid bones, tongue, forehead, m C5 - VocalVocal cords, neck glands, pharynx heart m C6 - Neck muscles, shoulders, tonsils Your Vital Connection m C3 - Cheeks, outer ear,ear, face, bones, teeth, m C7 - Thyroid gland, bursa in the shoulders, trifacial nerve, lungs Your nervous system is the center of your thoughts, elbows memory, learning and consciousness. Your muscles, m T1 - Arms from the elbows down, including m Brachial plexus - Forms the radial, ulnar,ulnar, blood vessels and glands as well as your internal hands, arms, wrists and fi ngers; esophagus median and other nerves that go to the and trachea; heart muscles, joints and other structures of organs and systems need a healthy nervous system m T2 - Heart, including its valves and the shoulder,shoulder, arm, wrist, hand and fi ngers to function properly. covering; coronary arteries; lungs; bronchial tubes m T3 - Lungs, bronchial tubes, pleura, chest, breast, heart our spine consists of 24 vertebrae Your fi ve lumbar (lower back) YourYour spinal column has m T4 - Gallbladder,Gallbladder, common duct, plus your sacrum and coccyx. vertebrae are the biggest, thickest heart, lungs, bronchial tubes four functions: m T5 - Liver,Liver, solar plexus, The fi rst of your seven cervical and most massive vertebrae. These Y m T7 - Pancreas, duodenum, circulation (general), heart, support the weight of your entire • To house and protect your (neck) vertebrae (C1), called the stomach, liver, spleen, esophagus, stomach spine, which is why so many spinal gallbladder, peritoneum “atlas,” is directly under your skull. spinal cord and spinal nerves m T6 - Stomach, esophagus, problems are in the lower back m T8 - Spleen, stomach, liver, Your second (C2), the “axis,” permits • To support your hips and peritoneum, duodenum (lumbar) area. shoulders pancreas, gallbladder, adrenal E head turning and tilting. cortex, small intestine, pyloric Your sacrum is made up of fi ve fused • To serve as an attachment Cervical vertebrae C3 through valve vertebrae. The sacrum and the hips to your muscles m T9 - Adrenal cortex, pancreas, m T10 - Kidneys,Kidneys, appendix, C7 continue through the neck. spleen, gallbladder, ovaries, on either side make up your pelvis. • To support your head and testes, ovaries, uterus, adrenal uterus, small intestine L Your 12 thoracic (mid-back) vertebrae Your coccyx, four fused vertebrae, ribs cortex, spleen, pancreas, large (T1 through T12) all connect to the is what’s left of your tailbone. intestine ribs in the back, and all but two m T11 - Kidneys,Kidneys, ureters, large intestine, urinary bladder,bladder, (T11 and T12, which “fl oat”) join C1 m L1 - Large intestine, inguinal adrenal medulla, adrenal the sternum (breastbone) in front. C2 7 rings, uterusP C3 Cervical cortex, uterus, ovaries, m L2 - Appendix, abdomen, upper C4 Spine ileocecal valve leg, urinary bladder C5 Vertebrae m T12 - Small intestine, lymph (Neck) C6 m L3 - Sex organs, uterus, bladder, circulation, large intestine, C7 knees, prostate, large intestine urinary bladder,bladder, uterus, T1 m L4 - ProstateProstate gland, muscles of the kidneys, ileocecal valve T2 lower back, sciatic nerve All your internal T3 T4 Mm L5 - Lower legs, ankles, feet, prostate organs are connected T5 12 T6 Thoracic m Sacral plexus - Forms the to your brain via the T7 Spine sciatic as well as other Vertebrae m Sacrum - Hip bones, buttocks, rectum, nerves that go to muscles, T8 (Mid-back) sex organs, genitalia, urinary bladder, nerves that emit from joints and other structures T9 ureters, prostate of the leg, knee, ankle, feet your spine. AT10 m Coccyx - Rectum, anus and toes T11 T12

L1 5 SL2 Lumbar notes Spine Vertebrae L3 (Lower Back) L4 L5 Sacrum & Coccyx (Tailbone)

2 3 What Is A Subluxation? The fi ve components of the tissue damage muscle damage overall health Complex. 3 (histopathology) 4 (myopathology) 5 degeneration (pathophysiology) joint damage nerve damage 1(kinesiopathology) 2 (neuropathology) tight muscles

misaligned vertebraevertebrae muscle spasms

spinal deformation trigger points locked joints swelling E bone deformation “pinched”, stressed & compressed nerves redness L irritated disc deformation nerves P heat pain m Abnormal pressure on joints The following articles provided invaluable and nearby soft tissues background for the information contained on stress on discs these pages: m Swelling 1. Flesia J. A psychoepistemological basis for the unbalanced m Soft tissue damage m Muscles chronically tense, m Dis-ease (overall body sacrum new Renaissance intellectual. Renaissance Int’l. Newsletter. 1982. m Tender and painful areas, muscle spasms malfunction) 2. Dishman RW. Review of the literatureM especially to touch supporting a scientifi c basis for the chiropractic m Weakened muscles, cartilage, m Accelerated aging subluxation complex. JMPT. 1985;8:163-174. m Unnatural wear and tear causes ligaments and tendons m Chronic fatigue 3. Lantz C. The vertebral subluxation complex. m Vertebrae out of proper alignment m Nerves compressed, stretched ICA Review. Sept/Oct 1989;37-61. arthritic changes to the joints m Pain m Lessened ability to respond to m 4. Lantz C. The vertebral subluxation complex, and nearby tissues m Postural distortions physical and emotional stress Increased stress on joints, discs or “pinched” part 2: the neurological and myopathological and ligaments m Abnormal nerve function components. CRJ. 1990;1(4):19-38. m Lowered resistance to disease A5. Flesia J. The component basis of the vertebral m Joint degeneration, bone m “Locked” (jammed) or “clicking” m Altered internal organ function subluxation complex. ICA Review. Spring 1991; joints m Pain 22-23. deformation, disc destruction 6. Wallace H, Wallace J, Resh R. Advances m m Pain m Attention defi cit disorders, in paraspinal thermographic analysis. CRJ. Loss of height m Reduced range of motion addictive behavior, psychosis 1993;2(3):39-64. m Inability to “hold” spinal S 7. Flesia J. The component basis of the vertebral m Shoulders, hips, knees and feet and other conditions subluxation complex, part 8: literature review adjustments for long periods compensate for postural imbalance with Jan Jirout, M.C., D.Sc., part 4. Clinical Chiropractic. April 1993. m Loss of energy, fatigue 8. Budgell BS. Refl ex effects of subluxation: the autonomic nervous system. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2000;23(2):104-106. 9. Colloca C, Keller T, Gunzburg R, Vandeputte K, Fuhr A. Neurophysiologic response to intraoperative lumbosacral . J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2000;23(7):447–457. 10. Abstracts of invited papers presented at the 2010 SORSI mid-year Research and Education Symposium. April 23-25, 2010. Chicago, Illinois. 4 JVSR. 2010;56-84. 5 notes Is My Structural System Healthy? Easy ways to fi nd out:

m Do you have poor posture? E Stand on two bathroom scales. The weight distribution should m Does your foot fl are out be about the same over each m Do your heels wear out m Are you unable to take a m Do you have to “crack” when you’re walking? foot. If it is not, that’s a sign unevenly? satisfying deep breath? your neck, back or other Foot fl are may be a Lsign of a that your spine, hips or head May be due to uneven leg Breath, health, structural joints a lot? problem in the lower spine, are off-center causing abnor- length or stress on your health and energy are hips, upper neck or base of mal wear and tear as well as May be caused by areas of premature aging. structural system. interrelated. your structural system that the brain. are locked or jammed. P

Did You Know? Astronauts grow as much as an inch and three-quarters during M space life. Without the stress of gravity, the discs expand even SA more than usual. m Are you unable to rotate m Are you often fatigued? m Do you have low m Do you have headaches, m Do you just not feel or turn your head, neck, An unbalanced body drains resistance to disease? backaches, sore or right? hips, legs, shoulders and your energy. Subluxations affect your tender spots in muscles, Subluxations can affect your arms in all directions neuroendocrine system which along bones, in soft overall health. easily and equally? plays an important role in the tissue or joints? health of your immune system, These are common signs of Reduced range of motion your resistance to disease and subluxations. indicates joint misalignment. your ability to fi ght infection. 6 7 What Caused Spinal

My Subluxations? Degeneration (subluxation degeneration) Sub luxations are caused by any stress that Long-standing vertebral subluxations cause spinal damage. overwhelms your body. the healthy spine degeneration degeneration degeneration degeneration phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 phase 4

Stresses That Can Subluxate Your Body

m A diffi cult birth or delivery m An auto accident m A fall no matter how long ago (even as a toddler) m gentle curves m loss of normal Em increasing spinal m greater posture m degeneration of m Bad posture m disc spaces spinal curve decay, disc imbalance the cartilage and m Eating junk food (chemical are even m disc, joint, narrowing m increased nerve bone stress) m bones are smooth muscle and nerve and bone damage m bone fusion, m Using the same body position L m full range of weakening deformation m scar tissue constant pain over and over at work or play motion without m poor posture m spinal canal m advanced bone and discomfort (repetitive strain injury) pain m loss of energy narrowing deformation m inability to turn, m Emotional tension m can cope with m diminished (stenosis) may m beginnings of bend and twist m Pushing yourself too hard P 1 occur physical and height physical and/or m physical and m Being a couch potato mental stress m aches and pains mental weakness mental weakness m Dental work more common or disability more pronounced m Drug use, medications m fatigue m further loss of m increased loss of m Surgery m reduced ability to energy and height height m Working in an awkward position Did You Know? cope with stress also occur3 spinal cord m A mild jar when you’re m height decrease spinal nerve unprepared MIn the United States, continues2 m An emotional shock when your signifi cant amounts of spinal degeneration can be disc energy is low m Long car rides detected in over one third Reversing Spinal Degeneration of the population by age 30. m Other: hiropractic care may reduce, halt and possibly reverse spinal spinal nerve By age 70, it is present in A degeneration by improving spinal balance and posture and keeping spinal cord nearly everyone and often disc your joints, nerves and discs healthy and strong.4-5 Of course, the best in advanced stages; it has C approach to spinal degeneration is to prevent it in the fi rst place! That’s been blamed for the 180,000 why chiropractic checkups for all children and adults should be a part of spinal nerve cases of bed- or chair-ridden spinal nerve S everyone’s healthcare regime. seniors. The chiropractic profession owes a debt of gratitude to Joseph Flesia, D.C. for his research and vertebra writings on the vertebral subluxation complex paradigm. spinal nerve 1. Gottlieb M. Neglected spinal cord, brain stem 4. Brantingham J, Snyder WR, Biedebach D. Spinal and musculoskeletal injuries stemming from birth manipulation may help reduce spinal degenerative disc trauma. JMPT. 1993;16(8):537-543. joint disease and disability. . 2. Gunn CC. ‘Prespondylosis’ and some pain April 22, 1994. syndromes following denervation supersensitivity. 5. Ressel OJ. Disc regeneration : reversibility is Spine. 1980;5(2). possible in spinal osteoarthritis . ICA Review, March/ vertebra 3. Sato A. The refl ex effects of spinal somatic April 1989;39-61. nerve stimulation on visceral function. JMPT. 1992;15(1):57-61. 8 9 Your Inner Healer I desired to know why one person was ailing and his being smoothed; germs and tumors this vast communications associate, eating at the same table, working in the are being destroyed; and all the system to organize your same shop ... was not. Why? What difference was there things that your cells produce are billions of parts into a in the two persons that caused one to have [disease] being monitored and balanced while healthy, adapting, living you read a book, sleep or run a race. being.5 True health or while his partner ... escaped? Why? 1 What keeps track of all this adaptation can only — D.D. Palmer, Founder of Chiropractic emerge when your innate activity? intelligence can communicate A wondrous intelligence. As Lewis without interference or Thomas, M.D. writes in The Medusa “static.” A complete break in re you healthy if you feel mortgage—and you must adapt to your body is struggling to regain and the Snail, “[There is] a kind that communication results in good? If you said, “Yes,” ask them all. For if you did not ... health and balance. Nobel Prize of super intelligence that exists in death; a partial break results in a yourself if you ever felt good winner Rene Dubos said it well: A ... a hot summer day would boil each of us, infi nitely smarter and general deterioration of health—or one day and then came down “Good health is a process of your brain; a winter night would possessed of technical knowledge far “dis-ease”—you are less alive and with a cold, the fl u or some other continuous adaptation to the Chiropractic freeze you solid; every inhalation beyond our present understanding.’’E3 less able to cope with life’s stresses. condition the next. You probably myriad microbes, irritants, would bring massive infection; This idea is echoed by Deepak Eventually a dis-eased state turns into care corrects felt fi ne the day before you tumors would overwhelm you; pressures and problems which 6 2 Chopra, M.D., in Ageless Body, disease conditions. got sick, but were you healthy? a small cut would drain all your daily challenge man.’’ subluxations and Timeless Mind: “Intelligence is This understanding is ancient—it has Most likely your resistance was blood. Without adaptation, your L present everywhere in our bodies been the heart and soul of Empirical permits you to low—perhaps your stress levels heart would continue pounding ... our own inner intelligence is or Vitalistic healthcare for thousands were too high or you were pushing after a workout; alcohol and other function in closer far superior to any we can try to of years and is the basic philosophical yourself too much. drugs would never break down, 4 substitute from the outside.” premise of natural healing systems harmony to your What about people who “feel and you’d stay intoxicated for life; P Chiropractic refers to your body’s including chiropractic, homeopathy, good” one moment and have a an adrenaline high or a moment’s natural state of organizational ability as its innate classical osteopathy, traditional heart attack or stroke the next? Or anxiety would last a lifetime. (inborn) intelligence. Your innate Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic perfection. those who “feel good” walking into Thankfully, you usually adapt intelligence organizes your body (Indian) medicine.7 a doctor’s offi ce and are diagnosed to life’s stresses because many into a complicated, living, adapting, with cancer or some other serious Subluxations, a common, often mechanisms are built into you for growing being—without it, you would health condition? painless condition, stress your this purpose. They’re as simple M be no more than a few dollars worth structural system and nervous system It’s obvious that health is much as shivering when cold and as of chemicals. and interfere with the proper fl ow of more than how you feel; it’s elaborate as your immune system information and energy through much deeper than that. So what Where Does Your Inner engulfi ng bacteria. They are as your body, causing a state of is health? Health is your ability Wisdom Come From? dramatic as an adrenaline rush dis-ease. to handle physical, chemical and when confronting danger, or as There is a part of your body that emotional stress without losing ungraceful as gagging. They all A is especially intimate with your Doctors of chiropractic spend Your Innate Intelligence your physical, chemical and say the same thing: Survive! inner wisdom: your nervous system, years of training learning how emotional balance. Survive changes in the weather; What does adaptation look like composed of your brain, spinal cord to locate and correct your subluxations, freeing your body Adaptation survive bacterial invasion; survive inside you? It’s thousands of and the billions of nerves that emerge pollution; survive emotionalS different chemicals being balanced from them. Your nervous system from dis-ease and helping you So many forms of stress threaten heartbreak; survive excitement; every second, millions of cells touches every nook and cranny of better reconnect to your inner your balance: heat, cold, wind survive work; survive in the big dying every second, millions being your body, and your body wisdom uses healer. and rain; bacteria, viri, pollen, city—and thrive! born every second and billions of mold and fungi in the air; cancer nerves fi ring messages to every 1. Palmer DD. The science, art and philosophy of 5. Ornstein R, Sobel D. The brain as a health Viewed from this perspective, cells, with their deranged genetic part of your body every second. chiropractic. Portland, OR: Portland Printing House. maintenance organization In R. Ornstein & S. symptoms such as fevers, chills, 1910. Swencionis (Eds.), The healing brain, a scientifi c instructions that constantly arise Your lunch is somehow turned into reader. New York: Guilford Press. 1990;11. vomiting, fatigue, sneezing and 2. Dubos R, Pines M. Health and disease. New York: within; pollution and chemicals; eye, muscle, heart, bone, skin and Time-Life Books. 1968. 6. Selye H. The stress of life (Rev. ed.). pain—although unpleasant—aren’t New York: McGraw Hill. 1976. cuts, bumps and bruises; school, blood; damaged tissues are being 3. Thomas L. The medusa and the snail. New York: bad; rather, they are signs that Bantam Books. 1983;96. 7. Coulter HL. Divided Legacy (Vol. 4). work, marriage, babies, bills, a repaired; blood vessel linings are 4. Chopra D. Ageless body, timeless mind. New York: Washington DC: The Center for Empirical Crown Publishing. 1993. Medicine. 1990. 10 11 The Connections of Health What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are born to express The Connections The Connections The Connections ChiropracticChiropractic & Disconnection radiant physical, mental of Physical Health of Emotional Health of Spiritual Health Chiropractic has discovered a People like and spiritual health, joy, When a living system is suffering Dwell as near as possible to the If the body is sick, the mind worries powerful “disconnection” in your vitality, harmony, peace, from ill health, the remedy is to channel in which your life fl ows. and the spirit grieves; if the mind is body called the subluxation. This is chiropractic optimism, strength, love connect it with more of itself. — Henry David Thoreau sick, the body and spirit will sufferE a physical condition that interferes with the fl ow of energy and because it and healing at any age. — Francisco Varella Emotional health is also depen- from its confu sion; if the spirit is information from your source and When you are physically healthy dent on being connected—to sick, there will be no will to care approaches health ut it rarely seems that can affect physical, emotional and all your body parts are in their yourself and others. The more for the body or mind. in a natural, safe, way. Disharmony, illness, — J.R. Worsley L spiritual health. The result is dis- proper places, fi tting precisely, connected you are to yourself disease, depression, ease, an internal communications drug-free manner. B so they can communicate with the more you can connect with The more spiritually connected you fatigue, emotional and spiritual disease, where you are less than one another and are not interfer- others and the more fulfi lling disconnection and isolation touch are, the closer you are to the love, whole. Chiropractors are specially ing with the function of other your emotional connections (rela- so many lives. Too many of us energy,energy, joyjoy,, vitality and wisdom of trained to locate and correct or body parts or the fl ow of energy tionships). The more relationships P walk this earth with our bodies, your source. When you are spiritually remove subluxations. that bubbles up from your source in your life the more happiness, healthy you are connected to the hearts and souls in pain. ReconnectingReconnecting to your inner healer is to direct your body. Your body is joy, hope, optimism and vital- depths within you and the universe All true healers’ ultimate goal chiropractic’schiropractic’s goal. Chiropractic care in a state of exquisite coordina- ity you will have; the healthier without. is to help you better connect to tion and balance. and longer you will live and the permits your body/mind to gently your source, your inner healing A spiritually connected person is in release old stress so your powerful A physically disconnected per- quicker you will recover from ability, wherein all health and harmony with their life’life’ss purpose and natural healing ability may fl ow son’s parts are not fi tting exactly physical and emotional traumas healing arise. and illness. M meaning. They are following their from your right. The result is lack of bal- heart, trusting their instincts and are source and ance, interruption of the energies An emotionally disconnected per- sensitive to the laws and powers that begin a that fl ow through you under the son holds pockets of unresolved create and recreate reality at every process of directives of your innate intel- anger, fear, resentment, pain or moment. reconnection. ligence and a weakened connec- other emotions locked up within tion to your source. This results theirA body and mind. Past trau- The spiritually disconnected person in dis-ease—a lack of wholeness, mas and fears cause chronic phys- has a sense of isolation, loneliness, coordination and harmony. When ical tension and emotional stress confusion and fear.fear. One’sOne’s will to live you are dis-eased stress can over- that disconnect you from your is weakened and life lacks vision and whelm you and disease,S illness, deeper self, leading to dis-ease. meaning. One’sOne’s purpose in life is exhaustion, accelerated aging In this state intuition is clouded, clouded. and shortened life results. life’s purpose is confused and there are diffi culties forming healthy relationships.

12 13 Keeping your child’s body free from subluxations will help your child’s natural defenses against Infants & Children disease. If your child has any of these conditions Chiropractic care is essential for infants, babies & children. make sure he or she has Think of chiropractic care as you would good nutritional a chiropractic checkup: care—always essential for your child’s good health. m Fever m Colic m hiropractic care for my newborn’s spine that could lead to Croup child? Why? His back many health problems.2 m Learning disorders m Poor posture doesn’t hurt.” Parents For over a century doctors of “C m Nervousness who often appreciate the chiropractic have reported dramatic yeast proliferation. Tubes in the ears disappear after chiropractic care, importance of checkups for their responses of infants and children to m Constipation are mostly antibiotic/medical failures saving children from ear-tube surgery child’s teeth, hearing, vision, nose chiropractic care, often after drugs m Bed-wetting with infections returning within two and antibiotics. and throat draw a blank when it and surgery had no effect. m Weakness or fatigue months and the tubes can cause comes to the spine and structural A common example is that of two and m Allergies Today we fi nd more parents hearing loss years later. system. Efour-year-old sisters with chronic ear m Sinus trouble bringing their children to doctors Children with ear infections need infections who had received numerous A chiropractic checkup could be of chiropractic for regular m Stomachache chiropractic adjustments. In many courses of antibiotics over at least one of the most important of your checkups. Without chiropractic m Loss of hearing alternative. All children with cases ear infections are observed to two years with no improvement. After child’s life! Why? The jumping, care some children will live in m Ear infections learning disabilities and similar L adjustments the mother reported falling, running and bumping of continued sickness, condemned to m Arthritis problems need a chiropractic that both children were “doing much a normal childhood often cause a life of medications and perhaps m Numbness subluxations, with serious health checkup. better” and the children had no more even surgery. With a healthy 8 m Irritability consequences if uncorrected.1 ear infections. structural system, a child can Ear Infections m Headaches In addition, the birth process P Other case studies include: a baby better deal with the sore throats, By the age of three, over two- m Neck aches puts tremendous stress on the boy 6-months-old who was scheduled ear infections, stomachaches, thirds of all children have had for ear tubes. His ear infection m Backaches fevers, measles, mumps and the one or more ear infections. There completely cleared after one m Sore throat hundred-and-one other problems are numerous problems with adjustment and tubes were never m Eye problems that often make up young life. antibiotic usage for children with inserted. Also, two girls aged three m Cough ear infections such as allergic Emotionally Healthy and four with chronic ear infections m Skin disorders reactions, GI upset, antibioticM Children and upper respiratory dysfunction m resistance and destruction of the Asthma received adjustments and no more Clinicians and parents have gut’s intestinal fl ora leading to m Wheezing observed often dramatic ear infections occurred since their m Scoliosis or curvature 9 improvements in the physical, fi rst visit. Other studies fi nd similar m Neurological conditions 10-11 neurological and emotional health success with chiropractic care. m Bronchitis of children following chiropractic A m Frequent colds care. This includes children with m Muscular Dystrophy learning disabilities, anxiety,anxiety, 1. Wrightson P, McGinn V, Gronwell D. Mild head injury in time: a pilot study. JMPT. 2000;23(7):465-469. preschool children: evidence that can be associated with a m Cerebral Palsy concentration and attention 7. Lewit K. Functional disorders (fi xations) of the spine in persisting cognitive defect. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. children. Manuelle Therapie. Leipzig: Barth. 1973;50-54. m Poor concentration problems, hyperactivity,hyperactivityS, attention 1995;59:375-380. 8. Hochman J. The management of acute otitis media using 2. Gutman G. Blocked atlantal nerve syndrome in babies m defi cit disorder (ADD), dyslexia, SOT and SOT craniopathy. Today’s Chiropractic. May/June Arm and hand pain and infants. Manuelle Medizin. 1987;25:5-10. 2001;41-42. m Painful joints discipline problems, low IQ and 3. Giesen JM, Center DB, Leach RA. An evaluation of 9. Hochman J. The management of acute otitis media using 3-7 chiropractic manipulation as a treatment of hyperactivity SOT and SOT cranial. Sorsi Communicator. 2001;14(2). m Hip, leg and foot pain low grades. in children. JMPT. 1989;12:353-363. 10. Stone-McCoy P, Boutilier A, Black P. Resolution of otitis m Shoulder pain For many of the millions of 4. Walton EV. Chiropractic effectiveness with emotional, media in a nine-month-old undergoing chiropractic care: a learning and behavioral impairments. ICA Review. case study and selective review of the literature. Journal m Clumsiness school children in the United 1975;29:2-5,21-22. of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. States alone who suffer from a 5. Phillips CJ. Case study: the effect of utilizing spinal 2010;3:99-106. m A foot turned in or out learning impairment, chiropractic manipulation and craniosacral therapy as the treatment 11. Brown CD. Improved hearing and resolution of otitis m One leg shorter approach for attention defi cit hyperactivity disorder. media with effusion following chiropractic care to reduce holds promise as a non-drug Proceedings of the National Conference on Chiropractic vertebral subluxation.Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & m Unusual behavior and Pediatrics. 1991;57-74. Family Health – Chiropractic. 2009;1:1-7. 6. Gibbons PF, Gosling CM, Holmes M. The short-term 14 effects of cervical manipulation on edge light pupil cycle 15 Pregnancy Women’s Wellness Questions About TheThe relationshiprelationship bebetweentween the ststructuralructural ssystem,ystem, rreproductiveeproductive regnant women