Pediatric Chiropractic Care in Mount Pleasant
Gentle, specific care for newborns through teens, from doctors who are raising eight kids between them. If you’re wondering whether this is safe for your child, you’re asking the right question. Read on.
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“Is This Safe for My Baby?”
It’s the first thing almost every parent asks, and we’d be worried if you didn’t.
Here’s the honest answer: adjusting a child looks nothing like adjusting an adult. There’s no twisting, no cracking, and no force. For an infant, we use about the same pressure you’d use to check a tomato for ripeness. Most of the time it’s a fingertip’s worth of contact held for a few seconds.
A lot of babies sleep through it. Some of them nurse right through it. The parents who came in bracing themselves usually end up saying “wait, that’s it?”
And if you want to watch every second with your hand on your child, please do. We’d rather you see exactly what we’re doing than wonder about it.
How We Adjust Kids
For our littlest patients we often use instrument adjusting rather than our hands. The instrument delivers a small, precise impulse to one spot, and it’s consistent every single time, which is exactly what you want when you’re working with a body that weighs twelve pounds.
Dr. Alex excels in instrumentation adjusting and handles much of the day-to-day care in our office, so she’s often the one your child will see. Dr. Alyssa is an ICPA member with a passion for perinatal and pediatric care, and Dr. Nico is certified with Advanced Proficiency in Torque Release Technique, one of roughly 500 doctors in the world at that level.
As kids grow, the care grows with them. A teenage athlete gets treated differently than a six-week-old, and both get treated differently than you would.
We Look at the Nervous System First
Infinite Chiropractic is a neurologically based practice. That’s not a marketing phrase. It changes what we look for and what we do about it.
Your child’s nervous system runs everything. Breathing, digestion, sleep, immune response, and how their body handles stress are all coordinated through the brain and spinal cord. When the spine isn’t moving the way it should, that communication can be interfered with, and the body has a harder time doing its job.
So rather than chasing a symptom, we look for where that interference is happening and work to remove it. The goal is a nervous system that’s able to function the way it was designed to, so the body can do what it already knows how to do.
That’s why parents often notice changes in things that seem unrelated to the spine. When the system that coordinates the whole body works better, the effects tend to show up in more than one place.
What Brings Families In
Parents come to us with all of the following. In every case we’re looking at the same thing: whether the nervous system is able to do its job.
Colic and unsettled babies
The babies who seem tense, arch away, and are hard to settle, when you can tell something just isn’t comfortable.
Nursing and latch struggles
When a baby consistently prefers one side or has trouble turning their head comfortably in one direction.
Ear infections
One of the most common reasons parents in Mount Pleasant bring their little ones to see us.
Asthma and allergies
Families dealing with ongoing respiratory and immune challenges who want to look at what’s driving them.
Digestive issues
Constipation, reflux, IBS, and the gut complaints that never seem to fully resolve.
Bedwetting
A frustrating one for kids and parents alike, and another we see regularly.
Sleep and focus
Kids who struggle to settle at night, or to regulate through a long school day.
After a tough delivery
Long labors, fast labors, and interventions ask a lot of a brand new body.
Posture, milestones, and sport
Backpacks, screens, tumbles, and the wear of year-round travel ball, dance, and gymnastics.
Chiropractic care works alongside your child’s medical care rather than replacing it, and we’ll always tell you when something belongs in your pediatrician’s office instead of ours.
Parents Ask Us
How young is too young?
We see babies in their first weeks of life. The technique simply scales to the child in front of us, and a newborn adjustment is about as gentle as physical contact gets.
Will it hurt my child?
No. There’s no cracking and no twisting with kids, and the pressure we use is a fraction of what you’d expect. If your child fusses, it’s about being somewhere new rather than anything we’re doing, and we’ll stop any time you want us to.
Can I stay with my child?
Always. You’re welcome to hold your baby through the entire visit, and we prefer it that way.
How many visits will my child need?
Kids often respond faster than adults do. We’ll give you a straight recommendation after the first visit, and we’ll tell you when we think you’re done rather than keeping you on a schedule indefinitely.
Do you work with our pediatrician?
Happily. Chiropractic care sits alongside your child’s medical care, and we’ll never ask you to choose between the two.
Bring Your Little One In
Booking takes about 60 seconds. Bring your questions, and bring the siblings too.