This is a transcript from Dr. Echols' Children and Chiropractic.
Hi, my name is Dr. Echols and this is my friend Raeley. Today we are going to talk a
little bit about kids and chiropractic care. I’ve had many patients in the past be a little bit surprised when I
talked with them about getting their kids under chiropractic care. They thought why would we need to have our kids
under chiropractic care? Surely, they can’t have spinal problems as a kid. Well, often times that is true. A lot of
times children don’t have spinal problems. In other words they don’t have any spinal pain at that time.
But often times, misalignments or subluxations in the spine actually have there origins in the traumas of
childhood. According to OSHA, the Occupational Safe Health Administration, by the time a child is 11 years old they
have had over 7,000 traumas to their spine already. And if you think about it the traumas actually start with
birth.
Coming through that birth canal is quite an experience. Matter of fact it is so traumatic that most of us don’t
even remember it, right? But, uh, we all have slips and falls as we are learning to walk, we fall hundreds if not
thousands of times. We start to ride our tricycle and we have problems with that and we fall on our bicycle a lot.
My oldest son ran into a tree and youngest one ran into a mailbox while learning to ride their bicycles. So all of
these things impact the spine.
Now often times the child won’t have any immediate pain from something like that, but what it does do it will
set up a misalignment somewhere in the spinal column and if that just sits there as the child gets older and older
that will start to create a problem. So, my philosophy is why not fix it before if became a problem. Other than
just waiting for it to sit there silently and get worse and worse and worse until finally it does become a problem.
When I look at my patient’s x-rays and their in their twenties or even early thirties I see a lot of their problems
in their spine actually started when they were children.
So, you have the option, you can just wait until it starts hurting or you can go ahead and get your children
under chiropractic care and make some of these corrections so that they grow up as strong and healthy as they can
be. Also, when you get a chiropractic adjustment your immune system is strengthen by that. So your immune system,
they say the white blood cell count goes way up 15,000 when you get an adjustment. That helps make their little
immune systems that much more resilient, much more resistant to the stressors that the environment places on
it.
Miss Raeley has been a patient of mine actually since she was a little bitty baby. Since she was just born. And
adjustments on children are very, very safe because they are very, very gentle. Now think we are going to be
showing you how to do that hear in a few minutes. Kids in chiropractic, a good idea. A good alternative to keeping
them out of the doctor’s office, where their only hope is antibiotics and even maybe more dangerous things.
Child Chiropractic Care
Today we are going to Raeley and adjustment so you can see how that looks. “Raeley are you ready for your
adjustment? Alright. Very Good. Come on down here. Very Good.”
“Breathe out for me all the way out, thata girl. There we go. Good. Did that feel good. All right. No roll on
your side facing me. Thata girl. You get to give yourself a big huge like that. Very good. All right. Miss Raeley I
want you to, there you go, you got your feet uncrossed. Just relax. There we go. Very nice. Well done young lady.
Perfect.” Ok, this is Wyatt. One of my best patients, we are going to give him an adjustment today too. “Go ahead
and lay face down here for me.”