Chiropractic Care for your Baby and Toddler

Every child is unique and wonderful! Even with our differences, optimal neurodevelopment occurs thanks to optimally timed milestones. There are specific steps we want to see kids achieve in a particular order.  Our team are passionate about supporting families to learn and love neurodevelopment (how a child's brain and body develop) and supporting your toddler to grow the amazing connections in their brain to support these important movement and development checkpoints. 

As chiropractors, we are trained to look at the body from a structural (can your toddler move his body well?), a neurological  (does your toddler’s nervous system work well?) and then a developmental perspective (can your toddler control, co-ordinate and use their body in an organised manner that is age appropriate?).

From crawling to walking and everything in between, we're here to support your toddler's optimal development.

Why Do Parents Choose Chiropractic Care?

Care for Your Toddler

For toddlers, we start to see their body shift. Toddlers are tumbling, falling, bumping heads constantly, throwing their bodies around and still learning to control and protect themselves.

To support this, we focus on ensuring optimal movement patterns. We can see good brain maturation with the integration (turning off) of their primitive reflexes, initial body responses that are present at birth but should disappear in the early years. A child's ability to adapt and their level of resilience are some indicators of their nervous system function.

Some babies and toddlers will have ongoing neck restriction, shoulder restriction or spinal asymmetry of movement that has continued from birth. Others will have been provided with some additional elements of stress with all their adventures!

Paediatric chiropractic care is gentle and specifically designed for a child’s developing body. Unlike adult adjustments, pediatric adjustments use light pressure and non-invasive techniques to ensure comfort and safety.

Research

1. Novel mechanisms, treatments and outcome measures in childhood sleep.Colonna, Annalisa, et al. 2015, Frontiers in Psychology.

2. Sleep Disorders and Sleep Problems in Childhood. Thiedke, C. Carolyn. 2001, American Family Physician, pp. 277-84.

3. Associations Between Sleep Duration Patterns and Behavioral/Cognitive Functioning at School Entry. Touchette, Evelyne, et al. 2007, Sleep, pp. 1213-1219.

4. Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain. Xie, Lulu, et al. Science 342.6156 (2013): 373-377.

5. Long-Term Effects of Infant Colic: A survey comparison of Chiropractic treatment and nontreatment groups. Miller, Joyce E. and Phillips, Holly Lane.2009, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, pp. 635-638.

6. Management of musculoskeletal dysfunction in infants. Yao, Dan, Deng, XingQiang and Wang, MingGuang. 2016, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, pp. 2079-2082.

7. Chiropractic care of a pediatric patient with symptoms associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease, fuss-cry-irritability with sleep disorder syndrome and irritable infant syndrome of musculoskeletal origin. Alcantara, Joel and Anderson, Renata. 2008, Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association , pp. 248-255.

8. Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Pediatric Conditions: A Systematic Review. Posadzki, Paul, Soo Lee, Myeong and Ernst, Edzard. 2013, Pediatrics, pp. 140-152.