When Should You First Be Adjusted?

We'd like to discuss a very important topic as it relates to chiropractic care, and that is “When should chiropractic care start?”  For most people chiropractic care starts with pain or an injury; maybe it's a sports injury or lifting they just wake up and something hurts. Chiropractic does a wonderful job of conservatively managing those conditions and helping people get relief. However, if we really look at when should chiropractic care start, we have some really good research, and I think sometimes some alarming information to people that I was personally unaware of, and that is that a lot of us received our first spinal injury in the birth process, or the first misalignment in our spine. So just to help you with that and to show you that there is validity in this information that I'm sharing with you, I’d like to go through a little bit of some basic science information. I promise you this won't bore you so stay with me on this.  I'm going to do some information from Dr. David Yashon, who was a medical doctor from Ohio State University.  Many years ago he wrote a textbook called Spinal Injury. It is considered a fundamental textbook in spinal care and spinal injuries. So, I just want to give you a little bit of information from this article. The title of chapter 18 is birth injury, and he says and I quote, “It is possible that spinal cord injury at birth is more common that has been thought. Such injuries are due to excessive longitudinal tractioning or pulling especially when combined with flexing, bending or twisting of the spinal axis or the spine. This may occur in breach deliveries, when traction is applied to the trunk, and in manipulating the after coming head as in a vertex delivery or with forceps.”  He says that spinal cord injury should be considered in the presence of neonatal distress, apnea or flaccidity. So anytime a baby is born in distress we should look to the neck or the spine as a possible cause of that.  He quotes in here: “In over ten percent of the 600 fetal and neonatal autopsies in which brain and spinal cord was examined, Dr. Abraham Talvin found evidence of significant spinal cord and brain injury.”  They were saying that out of 600 autopsies that they did on deceased babies, which is kind of difficult to think about, of those 600, 10% of them died because of a spinal cord injury in the birth process.  So the question is can the spine be injured in the birth process? I think this article clearly states that it can. Dr. Talvin, who Dr. Yason referenced in this textbook, also has an article from Developmental Child Neurology that stated hidden or latent spinal cord and brain stem injuries in newborn infants.  He says the significance of spinal cord and brain stem injury at birth is not generally realized.  Birth injuries of this nature sometimes extensive are often hidden.  They’re undiagnosed clinically and are pathological.  During active labor, the spinal column, particularly the neck portion; may be injured as the baby is compressed and forced down the birth canal.  Now listen to what he says here, “Mechanical stresses imposed by the obstetrician; even the application of standard Orthodox procedures, may prove intolerable to the baby.”  We're not saying that somebody is doing something wrong here. We're just saying that due to the nature of the process and sometimes the procedures that are needed to be applied to help bring this baby into life- that there can be pulling and flexing and twisting and torsion on the spine. If we could correct very early on we could prevent a lot of spinal problems and a lot of unrelated health problems down the road. This is an article by Dr. Godfrey Guttman, who was a German researcher, wrote this article and the journal is called Manual Medicine. I just want to read to you a couple lines because I think it's very important.  He said, “Infants and small children have this condition called Blocked Atlantal Nerve Syndrome. The Atlas is the top bone in the neck and when it is misaligned it can block the nerves. The clinical picture range from central motor impairment and development which would affect motor development and function, and then he says they have a lowered resistance to infection, especially to ear, nose and throat infections.  The theoretical background to this syndrome is indicated that the main factor in causation is the neurophysiological connection between the areas of the atlas and occiput. I share this with you this because sometimes this new concept can seem unfamiliar and maybe not even a reality.  Text books and research clearly demonstrate to us that this is an unfortunate thing that does happen, and I can tell you that from my experience of checking hundreds of babies that it is all too common. If we can correct this nerve interference and spinal damage early on in life we can prevent a lot of problems that people maybe never associate with that happening.

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