Chiropractic Care Improves Colic In Crying Babies

 

The video discusses a very common problem in infants, colic.

10 to 30% of babies have colic which is unexplained crying in what appears to otherwise be a healthy baby.

This takes a huge toll on tired parents that wonder what is wrong with their baby while they lose sleep night after night.

It’s concerning too, are they missing something? Why is the baby crying? Obviously he or she has something wrong or they wouldn’t be crying so often.

Several studies suggest that there is something a parent can do, Chiropractic Care.

A 2007 study out of the UK looked at the effect of chiropractic care on colicky, crying babies that were 8 weeks old or younger were treated for 10 days.

After 10 days, the chiropractic treated babies cried an average of 2 hours less per day compared to the untreated babies.

Each of the chiropractic treated babies was much less likely to cry than the untreated ones.

This is really impressive and likely means a much more well rested mom, dad, and baby.

Even more important possibly is the thought, why is the baby crying less?

It would appear on the surface that maybe they feel better.

It’s hard to know exactly from the study and certainly the 2 month old baby can’t tell us.

We don’t know for sure.

What’s interesting is that people commonly would not believe a baby could be treated by a chiropractor because they envision a treatment like that which would be done on an adult.

This is certainly not the same treatment used on a baby. It’s more often a few very small, slow movements for a specific reason.

The baby does not have good muscle tone and fast stretches that might be appropriate in an older individual isn’t here. Obviously other things are very different as well.

In any event, it’s very interesting to look at the very positive results of the study that suggest chiropractic care may help… and as mentioned in the video, there really aren’t many other options that help.