Start School Strong: Chiropractic Care for Your Children

The end of summer means the start of a new school year – is your child ready to start the year strong? From carrying heavy backpacks to getting injured while playing team sports, active school-aged children are increasingly at risk for musculoskeletal injuries. Our Fort Worth chiropractic care and wellness team Dr. Chris and Nancy Michlin provide innovative chiropractic treatments tailored to each patient’s unique health needs. Did you know that treatments like atlas orthogonal adjustments are safe and effective for school-aged children, too?

Fort Worth Pediatric Chiropractic Care Benefits

Helping your child grow into a healthy, active adult starts with the right supportive care in childhood. Here’s how pediatric chiropractic care from Back To Health Family Chiropractic can make a difference for you children!

Treat musculoskeletal injuries. Falling down and getting knocked around while playing team sports like soccer or football is a fact of life for most active children. However, while children may seem to bounce back very quickly after an injury, in truth, the internal recovery process can take much longer. A spinal misalignment from a sports injury could affect your child’s healthy, natural development for years to come. For example, spinal misalignments can interfere with optimal nervous system activity and impact the brain’s ability to communicate with the body. Maintaining proper spinal alignment is essential for your child’s health.

Support correct posture. Is your child’s backpack weighing him or her down? Overweight backpacks can cause a host of health problems for children, including poor posture. Your child may lean forward in an attempt to better support the weight, which can lead to hunched shoulders, neck strain, lower back strain, and recurring pain. While reducing the amount of weight that your child carries is important, so too is supporting correcting spinal alignment. Atlas orthogonal adjustments correct the top bone (the atlas bone). This brings alignment back to the entire spine, much like aligning a chain. Correct alignment supports proper posture and reduces the risk for chronic pain.

Could your child benefit from chiropractic care? Contact our Fort Worth family chiropractor today for more information on pediatric care.