Boost Your Child’s Wellness with Pediatric Chiropractic
At ChiroHouse, we provide chiropractic care for children from birth, ensuring they grow up healthy, resilient, and thriving. While children are naturally designed to be strong and resilient, many families today are facing an array of challenges like colic, constipation, recurrent ear infections, allergies, sensory issues, developmental delays and more.
Our approach to pediatric chiropractic care is like nurturing a garden. Just as proper soil, nutrients, and sunlight help a garden grow strong and adaptable, chiropractic care from birth helps promote a clear and connected nervous system, laying the foundation for your child’s long-term health. By supporting the nervous system, children can develop with greater resilience and are better able to adapt to the changes they encounter as they grow.
Some common signs a child’s body may be experiencing stress and would benefit from being checked and adjusted are:
Frequent illnesses or colds – Your child may be getting sick more often due to a weakened immune system.
Attention or focus challenges – Struggling with concentration or sitting still.
Emotional regulation difficulties – Mood swings, trouble managing emotions or outbursts
Hyperactivity or impulsiveness – Being overly active or impulsive because their nervous system is overstimulated.
Sleep issues – Trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or bed wetting.
Digestion issues - Complaints of stomach discomfort, constipation, or reflux.
Nursing challenges – Difficulty with latching or feeding, or always favouring one side while nursing
Frequent ear infections – Chronic ear infections that continue to appear despite rounds of antibiotics
Help Your Child Get Off to a Great Start in Life!
We use gentle, specific chiropractic techniques for infants and children, and our doctors at Ottawa ChiroHouse have extensive training, including post-graduate certifications in pediatric chiropractic care.
Frequency Asked Questions about Chiropractic Care for Kids
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Pediatric chiropractic care is a gentle, non-invasive treatment that focuses on ensuring your child’s nervous system is functioning optimally. It helps promote healthy growth, development, and resilience, addressing issues such as colic, ear infections, digestive problems, and more.
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Absolutely! We recommend infants get checked as soon as possible after birth to relieve any stress or tension from the birth process. Infant care is gentle and specific, the force can be compared to the force you would us when touching your finger to your eyelid.
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Yes! Pediatric chiropractic care is completely safe. Ottawa ChiroHouse chiropractors use gentle techniques specifically designed for children, ensuring they receive effective care without discomfort.
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Research has shown that 10 weeks of chiropractic care can reduce the frequency of bed-wetting. Some kids experienced a 50% reduction in wet nights!
Bed-wetting, also known as nocturnal enuresis, is defined as the involuntary loss of urine at night, in the absence of organic disease, at an age when a child could reasonably be expected to be dry (typically by the age of five). As many as 25% of children may regularly experience bed-wetting.
Despite its prevalence, the exact cause of nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting) is often unclear. For some children, it may be that they are deep sleepers and unaware that their bladder is full. Another possibility is that the presence of stool may contribute to enuresis by placing pressure on the bladder and reducing its size. In both cases, it seems that the brain isn’t receiving strong enough signals to wake the child up and go to the toilet. Other possible causes include emotional stressor a medical condition such as a bladder infection.
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The good news is that there is a growing body of research suggesting that babies with colic who receive chiropractic care cry significantly less than those who do not.
In a randomised controlled trial on infants with colic, the babies who received chiropractic care cried for an hour and a half less per day on average after just 10 days, compared to the babies who didn’t receive chiropractic care.
For parents with an infant suffering from colic, the frustration often comes from the fact that the exact cause of infantile colic is unknown, and traditional medical treatments generally don’t provide significant relief. The mainstay of medical care for colic in babies typically involves parental reassurance and support, with the understanding that colic is relatively benign and that most children will likely “grow out of it”.
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The frequency of chiropractic care depends on your child’s individual needs and health goals. After an initial assessment which includes INSiGHT neurological scans (which assess the state of your child’s nervous system) your chiropractor will create a personalized care plan for your child.
Chiropractic care for the whole family
We’ve designed our practice with families in mind. We want care to be as accessible as possible which is why we have family pricing plans, a feeding/ changing rooms for parents, flexible appointment scheduling, parking and play space to make it as easy as possible for your family to prioritise care.
