Positive Effects of Chiropractic Treatments of Colic
Children are our future.
Often times I find when they are under the weather or show signs of a potential disorder, doctors are quick to label a diagnosis on them and put pills into their system first.
The immune system as well as every other system of the body is going under great changes in development.
By interfering with this the system of this child is not being given the chance to fully develop naturally.
Primary care modalities are often overlooked where research shows improvement has occurred in other children.
Why not give a more natural treatment first and resort to an unnatural chemical as a last resort? While many diseases have the potential to affect children, one of the most common is one, which sets in within the first couple weeks of life.
It is identified as colic.
It is unknown why colic occurs but the young child feels severe or fluctuating pain in the colon.
These painful symptoms of colic are thought to be caused by gas or obstruction.
It is hypothesized that this pain is caused by a digestive system that is not fully functional and thus, no matter what the source of nutrients (mothers milk or formula), it occurs in approximately 20% of infants between the ages of 1-4 weeks.
[i] In Denmark, chiropractic manipulative therapy (hereinafter CMT) has been used with reports of success in the treatment of colic i, with a 90% success rate.
[ii] Numerous case studies and randomized control trials have been performed in the treatment and success of treating colic with CMT.
In one such study, Klougarti followed 316 cases.
94% received upper cervical adjustments.
After only one week, 91% of the participants of this study were either improved or cured of symptoms all together.
Wiberg et al.
did another study in which, infants were medically diagnosed with infantile colic.
The infants received either dimethicone or CMT.
After 2 weeks of treatments, the dimethicone participants showed no significant improvement.
The group receiving chiropractic adjustments continued to show gains in improvement.
[iii] In September of 2010, a study done by Wilberg, et al.
[iii] came out in 2010 in the Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapy (JMPT), which was designed to determine if the successful CMT treatment of colicky infants was due to their increasing age in which there is typically a decline in crying.
This study was quite thorough, recording the results of 749 infant participants.
The result of the study was there is no significant correlation between the reduction or elimination of symptoms due to age and CMT.
The studies, which were conducted by Klougart et al.
I and Nilsson focused purely on the effects of chiropractic adjustments with the treatment of colic while the studies referenced in the JMPT by Wilberg, et al.
[iii] delved a bit deeper in determining if natural causes reduced or eliminated the symptoms of colic.
It appears all studies would indicate that chiropractic treatment, with the focal point on upper cervical treatments, reduce or eliminate any and all symptoms of colic.
[i] Klougart N.
Nilsson N, Jacobsen K.
Infantile colic treated by chiropractors: a prospective study of 316 cases.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1989; 12:281-288 [ii] Nilsson N.
Infantile colic and chiropractic.
Eur J Chiro 1985; 33:264-265 [iii] Wilberg, KR, Wilberg, JM J Manipulative Physiol Ther.
2010 Sep;33(7):536-541
Often times I find when they are under the weather or show signs of a potential disorder, doctors are quick to label a diagnosis on them and put pills into their system first.
The immune system as well as every other system of the body is going under great changes in development.
By interfering with this the system of this child is not being given the chance to fully develop naturally.
Primary care modalities are often overlooked where research shows improvement has occurred in other children.
Why not give a more natural treatment first and resort to an unnatural chemical as a last resort? While many diseases have the potential to affect children, one of the most common is one, which sets in within the first couple weeks of life.
It is identified as colic.
It is unknown why colic occurs but the young child feels severe or fluctuating pain in the colon.
These painful symptoms of colic are thought to be caused by gas or obstruction.
It is hypothesized that this pain is caused by a digestive system that is not fully functional and thus, no matter what the source of nutrients (mothers milk or formula), it occurs in approximately 20% of infants between the ages of 1-4 weeks.
[i] In Denmark, chiropractic manipulative therapy (hereinafter CMT) has been used with reports of success in the treatment of colic i, with a 90% success rate.
[ii] Numerous case studies and randomized control trials have been performed in the treatment and success of treating colic with CMT.
In one such study, Klougarti followed 316 cases.
94% received upper cervical adjustments.
After only one week, 91% of the participants of this study were either improved or cured of symptoms all together.
Wiberg et al.
did another study in which, infants were medically diagnosed with infantile colic.
The infants received either dimethicone or CMT.
After 2 weeks of treatments, the dimethicone participants showed no significant improvement.
The group receiving chiropractic adjustments continued to show gains in improvement.
[iii] In September of 2010, a study done by Wilberg, et al.
[iii] came out in 2010 in the Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapy (JMPT), which was designed to determine if the successful CMT treatment of colicky infants was due to their increasing age in which there is typically a decline in crying.
This study was quite thorough, recording the results of 749 infant participants.
The result of the study was there is no significant correlation between the reduction or elimination of symptoms due to age and CMT.
The studies, which were conducted by Klougart et al.
I and Nilsson focused purely on the effects of chiropractic adjustments with the treatment of colic while the studies referenced in the JMPT by Wilberg, et al.
[iii] delved a bit deeper in determining if natural causes reduced or eliminated the symptoms of colic.
It appears all studies would indicate that chiropractic treatment, with the focal point on upper cervical treatments, reduce or eliminate any and all symptoms of colic.
[i] Klougart N.
Nilsson N, Jacobsen K.
Infantile colic treated by chiropractors: a prospective study of 316 cases.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1989; 12:281-288 [ii] Nilsson N.
Infantile colic and chiropractic.
Eur J Chiro 1985; 33:264-265 [iii] Wilberg, KR, Wilberg, JM J Manipulative Physiol Ther.
2010 Sep;33(7):536-541
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