When Kim came to see me she had severe head tilt, poor posture, and was in pain. This is not a good state for a young girl, or any person of any age. But we commonly associate joint problems with older people and backaches. Not so.
This case is testimony to the need for research into chiropractic helping children, and media exposure for the recommendation of chiropractic care for children. But the chiropractic option remains unexplored for most people, and not recommended by mainstream disease care.
On the x ray below it is obvious this person needed help. The top horizontal line is level with the atlas (first neck vertebra). After one month of care, it is quite horizontal.
before---- and after one month
Now look at the way her atlas/skull/neck are all related, and the subsequent improvement with leveling out of the head on the neck.
He mother, a midwife, brought her in because her sister in law, niece, and brother were all under my care already and had good results.
This young girl of 12 years was in great need of help as the misalignment of her neck was not only causing the obvious postural distortions you have seen, but also headache, neck ache and a general lack of wellbeing.
She was suffering emotionally as well as physically due to her spinal problems.
You can witness a part of the dramatic changes with the x rays below, taken one month apart. This demonstrates restoration of normal lordosis of the neck:
On the PRE side view of her neck, you can see that her neck is too straight, almost an "S" bend shape, curved the wrong way. On the POST you can see the improvement to near textbook normal.
The person untrained in upper cervical chiropractic may well assume that the x rays are inaccurate or rehearsed or due to position and placement of the patient. This is not necessarily so. Studies show that measurements that upper cervical chiropractors use may be reliable. Click here to learn more about this research
This wonderful child is now healing. She has some time to go yet, but she can enjoy her guitar playing, and agricultural gardening at school better than ever before: with restored function and no pain.
