Where I
work (Germany, Belgium, Switzerland) I do not deem it
necessary to let the parents sign a written [consent] form.
All parents receive a folder explaining the procedure and
the eventual reactions of the children. To our knowledge
there are no serious side effects to manual therapy in
children (MTC) if the guidelines laid down here are
followed. Our archives comprise more that 25 000 children
treated in our practice (as of July 2003) and another group
at least as big as this one treated by colleagues who
follow the same procedure (Page 238).
Biedermann,
H. (Ed.) Manual Therapy in Children. 2004. Churchill
Livingstone. ISBN 0 443 10018 7
What
matters is the balance of the effectiveness versus risk,
and that is strongly in favour of manipulation
Waddell
G. Evidence for manipulation is stronger than that for most
orthodox medical treatments. BMJ, 318:262, 1999
Current
News and Events:
ICPA
Members Define the Practice of Pediatric Chiropractic
The ICPA’s
groundbreaking new study,
The Safety and Effectiveness of Pediatric Chiropractic: A
Survey of Chiropractors and Parents in a Practice-Based
Research Network, was published
this month in the prestigious biomedical journal, Explore:
The Journal of Science and Healing. The objective of the
study was to describe the practice of pediatric
chiropractic, including its safety and effectiveness. View
the current ICPA Children's Safety: Phase One Press Release
here:
ICPA Press Release for the Children's Safety: Phase One
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Why see a chiropractor if you don't have back pain?
1. to prevent it
a. most symptoms
are
the last
thing to appear
b. your back houses your nervous
system and is
connected all the way from your organs
to
your brain and
most medical doctors have little musculoskeletal training
2. to bring your child
a. children can be born
with a spinal
problem that is undetected by medical means
b. some drugs save lives, but children respond to
chiropractic care often quicker than dangerous
drugs
in
cases of spinal pain and chronic illness
c. many children get relief from common
childhood
complaints with medical co-management and many times
without
see a debate about this here where i appear
on national TV and make up your own
mind
3. chiropractic is about health from
within
a. its only a seemingly recent phenomenon, but nobody can
heal you but yourself.
Even
Hippocrates knew this.
b. drugs
do
not heal,
they may help
c. chiropractic does not
heal
anyone, you
do
it yourself, chiropractors help
4. health comes from within and all
healers
are just facilitators
a. the body has its own intelligence,
so why does medical care scare us?
b. How can we instigate health without fear?
c. If you dont want to be like your mother or father, what
are you doing about it?
d. If health comes from within,
why are there so many vendors promising you salvation?
e. It helps to have a radiology licence, diagnosis and
pathology training; also epidemiology, microbiology and all
the -ologies that make up 5 to 6 years of undergrad and
post-grad study.
5. There are more questions than answers, but one thing is
for sure: The
spine
houses
the nervous
system and the
nervous system can set up bad circuits to the
brain
and
body
that cause
illness. All through joint and muscle abnormalities.
Click Below to see Indications for Using Chiropractic Care:
healing continuum
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