Chiropractic for Children

Every child with a vertebral subluxation needs chiropractic care. By correcting nerve interference, function is improved, with greater expression of human potential.

Psychiatrist Peter Breggin, M.D., wrote, “Hyperactivity is the most frequent justification for drugging children. The difficult-to-control male child is certainly not a new phenomenon, but attempts to give him a medical diagnosis are the product of modern psychology and psychiatry. At first psychiatrists called hyperactivity a brain disease. When no brain disease could be found, they changed it to ‘minimal brain dysfunction.’ When no minimal brain disease could be found the profession transformed the concept into ‘minimal brain dysfunction’. When no minimal brain dysfunction could be demonstrated, the label became attention deficit disorder. Now it’s just assumed to be a real disease, regardless of the failure to prove it so. Biochemical imbalance is the code word, but there’s no more evidence for that than there is for actual brain disease.” While chiropractors do not “treat” ADD or ADHD, the effects of chiropractic care on children diagnosed with learning disorders and hyperactivity have been described in a growing body of scholarly publications.

A study published in 1975 compared chiropractic care to drug treatment in children with learning and behavioral impairments due to neurological dysfunction. It was reported that chiropractic care “was more effective for the wide range of symptoms common in the neurological dysfunction syndrome in which thirteen symptom or problem areas were considered.” The study’s authors, E.V. Walton and Walter T.Brzozowski, also reported that chiropractic care was 24 percent more effective than commonly used medications. Every child with vertebral subluxation needs chiropractic care, regardless of whether symptoms are present. By correcting nerve interference, function is improved, with greater expression of human potential. Many families report terminating drug therapy and then seeing the personality, will and soul of the child unfold. As Maria Montessori wrote, “it is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.”