Migraine In children and Adults Migraine is a common cause of undiagnosed headache in children. Studies suggest that around 60% of children aged between 7 and 15 experience headache. Around 1-2% of 7-year-olds and 2.5% of 9-year-olds have migraine; more than 5% of 15-year-olds are affected. Migraine affects boys and girls equally until puberty, after which migraine is more prevalent in girls. Severe pain and vomiting mean that children...

Backpack Safety – Parents are the Best Advocates Children make over 10,000 backpack-related visits annually to emergency departments or physicians. The daily stress of carrying a backpack on one shoulder has been shown to alter a child’s posture and gait. Despite this evidence, it seems parents may not be addressing the issue. Parental knowledge of their children’s backpack weights was determined by evaluating 188 students, grades...

Another summer is gone and we send our kids back to school. On the school supplies list, the first item is, usually, a backpack. But is this very useful item damaging our children’s spine and posture. The backpack itself it may be innocent but when we load it with heavy books and other things that we have to fit inside things are not so harmless. Over 79 million students carry a backpack to school each day. While carrying a backpack...

Yet another summer is gone and we send our kids back to school. On the school supplies list, the first item is, usually, a backpack. But is this very useful item damaging our children’s spine and posture. The backpack itself it may be innocent but when we load it with heavy books and other things that we have to fit inside things are not so harmless. Is It Bad To Carry Weight On Your Back? Actually, when wearing a backpack, the weight...

Chiropractic Care And Sport Injuries The benefits of Chiropractic often extend far beyond what the general public might think are isolated to the back and the spine. Yes, Doctors of Chiropractic do provide treatments and relief to this key area, but the ability of the profession to help definitely extends to the body as a whole. The Benefits Of Chiropractic Care And Sport Related Injuries Consider, for example, the athlete or even the...

Chiropractic Is NOT Just For Adults But Also Children If you have a colicky baby, and other forms of treatment don’t seem to be helping very much, and you’re at your wits end, you may want to investigate bringing your baby in for a checkup. As your child is being born, the neck and back vertebrae can go out of alignment due to the stretching and compressing of the body as it emerges into the world. If your delivery included a prolonged...