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How safe is chiropractic
for my child?
Chiropractic is one of the safest forms of health care. A baby's
spine is very supple during the first few months of life and
there are Chiropractic techniques that apply only a slight
pressure to make spinal adjustments. Under normal circumstances,
chiropractic adjustments are painless and will not hurt your
child. In Chiropractic do not use drugs which sometimes cause
more harmful side effects than the progression of many diseases.
Drugs can also create the potential for addiction, even in young
children. In Chiropractic we do not perform any invasive
procedures (such as surgery) which sometimes can have
irreversible adverse effects. These are some of the reasons why
malpractice insurance rates for chiropractors are only a
fraction of what other physicians pay and why more than 30
million Americans choose chiropractic care for their children
and themselves. Chiropractic shown to be Safe for Children In a
literature research study conducted by the International
Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) the risk of injury as
a result of chiropractic adjustments was shown to be extremely
low for adults and even smaller for the pediatric patient. In
reviewing 31 years of medical literature the ICPA found only one
questionable report of injury to a child following chiropractic
care of a child. This ICPA concluded "the potential risk to
children is so low it can not be accurately estimated".
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