Little girl's life changed by chiropractic
The child's parents brought her to a local chiropractor,
presenting with a cocktail of horrible symptoms including common neurological
autism manifestations, unrelenting headaches, acid reflux, vomiting,
sleeplessness and seizures. Subluxation-based specific chiropractic care was
performed on the patient, which resulted in complete resolution of her
headaches, acid reflux, vomiting and sleeplessness within one month.
Significant improvements in autism-related issues were also noted, including
calm behavior, increased eye contact, happier demeanor, improved attitude,
increased focus and attention, and an initiation to sound out words. The study
reports that the girl continues to progress as evidenced by a significantly
increased vocabulary, continued improvement in attention and focus, and complete
lack of epileptic episodes.
According to her mother, the patient from this case study has
been "off all of her medications, she's making improvements with her
occupational therapists, speech therapists, even her pre-school teachers are
noticing a big difference. I'm getting my little girl back - look, she's making
eye contact with me, and even starting to say a few words! She'll use her hands
to do the motions to the Itsy Bitsy Spider song!" Her mother cannot stress
enough the impact that chiropractic care has had on her daughter.
Natural
health experts speak out
According to Dr. Matthew McCoy, a chiropractor, public health
researcher and editor of the journal that published the study, "If you
damage or compress or otherwise interfere with the neurological structures in
the spine this can have far reaching implications on the functioning of the
body. Through research reports like this we are finding that correcting the
misalignments or abnormal motion associated with these spinal problems reduces
the nerve interference and people experience improvement."
The authors of the study stated, "We believe that
working together, chiropractors, MDs, occupational therapists, and other health
care provides will see results by managing the root cause(s) and not just the
various symptoms presented by ASD children."
Vertebral
subluxation
"Finding the cause of autism, and not simply masking the
symptoms, is the most effective way of managing the disease," one author
of the study says. One such risk is thought to be spinal misalignments and/or
abnormal motion of the spine, termed "vertebral subluxations" by
chiropractors, which result in structural and neurological interference to the
spine and nervous system. It is this interference that may cause a cascade of
neuroendocrine events that lead to abnormal cholesterol metabolism. The theory
is that, once those spinal distortions are corrected, the body is better able
to balance its physiology.
Not surprisingly, other researchers have found similar
results in regard to diseases in the autism spectrum being managed by
chiropractic adjustments, and this case is one of several emerging studies
describing this phenomena.
The authors call for further study in a controlled
environment.
This post was originally published here: Chiropractic
Adjustments Shown To Reverse Autism In Three-Year Old Girl
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