Christmas is just around the corner! And we will be celebrating! From 24 December onwards, in fact! We’ll be open once more on 6 January 2026!

Before we do, I’d like to say thank you to my clinic team. It’s always a pleasure working with them and 2025 has been no different. What makes this practice a success is their unfailing hard work, resilience, and good humour. Thank you Helen!

So, a round of applause to the team, and another for you, our patients. Your support and care this last year has been phenomenal.

We’ve spoken a lot over the last 12 months about how good Chiropractic care is for the human body.  It’s not only a good way to solve back pain. While having a misaligned spine is uncomfortable, it also, by interfering with them, puts a large strain on all your systems, including sleep, digestion, emotions, posture, focus, and your immune system.

How does a misaligned spine interfere with these systems?

All your systems are results of messages from your brain to your organs, nerves, and muscles.  These messages are carried along your nerves that move through gaps in your vertebrae.  A misaligned spine reduces that space, making the sending of messages slower, fragmented, or misinterpreted.  As adults, without Chiropractic care, we’ve had time to develop ways of coping with that…to a certain extent.  Coffee, antacids, anger management, etc., but they only go so far.  The better option is, of course, Chiropractic care!

Chiropractic care is not only for adults.  However, Chiropractic care for children requires specialised training.  Paediatric Chiropractors must undertake extensive training to work with children of all ages.  This gentle, holistic, completely natural, drug-free approach aligns your child’s once more and resets all their systems.

How can Chiropractic care help?

7 Benefits Parents Expect For Their Children From Paediatric Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care is not one-size-fits-all.  A Chiropractor adjusts treatment to fit a specific problem on individual clients.  And the same applies to the care given to children.  The techniques used to treat children are surprisingly gentle, non-invasive, and suitable for the child’s age, size, and development. 

Not only does this form of care reset their nervous system functions, but it naturally supports their growth and development, helps their body naturally normalise, optimise its functions and heal. So, what are the 7 benefits?

• Better digestive health
• Better posture and physical development
• Enhanced emotional regulation
• Improved cognitive function and focus 
• Improved sleep 
• Stronger immune system
• Overall improvement in health

 3 Types of Chiropractic Care Techniques for Children

All 3 are gentle and developed specifically for small bodies

• Cranial techniques 
• Spinal adjustments 
• Soft tissue therapy

A short list of problems which Paediatric Chiropractic Care can help

• ADHD
• Asthma
• Colic 
• Ear infections
• Poor immune system

To be clear, when we’re talking about ‘children’, we mean those from 3 years and up. 

As with adults, chemical, emotional, or physical stress can result in tensions which lead to misalignments, a.k.a. subluxations in a child’s body.  While we don’t offer this service to children under 3 at our clinic, we can refer our patients to Chiropractors who do.