Dr. Edna will take a thorough history and make sure she understands what you want help with. Her exam will include observing movement and muscle tone, checking reflexes and noting which developmental milestones have been achieved. Several of the observations and tests merely look like Dr. Edna is playing with the child, but there is a lot of information being gathered while she connects with your child through play.

 

Any areas that need to be addressed will be explained to you during the first visit and your questions answered.  Family and Pediatric chiropractors are trained to modify their care to suit the age of the child and special styles of very gentle adjustments are used for babies and young children.

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The adjustment, or correction, includes light touch and gentle stretching.  Depending on the amount of joint restriction and age of your child, an Activator may also be used to get more movement into the joint.  This is a hand- held device that puts a gentle impulse into the joint.  The Activator provides a gentle impulse for the smallest patients with gradually increasing firmness for older children.