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Healing Hands 2 Billion Teaching Chiropractors to Teach Mothers Home Chiropractic |
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Healing Hands 2 Billion Teaching Chiropractors to Teach Mothers Home Chiropractic |
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Is your baby fussy? |
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Read the information below -- then if you feel comfortable with it
ASK YOUR CHIROPRACTOR,
"Doctor, what would have to happen
for you to be my coach in this?"
[SAFETY]
Why do babies have these problems? First of all, birth is no picnic. The infant is forced head-first (and usually up hill!) into an exit that is way too small. Then suddenly the lights come on and huge hands start tugging on that tiny neck -- 20-30 pounds (over 10 kg) of pull and twist in the standard North American birthing. After that, statistics show that 50% of infants fall from a bed, chair or table onto their heads in the first year of life. Ouch!
Here is what you can do at home.
Is it any wonder researchers have found that up to 80% of babies have problems in the neck?
[RESEARCH] -- particularly at the important first vertebra. These subluxations
[SUB-LUX-ation] scramble communications between the brain and body. [THE CHIROPRACTIC PRINCIPLES.] About one baby in four has obvious symptoms. Subluxations disrupt the child's ability to fight infections, digest food properly, control temperature. Subluxations may cause pain, vomiting, sleeplessness, and “failure to thrive” -- even cerebral palsy and S.I.D.S.
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INSTRUCTIONS IN BLUE SECTIONS We recommend that you have someone else read, and you follow the instructions in order.
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from within with an insistent demand, with a surety that startles.
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2. THE CENTER PLACE: You are now going to to feel and liberate the spinal joints which are not moving freely. These subluxations
[SUB-LUX-ation] are very common in fussy, colicky, sickly babies -- and after chiropractic adjustments, the symptoms go away for good. You may draw your own conclusions.[RESEARCH]
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Most of the nerves that supply your baby's vital organs leave the spinal cord between various vertebrae
[NOTE] of the mid-back. The lower the organ lies in the body, the lower its nerves exit the spine. Halfway between the shoulder and the hip bones (iliac crests) is the 6th thoracic vertebra, called "the Center Place" by Dr. D.D. Palmer. It is a push button for the stomach.
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 Figure 4
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A. POSITION THE CHILD: You may hold the child in your arms [figure 4], on your lap [figure 5], or lie him face down [figure 6] on a firm surface so that you can move the shoulders with one hand and feel along the spine with your other hand. Always find the position that relaxes the baby emotionally and physically.
B. LOOK: You have already listened intuitively. Now look closely. Often you can see taut, ropey muscles on one side of the spine. Isolated rashes or blemishes on the skin frequently indicate subluxation below.
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C. TOUCH: Next, lightly rub and probe with your fingers. You can often find hidden muscles on one side of the spine that are tight and tense, while the mirror image muscles on the other side are soft and relaxed. |
everything lies in that Mother Teresa
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Feel for unusual, boney hard spots on either side of the spine. You will often find the hard, rigid side locks up when the back moves. These spots generally hurt with just a little pressure -- so be sensitive to your baby's reactions.
Your inner voice, together with these clues, will guide you to subluxations.
[SUB-LUX-ation]
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is love and energy
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E. Home Chiropractic Adjustment: To ADJUST the mid-back subluxation, move the shoulders and body through the motion that is stuck while you press and gently guide the joint that is stuck -- to "un-stick" it. You may very gently bounce you fingers into that spot a few times to free it. F. HEALING INTENTION: As always, pour your love in. Imagine the joint gliding freely, liberated by your nurturing hands. Feel the warm energy pouring through to fill the nearest organs and muscles with healing power. That is what your home chiropractic adjustment does! INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED IN BLUE SECTIONS BELOW
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| Home Chiropractic Does Not Make Mom A Chiropractor | |
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Your doctor of chiropractic (DC) can safely, softly adjust the baby in one-third of a second. You will require 20-30 seconds to make your home chiropractic adjustment. Then you will sometimes need to tenderly re-adjust the same place several times over a few hours to have the same effect as your DC's adjustment. The whole home chiropractic procedure -- listening, feeling and adjusting -- should take less than 2 minutes. Check it again in an hour or so. Adjust if you find it subluxated.
So gentle, so quick.
If you have any concerns at all about your baby's condition, take her to a licenced doctor of chiropractic for professional evaluation.
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INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED We recommend that you have someone else read, and you follow the instructions in order.
3. THE UPPER NECK: These are the most important bones in the body. The brain stem extends down into the top of the neck, directing many automatic body functions -- such as digestion and immunity -- essential to health and well-being.
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Press softly and move slowly
We are not fighting disease, but nurturing health. |
A good therapy is to stimulate the healer within.
Albert Schweizer, MD |
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A. POSITION THE CHILD: Hold the child in your arms [figure 1], on your lap [figure 2] or lie her face up on a soft surface [figure 3]. You will support and guide the baby's head with one hand while you feel the back of the neck with the fingers of your other hand. Find a position that relaxes the baby emotionally and physically.
B. LOOK: Pay attention to whether the muscles on one side of the neck are tight and tense, while the other side are soft and relaxed.
C. TOUCH: Notice if one side of the neck feels soft, while the mirror image side seems boney hard. Often the hard side locks up when the head moves. It also hurts when you press -- so be tender. D. FEEL FOR MOTION: You FEEL subluxations by gently, slowly turning or rocking the head from side to side, while feeling with your fingers for the smooth gliding that should be present between the bones. Compare the joints 1 cm above and 1 cm below, contrast left with right to find what normal feels like. These rigid places generally indicate subluxations.
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is what you bring about. Mary Parker Smith
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E. Home Chiropractic Adjustment: To ADJUST a subluxation is to move it slightly, to free it and relieve the stress it places on the nerves. RESTORE NORMAL MOTION -- While you move the head through the motion that is stuck, press gently on the joint that is stuck -- to "unstick" it, as my wife says. Do this slowly and tenderly several times; 20-30 seconds in all. HEALING INTENTION -- Pour your love in. Imagine the joint gliding freely, and warm, healing energy pouring through to fill your baby's body with harmony and comfort. [THE CHIROPRACTIC PRINCIPLES.]
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F. STOP: If you felt or heard the little joint softly free itself, wonderful. If not, don't worry about it. Now leave it alone.
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4. WHAT TO EXPECT: You may see an instant miracle cure -- but usually relief takes a few moments. Do not be discouraged if it is several minutes after your adjustment when you suddenly realize that the baby is calmer, more relaxed, perhaps sleeping peacefully. You may adjust your baby several times daily to relieve distress.
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RELIEF is not HEALTH. When someone has serious or “long-term” problems, then health returns in cycles -- with more and more ups and fewer downs. With babies, you will usually see positive evidence of real healing after just a few home chiropractic adjustments. Consult with your family chiropractor if you have any questions. Babies have not been subluxated long, so they respond very quickly to chiropractic adjusting. Expect miracles -- but realize that even miracles can take time and effort. Remember pregnancy? |
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5. HOW OFTEN? Check for subluxations as often as you feel drawn to do so, and adjust any that you find. Guided by your loving intuition, gentle home chiropractic is one of the safest gifts you will ever give your baby. Be careful. Be soothing. Listen closely to your inner voice. Over time your loved ones will need fewer and fewer adjustments. Health is your natural state. |
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6. WELLNESS CARE: Every child should be checked weekly or monthly by its Chiro-Mom, and regularly by a licenced chiropractor if possible. It only takes 2-3 minutes to softly, gently, tenderly adjust the child with your loving heart and healing hands. The family chiropractor should check your newborn infant as soon as you both are out of the house or hospital. You will often find subluxations before they cause any symptoms, long before serious diseases develop. Adjust them tenderly. Your children will enjoy marvelously improved health. You will save hundreds of hours of suffering, and thousands of dollars, pounds, Euros, or pesos.
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Chiropractic will add years to your life,
and life to your years.
It will revolutionize the health of your children.
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[SUB-LUX-ation]
What is a subluxation? 1)An incomplete or "minor" dislocation of two vertebrae, which 2) puts stress on nearby nerves, causing 3) decreased light/energy in the body. From the Greek SUB, less than + LUX, dislocate, and from the Latin SUB, inadequate + LUX, light.
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[NOTE] Vertebrae is plural of vertebra. The picture at right shows two vertebrae, and the foramen (window) between them through which the nerve bundle exits. [RETURN] |
 NORMAL JOINT WINDOW OPEN NERVE OK |
You may wish to read related articles that have been printed in other chiropractic publications. For example, click HERE to read "Should Doctors Love Their Patients?" or HERE to read "Chiropractic Can't Help You...", in The Chiropractic Journal, or HERE to read "Drugs, Not Foods, Are Toxic" or HERE to read "Look Again [At Why Chiropractic Really Works]" in Dynamic Chiropractic.
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