Infants with Acid Reflux and Colic Helped by Chiropractic
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Research published in the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health on May 9, 2009 documented the cases of 16 infants who were suffering with colic or acid reflux and got complete resolution of their symptoms with chiropractic care. In this study, seven of the infants were diagnosed by a medical physician with colic, while nine had been diagnosed with acid reflux prior to receiving chiropractic care. The infants in this study ranged in age from two weeks to eleven months.
Of the 16 infants a history of birth trauma was reported in 10 of the cases. Upon examination, upper cervical (neck) subluxations were determined to be present in all 16 cases. In this study chiropractic care was rendered for 2 to 6 weeks on the various infants with all patients showing a complete resolution of their symptoms in that time frame.
Dr. Erin Elster, a chiropractor and the author of the study, explained the relationship between subluxation and colic or acid reflux by saying, “Research is revealing that injuries to the upper part of the neck may be a factor in a number of disorders. These injuries lead to misalignments in the neck that may compress the spinal cord and other nerve structures in the neck. This compression leads to nerve interference and can result in a host of disorders such as colic and acid reflux”.
Dr. Matthew McCoy a chiropractor, public health researcher and editor of the journal that published the study added, “It makes a lot of sense when you think about it. “If you damage or compress the neurological structures in the neck this can have far reaching implications on the functioning of the body. Through research like Dr. Elster’s we are finding that correcting the misalignments associated with these injuries reduces the nerve compression and people improve. In this study it was infants suffering from colic and acid reflux.”
In her conclusions the author, Dr. Elster wrote, “These results suggest a causal link between birth trauma, upper cervical injury, and colic / acid reflux onset. Correcting the injury to the upper cervical spine (with chiropractic adjustments) appears to eliminate colic and acid reflux.”
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You describe yourself as ‘a seeker of honesty’ but you dishonestly fail to give the full name of the journal you cite. It isn’t ‘the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health’. It is ‘the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic’ which fully explains why it comes to positive conclusions about quackery.
@Sword of Truth
I appreciate your comment. Thanks for the correction regarding the journal’s name i.e. “the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health – Chiropractic” . I stand corrected.
I am also impressed that you took the time to read this site’s other pages, especially that you read the “who am I” page found here (for those who want to know where I refer to myself as a seeker of honesty): http://www.wholenessblog.com/about/who-am-i
I love how you people like to use the word quack and quackery. I can’t help not chuckling when I hear these words.. here I go again, he he he
lol
To be clear then, you say that the “the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health – Chiropractic” is promoting quackery, they reach positive results relating to chiropractic because they are a chiropractic journal, correct? Well, to me this sounds like any other research funded by your pharmaceutical companies, they also some how always find a drug that works, don’t they.. and they don’t let the side effects deter them from selling you drugs, in fact they don’t research side effects, because all they wanna do is sell a product to make a profit. How is that not quackery?
Let me guess, you also think the health care system in the US actually works, don’t you?
I wish you well.