Monday, March 31, 2008

Overcoming bedwetting

Another success story in our house is that our now 10 year old son has had bed wetting issues since he was potty trained. For years everyone told us it was normal for boys, but this didn't seem 'normal'. It was a nightly occurance and sometimes would happen two times a night. Last quarter at school, our intern decided to try a sacral adjustment on him. That night, our son wet the bed more than I'd ever seen. It was really bad and I was really concerned. But the next several nights, he stayed dry. Our chiropractic intern told us that with a deep sacral adjustment, sometimes that happens. We quickly realized that if our son got a sacral adjustment, he had huge success. He is now wetting the bed MAYBE once every 2-3 weeks, instead of nightly. We are very pleased!!!

Kelly M

Fighting Constipation

I guess I should probably post a couple of my own. We have so many success stories in our household, but these are the most 'dramatic'. My daughter has had constipation for all of her 7 years of life. It was not uncommon for her to go a full week without ever 'going' and it would take her an hour of sitting in the bathroom before she could ever actually go. This quarter we got an amazing intern at school who had heard of some success with constipation by adjusting the Atlas. He decided to try toggling her atlas and immediately we saw results. She is now going approximately every other day-still not ideal, but a HUGE improvement. Now we don't go a single week without having her toggled and the results are amazing!

Kelly M

Adj. a 6 month old baby who had never pooped

Not long after we took Adrik, my mom was in a grocery store, and somehow got on the subject of chiropractors with the cashier, and mentioned that we had taken Adrik. The lady in line behind my mom was holding a baby, I can't remember how old, less than 6 months. The lady said that her son hadn't EVER pooped, since he was born. The doctors were all VERY concerned, and had run all kinds of tests. They had said that he needed MAJOR surgery and it would be very risky. Someone had suggested they take the baby to a chiropractor just a last-ditch effort before sending him to such a traumatic surgery. So, they did, and the baby pooped while the chiropractor was working on him!!! The baby had been having regular bowel movements since then, but they were still seeing the chiropractor for a while, just in case. My mom said it was a really cool story, and the mom of this baby was almost in tears as she was telling it!

Lisa F.

Adjustments to a 3 month old

We took Adrik to a chiropractor when he was 3 months old! He was VERY stiff when he was born, and would arch backwards so badly that we literally could not hold on to him. We were told he may have cerebral palsy, then we were told he had a simple torticollis, and all sorts of other things. Finally someone suggested a chiropractor and we thought, "why not?!" The guy we went to had young children of his own and told us that he had adjusted all of them before they even went home from the hospital! We realized that Adrik had been head down and very low in my pelvis for the entire last trimester, and a vacuum had been used on him during birth. Those two things were causing his stiffness, and after just a couple of appointments he was totally fine! The chiropractor didn't actually "crack" him or anything, but had other techniques for adjusting such a small baby.

Lisa F

Here I go again...

Yep, ANOTHER blog. I'm finding that these are just great ways to organize information while sharing it with other people as well. Lately I've had so many people wanting to share their Chiropractic success stories with me. These stories are so inspiring to me and I know that they will be what keeps me going when things get stressful and chaotic. It'll help me remember why I'm doing what I'm doing. So, if you have chiropractic success stories, I'd love to add them.

And please, no taking of the stories off of this blog. I've gotten permission from each person to post their story, but that does NOT make them free public access. Please emial me if you want permission from the person who's story is here and I will contact them for you.