{"id":6062,"date":"2013-06-14T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:48:43","slug":"why-we-work-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=6062","title":{"rendered":"Why we work with children"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matthew Lapp, MS, D,<\/strong> <\/span>Columnist, The Times<\/span> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"CTColLogoMattLapp\"<\/a>Sometimes when people visit our office and see our wall of children\u2019s pictures they ask why a child would go to a chiropractor.\u00a0 The answer is simple.\u00a0 In most cases we see children not because there is something wrong with them, but because we believe that there is something right with them! Each of us embodies an incredibly wise and wonderfully innate ability to thrive, and children are no exception. And as wellness-based Chiropractors, we work with the body’s central nervous system, which organizes, coordinates and helps facilitate the body’s ability to continually adapt to both internal and external circumstances.<\/p>\n

My wife began seeing a chiropractor at the age of six as a result of an injury to her neck, incurred after tumbling off of the family couch.\u00a0 However, that is not the reason that she became a chiropractor or continues to receive care decades later. In fact, the reason we both chose to become chiropractors is because of the experiences we had in our chiropractors\u2019 offices as children. We recognized, innately, that something incredible was happening inside of us each time we got adjusted.\u00a0 Aside from simply feeling better, we were better able to appreciate the incredible healing power within each of us.<\/p>\n

Recognizing and facilitating this innate wisdom and the body\u2019s power to heal is important, especially when you consider all of the stresses that children face today. Research has shown that stress in a child\u2019s world ranges from their experience in the womb to their actual delivery, the food they eat, the chemicals and toxins they are exposed to in our environment, the emotional turmoil of growing up, the lack (or excess) of physical activities, time management between those activities, parents under stress, and the social and personal pressures of having or being enough. Many of these stresses are no different from generation to generation, however, today they are magnified and are often thought of as a \u201cnormal\u201d part of childhood.<\/p>\n

Some people think of children as \u201cmini-adults,\u201d but in reality that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.\u00a0 Children are growing and developing at a tremendous rate and actively trying to integrate their inner and outer worlds.\u00a0 That\u2019s challenging enough, without the added stresses listed above, thus, each stress that they experience is exponentially multiplied.<\/p>\n

A child under Network Care has the advantage of both connecting to, and releasing the tension patterns that the body has created and stored in order to handle these stresses.\u00a0 Network Care not only allows each child to experience greater connection, but also greater consciousness and new strategies to thrive in the face of life\u2019s challenges. We are so grateful when we get to work with children because we know that their bodies will be in a greater state of harmony and ease and that they have a greater likelihood of being joyous and well.\u00a0\u00a0 The truth is that this is our goal when working with anyone!<\/p>\n

In reality, it\u2019s not just children who possess this ability to heal and thrive in the face of life\u2019s adversities.\u00a0 We all have this ability, but many of us have lost touch with it or allow age to become a linear and physical restriction.\u00a0 It\u2019s contrary to popular culture to trust the miraculous capabilities that our physical bodies are born with.\u00a0 Instead, we\u2019re often encouraged to numb the pain, cut it out, or stay on a path that is leading us to fight against the dis-ease that the body has created as a warning sign for us to pay attention to.\u00a0 If instead, we did as children do and expressed our feelings authentically, focused inward from time to time, and paid attention to the cues of our innate wisdom, we\u2019d all experience greater health, vitality, and joy.<\/p>\n

Drs. Allison and Matthew Lapp are the owners of Salus Chiropractic Studio in Thorndale. For more information, visit him on the web at http:\/\/www.thorndalechiropractor.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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