Family Focused Pediatric Chiropractic Care
Kids First ~ Chiro Kids
Growing up isn't always easy, from a traumatic birth, tumbles when learning to walk, spills off of a bicycle, to neck-pain from extended electronic use and much more!
Chiropractic care enhances overall health, helps boost the immune system and supports proper posture and alignment as your child grows.
Are "Growing Pains" a Myth?
While the Pain is Real, most studies deomostrate the pain is not caused by growing
Growing pains in children’s legs have been debated for hundreds of years. Through the history of medicine growing pains have been attributed to multiple incorrect theories such as, rheumatic fever, psychological disorders, and even hair and eye color. In the 1930’s researchers proposed a link between orthopedic foot conditions and growing pains but it did not gain much traction and was dismissed. Over the next 80 years many studies have been done linking foot deformity to growing pains. Many doctors now firmly believe growing pains are a myth and the real reason for the pain is abnormal foot function affecting the lower leg muscles.
Growing pains is an accepted medical term, though the pains are not due to growing. The typical case of growing pains occurs in a healthy, clinically normal, young child, in the middle of the night, causing intense pain for 10 to 15 minutes in both legs (knees, thighs, calves or shins).
The majority of growing pains that present into physicians’ offices are the result of chronic subluxation of the subtalar joint, creating transient synovitis with referred pain symptoms into the lower leg, typically with cessation of activity.
In a recent study published in Podiatry Management, eleven children age 5-15 were fitted with functional orthotics to control their excessively flat feet and all eleven children had complete resolution of their “growing pains”. Functional orthotics are inserts placed in the shoes that are made to fit an individual’s feet. They allow the foot and leg to function is a more neutral and natural position.
