by Administrator
14. March 2010 13:00
According to a case study published in July 2006 issue of peer-reviewed, scientific publication, The Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics (JCCP), chiropractic care imparted to nine month old infant girl showed improvement in her condition of abnormal sleeping disorder.
As mentioned in the article, average sleep time for a nine month old infant girl is approximately 14 hours per day. The girl in the study has a history of disturbed sleep and fussiness. The infant was also showing signs of unsettled behavior as she was refusing to breastfeed on one side. Child was also, since birth, not turning her head towards left.
The child would start crying or move away when her neck was touched. Also reduced neck motion towards left was confirmed in examination. It was also noted that there was significant muscle tension in the left and upper neck. Appropriate course for adjustments was initiated to treat subluxations present in neck.
The study mentions that significant improvements after treatment were noted. The baby girl slept for 5 hours on that afternoon and had 2 periods of 6 hours sleep that night. During the course of treatment for next three weeks, the daytime sleep got shorter but the night time sleep remained between 6 and 8 hours. The child also had improved neck motion range and was able to comfortably respond to sound on the left side. The baby girl also began to feed freely and comfortably.
The study concluded that chiropractic care had positive effect on baby girl in improving disturbed sleeping pattern and was able to resolve subluxations properly enabling proper range of motion of neck.
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