Can Chiropractic care help with constipation?

We spend a lot of time talking with parents about their child's digestive function and constipation comes up a lot!!

We see many children who are struggling with constipation and just because it is common it does not mean it is normal

If the spine is wound up and not functioning optimally it can cause the nervous system to switch into the sympathetic - fight and flight mode.

When we are in this survival state, functions such as immunity, reproduction, healing, and digestion are suppressed as the brain's main focus is now on surviving immediate danger. It can come back to digesting our lunch and fighting and germs later once we have survived…

The clever nervous system in sympathetic mode directs blood away from the digestive organs to the arms and legs in preparation for fighting and fleeing. Smooth muscles that move our digesting food through the system are told to slow down and gastrointestinal secretions and gastrointestinal sphincters are inhibited.

Chiropractic adjustments are known to have a positive impact on the balance of the autonomic nervous system allowing us to toggle between the parasympathetic nervous system - rest/digest/heal and the sympathetic nervous system - fight/flight/freeze with more ease.

With GREAT communication between the brain and the body healthy bodily and digestive functions heal naturally from the inside-out