How Chiropractic Care Helps ADHD

In this health video you will learn how chiropractic care helps ADHD ( attention deficit hyperactive disorder).

Female Speaker: I am speaking with Dr. JaDean Anderson. Dr. Anderson, a person who has child with ADHD, would bringing in them for chiropractic adjustment help. Dr. Anderson: Yes, sometimes a spinal muscle alignment will control, whether or not their organs are functioning properly. In some cases, it’s just a slightness alignment, that’s affecting organs dealing with, with how excited a child gets or how slow and lethargic they are as well. So, sometimes an adjustment, along with work, in those cases we do diet modifications as well, cutting out white sugars, things like that, eating smaller meals throughout the course of the day, seemed to help children that have ADHD very much so. Female Speaker: Addressing nutritional needs, especially cutting up the white sugar, along with the adjustments, what about medication? Dr. Anderson: Medication, that doesn’t really fall in my room for being able to recommend it or not recommend it. I look at it as starting with the least and basic form of treatment possible for the patient. And looking at medication as a last resort to be able to help your child cope with the problems. Female Speaker: If my grand child appeared to have ADHD, I could start by bringing child in for a chiropractic adjustment? Dr. Anderson: Yes. Chiropractic adjustments along with the diet modifications, lots of times helps the child, cope with the problems of ADHD, greatly. In some cases, a little bit longer term with the diet modification will in turn help. So, some times you see rapid changes and other times, it takes a little bit longer duration for them to change and alter to the diet modification. Female Speaker: Oh, that’s exciting, because I would not have thought that a chiropractic adjustment would help with that and possibly you can avoid medication. Dr. Anderson: Right, that’s kind of how we like to approach. All conditions is starting with, with the dressing, the actual cause of the problem and then if we can’t completely fix the problem, then addressing it with medications. Female: Thank you Dr. Anderson.