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T-ShirtDynasty said:Yup. After he got over his initial shock at just how bad my son's neck was, he asked about the delivery. It was a traumatic delivery that happened VERY fast, 45 minute labor, and he started down the canal out of position, then turned out to have the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The Doc just nodded and said it sounds like it was very likely it happened during delivery and had been like this since day 1 for the little guy. He said he checked both his kids immediately after delivery and one was totally fine and the other was almost as out of whack as my little guy.
Here's the the kick in the pants. The Speech Pathologist that spent three days a week at my house had a child of her own with a similar hearing situation and the same results from a Chiropractor, yet she was barred by law (State of Maine, I believe) from recommending Chiropractics as a possible treatment!!! She had first hand knowledge that could have helped us, but couldn't say anything about it. When we told her we were taking our son to one, she smiled and admidted that if we hadn't come up with it on our own, she was going to have to find a way to creatively put the idea in our heads.
It may be surprising to many just how many newborns enter this world in pretty bad shape with various forms of musculoskeletal and soft tissue disorders. These poor little souls can't communicate their discomfort to us (nor do they even know it's problematic) which means the usually end up living in their various states of pain for years and years. Often times a 5 minute visit to a chiropractic centre solves the problem.
As for the politics that you endured in this, it's terribly unfortunate. Fortunately it is getter better as the chiropractic profession is making great strides in the public's acceptance of chiropractic care. This after organized medicine used a campaign of misinformation and slander to almost destroy the chiropractic profession not that long ago. But I digress.