Groton Kids Benefit from Chiropractic & Nutritional Care
Kids and nutrition. Groton kids don’t think about it. Groton parents don’t always think about it. But Groton nutrition is important in Groton kids’ spinal development and growth and Groton chiropractic care. Good nutrition also encourages good spine and bone development which your Groton chiropractor thinks about! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office talks nutrition whenever the opportunity presents itself. A good Groton nutritional foundation as a youth quite possibly leads to a healthier spinal life.
WHAT’S HOLDING YOUTH BACK?
So what keeps Groton young people and their Groton parents from thinking about their nutritional status? Expectedly the same things that hold young adults back - belief their diet is appropriate, no symptomatology, and confusion over nutrient sources. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows that a life experience gets attention.
WAKE-UP CALLS
When do young people think about their nutritional status? At the same time it would garner the attention of an adult - when there is pain. Amazingly, 71% of schoolchildren aged 12-17 years say that they had at least one episode of low back pain. (2) 17.4% of students recount cervical spine pain. 18% state low back pain. Older adolescents (24.4%) have more cervical spine pain than younger ones (11.9%). Older adolescents (25.1%) suffer more lumbar spine pain than younger ones (12.4%), too. (3) More girls than boys report back pain. (4) As researchers describe, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office notes that Groton kids with spine pain have some things in common that put them at risk for Groton back pain and neck pain.
RISKS FOR Groton BACK PAIN
What puts kids at risk of spine pain? Lots of factors like limited sun exposure, inadequate vitamin d diets, adiposity, lower physical activity, sedentary lifestyles, vitamin 25 (oh) d deficiency, and lower levels of calcium, creatine kinase, and lactic dehydrogenase. (2) Inactive adolescents have more cervical and lumbar spine pain than active kids. (3) In an 8-month study period, 52.2% of schoolchildren had low back pain. 34% had moderate and 18% had severe back pain. More girls (36%) than boys (24%) report back pain. These moderate and severe pain schoolchildren had higher body mass indices, waist, hip and waist-to-hip ratios. (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office evaluates Groton back pain kids and adults to check for risks and set a treatment plan to thwart them from turning out to be painful realities.
What’s a parent to do? Care for the kids and their Groton spines. Check with your Groton chiropractic physician. Establish a treatment plan that motivates them to be more physical, eat more healthily, take supplements as needed, and be treated with spinal manipulation. It helps!
Schedule a Groton chiropractic visit at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today!
