Paediatric Chiropractic Care
in The Blue Mountains
Giving Your Little Ones a Healthy Start
At The Mountains Chiropractic in Blackheath, NSW, Dr. Kate Slattery is passionate about ensuring that kids get a healthy start in life. With the goal to optimise their brain-body connection through a healthy, developing spine and nervous system. Helping them grow into thriving adults. We believe in educating kids early on about eating well, staying active, and thinking positively, setting them up for lifelong wellness.
Gentle, Holistic Care for Babies and Children
Infancy and childhood are critical times of rapid growth and development. Many parents bring their babies and children to a chiropractor to ensure their neuromusculoskeletal systems are developing correctly. The birth process, even when smooth, can place significant stress on a baby’s developing body and nervous system. Regular chiropractic checkups help ensure that the connections between the brain and body develop and function optimally, supporting your child’s achievement of developmental milestones.
Dr. Kate is committed to the careful assessment and gentle correction of your child’s spine and nervous system to support their healthy development. Taking a natural, conservative approach, gently assessing and adjusting babies as needed to promote optimal spinal and nervous system function.
Addressing Common Concerns
Common concerns parents have when visiting a chiropractor include head-turning preferences, latching issues, plagiocephaly, colic, constipation, difficulty with tummy time, delays in motor milestones, and balance and coordination issues. Chiropractic care may help address these concerns, ensuring your child's nervous system is functioning at its best.
Supporting Older Children and Teenagers at The Mountains Chiropractic
Addressing Everyday Bumps and Falls
As children get older, they often experience falls and minor injuries while learning to walk, playing at the playground, or just being active. These incidents can interfere with the proper mechanics of the spine's joints, causing nervous system disruptions. Regular chiropractic checkups can help restore movement to the joints, promoting proper posture and optimal biomechanics.
Enhancing Overall Health and Well-being
Chiropractic care may provide numerous benefits for older children and teenagers, including:
Reducing Ear Infections, Bed Wetting, Asthma, and Allergies: Regular adjustments can help improve your child's nervous and immune systems, reducing the frequency and severity of these common issues.
Encouraging Brain Development: Proper spinal alignment supports optimal brain function and development.
Improving Digestive Health: A well-functioning nervous system can enhance digestive processes, leading to better overall health.
Boosting the Immune System: Chiropractic care can strengthen your child's immune system, helping them get sick less often and recover more quickly when they do.
Promoting Proper Posture in the Digital Age
As children grow, their parents often worry about their posture, especially in today’s digital age where kids are frequently hunched over mobile phones, tablets, and computers. This can lead to forward head posture due to excessive device use. At The Mountains Chiropractic in Blackheath, NSW, Dr. Kate Slattery evaluates your child's posture and determines if they need help correcting it.
Holistic Wellness for a Brighter Future
Chiropractic care is a natural, drug-free way to promote overall health and wellness in infants and children. It has been well-researched and shown to be safe and effective at removing nervous system interference, allowing kids to grow, develop, and thrive. Our approach fills a vital gap in the current healthcare model by offering care that strengthens the body’s innate healing abilities, helping kids adapt more easily to the stresses of growing up.
At The Mountains Chiropractic, we’re proud to support the health of children, from newborns to teens. We’re here to help your child create optimal health from within by regulating the nervous system so they can thrive, not just survive.