The study will contribute to determine the effect of chiropractic treatment on infantile colic in an area where limited evidence exists.
Colic babies and chiropractic care.
The evidence suggests that chiropractic has no benefit over placebo in the treatment of infantile colic.
There is a treatment though that has given many parents hope and brought relief to their little ones.
The findings showed that knowledge of treatment by the parent did not appear to contribute to the observed treatment effects in this study.
A randomized controlled trial was designed to evaluate the effect of chiropractic treatment on infantile colic.
There s evidence that baby chiropractic adjustments significantly improve colic symptoms.
Colic and chiropractic treatment if you have a colicky baby and other forms of treatment don t seem to be helping very much you may want to investigate taking your baby to a chiropractor.
In the study fully 94 percent of the subjects experienced improved colic symptoms.
Furthermore the study aims to explore if subgroups of children with suspected musculoskeletal problems will benefit more from the intervention than others.
Colic is a frustrating problem for many parents of newborn babies.
Chiropractic care is used increasingly in treatment of infants including for infantile colic although the evidence worldwide is sparse.
In this study chiropractic manual therapy improved crying behavior in infants with colic.
Colic can leave parents feeling helpless.
Both infants and their parents reap the benefits because when baby is happy mom and dad are happy.
Chiropractic adjustment of colicky babies involves only gentle sustained pressure to particular areas of the spine with one finger.
Thus it is unlikely that observed treatment effect is due to bias on the part of the reporting parent.
However there is good evidence that taking a colicky infant to a chiropractor will result in fewer reported hours of colic by the parents.
Chiropractic is an effective treatment for colic that is drug free and gentle.