12/08/2025
Pediatric chiropractic care is a gentle, natural, and effective way to support children as they grow. Whether your child is an infant, toddler, or teen, chiropractic adjustments and holistic wellness strategies can help improve function, relieve discomfort, and promote overall well-being without the use of medication or surgery.
Dr. Vilkelis uses age-appropriate adjustment techniques, soft tissue therapies, and lifestyle guidance to support healthy development. Chiropractors also work with other health care providers to support your child’s overall health.
Here are 10 ways chiropractic care can support your child’s health and development.
1. Support spinal growth and development
Proper spinal alignment is essential for healthy growth and nervous system function. Pediatric chiropractors help ensure your child’s spine develops correctly, reducing the risk of future issues.
2. Guidance on healthy habits
Chiropractors may offer guidance on nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, and posture.
3. Neuromuscular checks following birth
Early evaluation can address birth-related stress or tension, helping with smoother nursing and better quality of sleep.
4. Soothing colic and better latching
Chiropractic care can help soothe colic by gently improving spinal and nervous system function, which may reduce crying and discomfort, while also enhancing latching by relieving tension in the neck and jaw for more effective feeding.
5. Boost athletic performance and recovery
Chiropractic care can enhance performance, reduce the risk of injury and support faster recovery from sprains or strains in active kids and young athletes.
6. Sports rehab. Injury care for falls, sports injuries, car accidents, concussions and more. Accidents can happen anytime. Dr. Vilkelis provides non-invasive care after a playground fall, injury or car accident including stretching and soft tissue therapy, age-appropriate exercises and the neurological reintegration that your child needs to get healthy and functioning at optimal levels.
7. Natural pain relief
Chiropractic care offers drug-free relief from common childhood complaints such as neck, back, leg and arm pain.
8. Support digestive health
Adjustments may help relieve common concerns like constipation, digestion, bed-wetting, and more by improving nervous system function.
9. Relief from asthma, allergies, headaches and ear infections
Chiropractic care can provide relief from asthma, allergies, headaches, and ear infections by improving nervous system function, reducing spinal misalignments that affect respiratory and immune system communication, relieving nerve tension, enhancing lung capacity, and breathing, and promoting better drainage of the eustachian tubes to alleviate ear infections.
10. Support for behavioral and emotional concerns
Chiropractic care supports behavior and emotional concerns by improving nervous system function, which helps regulate stress response, enhances brain-body communication, reduces nervous system dysregulation, and promotes emotional balance, leading to better impulse control, reduced anxiety, improved mood, and overall mental well-being.
