Learning Disorders

      Current statistics indicate that eight million school children in the US have a learning impairment, which can be traced back to some sort of malfunction in the nerve system.

Learning Disorders Impair Children and Parents Emotionally

      When children have trouble learning, their frustration adversely affects their relationship with everyone around them— parents, siblings, teachers, and schoolmates.

Often, when a child develops a self-esteem problem, he or she is prone to emotional problems and psychological impairments that may carry-on to adulthood.

      When children are hyperactive, due to emotional problems, medical treatment often includes medication such as the drug Ritalin, which has severe side effects. Ritalin doesn't always work and it does more harm than good.

      Recently, the Director of Psychoeducational and Guidance Services of College Station, Texas, noted that our of 10,000 hyperactive children referred to him in the preceding decade, those who showed the most improvement had received chiropractic care. This caused the organization to refer some students to chiropractors for adjustments so they could monitor the effect of the care. Out of 24 students who had learning impairment, 12 received chiropractic care and the remaining students either received medication or no treatment at all.

The study concluded that chiropractic was 20 to 40% more effective than the better known medications. Because students who are seriously afflicted seem to benefit so well from chiropractic, it seems inescapably logical that a "normal" child would benefit as well. It follows that chiropractic care can help an average student become above average. Perhaps a child's I.Q. can be raised— reading skills improved, etc. as well as being given an edge alertness, coordination, and speech.

"Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

D.D. Palmer