Background: Three children, aged 6, 4 and 2, presented with constipation. These children were from different families, at different ages, and on different base diets.
Intervention: All three patients commenced Chiropractic care under the hands of a single Chiropractor who checked and adjusted them according to a low-force adjustment protocol including Activator™ methods.
Outcomes: Parents across all cases reported that improved bowel control was associated with increased confidence, reduced social anxiety, and improved family quality of life.
Conclusion: Given the prevalence of constipation in the wider community, and the simplicity of the care plan before resolution of symptoms occurred, larger studies investigating Chiropractic care in children, and especially lumbopelvic function as it pertains to encopresis, enuresis and constipation, is warranted.
Author keywords: Chiropractic; Subluxation; paediatrics; encopresis; enuresis; constipation.
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