Background: A two year old male was presented for Chiropractic care by his mother with chief complaints of delayed speech, generalised low postural tone, persistent primitive reflexes, emotional dysregulation, and general fussiness.
Intervention: The patient received a short course of Chiropractic care, with all interventions modified to be age appropriate. This included diversified, drop-piece, and activator-assisted spinal and pelvic adjustments, cranial releasing techniques, soft tissue work, and a prescribed home exercise programme targeting left-body stimulation, proprioceptive joint distraction, and gross motor activation.
Outcomes: The patient’s mother noted fast and notable improvements in social engagement, speech, imaginative play, emotional regulation and gross motor competence, alongside the chiropractors observation of improvements in objective findings. The patients health index also rose from 58/100 to 82/100 (within the target range) over the course of care.
Conclusion: This case demonstrates an association between subluxation-based Chiropractic care and rapid improvement in speech, neurodevelopment, and emotional regulation in a two-year-old male with persistent primitive reflexes. This is consistent with the core Chiropractic paradigm, wherein subluxation may impact developmental maturation, and that Chiropractic care may facilitate improved nervous system function.
Author keywords: Chiropractic; Subluxation; paediatrics; delayed speech; primitive reflexes; emotional dysregulation.
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