Therapies
Pediatric Osteopathy
Pediatric osteopathy is a therapeutic discipline that, through gentle and precise manual techniques, seeks to balance and improve the bodily function of babies and children from birth. This therapy is especially suitable for the little ones due to the delicacy of its manipulations and its ability to stimulate the body’s own health resources.
During the birth process, babies may experience tensions and compressions that, if left unresolved, could affect their development and well-being. Pediatric osteopathy addresses these dysfunctions, facilitating harmonious growth and preventing potential future complications.
By treating the child as an integral unit, pediatric osteopathy not only focuses on relieving symptoms, but also on identifying and correcting the underlying causes of dysfunctions, promoting healthy and balanced development from the earliest stages of life.
Various birth “setbacks” can make a delivery less than natural and easy:
- Use of forceps or a vacuum to extract the baby.
- The cord being wrapped around the baby’s neck.
- The baby being in a position other than normal (breech, with one arm, etc.)
- Delivery by cesarean section.
- The epidural prevents the mother from directing the contractions.
- The mother’s psychological problems, etc.
The newborn’s skull should be examined, and our examination and that of the pediatrician are complementary.
Symptoms
Sometimes they are children who present asymmetries in the shape of their head and/or in the movement of their arms and legs, who take a long time to suck when eating, who cry excessively, are overly sensitive to any stimulus, regurgitate frequently, vomit, have constipation and gas, have breathing difficulties, strabismus and hearing problems, loss of appetite, gastric problems, torticollis, scoliosis (a deviation of the spine), slow or irregular development, insomnia…
Other times the symptoms appear when the child starts going to school: hyperactivity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, dyslexia…
Benefits for the newborn
- Helps with sleep
- Promotes sucking and swallowing
- Reduces hiccups, gas, and colic in infants
- Improves baby’s vitality and motor skills
- Prevents ear infections
- Whenever the baby’s head is on the same side
- When the baby takes a long time to breastfeed, it is difficult for the baby to suck
- Arches the body backward when being picked up or breastfeeding
A Craniosacral Therapist should always be consulted when a baby presents with the following conditions:
- False contractions (several days) before actual labor
- Premature rupture of the water or perforation of the membrane
- Medical induction or augmentation of labor
- Presentation of the baby in a position other than head down
- Very prolonged labor (more than 18 hours) or very rapid labor (less than 3 hours)
- Epidural anesthesia
- Forceps or vacuum extraction
- Cord coiled one or more times
- Severe slowing of the baby’s heart rate
- Period of uterine inertia: contractions stopped or slowed down
- Caesarean section. Multiple births, premature babies
- Cephalic asymmetries (Brachycephaly, Plagiocephaly, etc.).
