TikTok chiropractors are adjusting babies. Pediatricians say the “adjustments” aren’t backed by science.
seemed to cry less, the findings weren’t statistically meaningful, even after a follow-up analysis of just babies with musculosketal problems. “That was a surprise to us,” Hestbaek said.found that babies given “light touch manual therapy” cried significantly less than those who received no treatment. But unlike in the Danish study, parents in the Spanish study weren’t “blinded,” meaning they were aware of the treatment, which can bias the results.
Hestbaek said she continues to advise parents to visit a chiropractor who specializes in treating small children. “You owe it to the baby to try,” she said. Joy Weydert, the director of pediatric integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, said it can be challenging “to get that level of evidence” for manual therapies such as chiropractic care. She said the treatments may help relieve the discomfort of colic or reflux, but it’s difficult to measure.“Conventional medicine has to evolve to understand what chiropractic is all about,” Weydert said.
Parents who take their babies to chiropractors are believers. A 2019 article in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reported on 2,000 mothers in the United Kingdom who took their infants to a chiropractic clinic for a range of problems, including feeding concerns, sleep issues and excessive crying. While the study didn’t measure whether the treatments worked,Kassandra Borba, 33, a mortgage loan officer who lives in Chowchilla, Calif.
Judd, the Corsicana chiropractor, said his focus is to make sure babies have free, comfortable movement. He said insurance companies don’t cover his treatments for children, so parents pay out of pocket. If his treatments weren’t working, he said, people wouldn’t spend the money.Michael Milobsky, a pediatrician with a primary care practice in Castle Rock, Colo., and a father of seven, said he understands why parents would “literally do anything” to alleviate their children’s colicky symptoms.
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