Chiropractic Pediatrics: A Clinical Handbook Book

Chiropractic in the pediatric field. The pediatric history. The pediatric physical examination. Recognizing the seriously ill child. The irritable baby syndrome. Abdominal pain and altered states of bowel motility. Pediatric neurology. Developmental assessment, neuromaturational delay and school learning difficulties. Common infectious diseases of childhood. Common respiratory illness in childhood. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Chiropractic management of common ear, nose and throat disease. The enuretic child. Common orthopedic syndromes in childhood. Autism. Non-accidental injury and child maltreatment. Cancer in children. Allergy, endocrine and metabolic disease in childhood. Rheumatic diseasesin children. Pain assessment and management. Assessment of the chiropractic subluxation in children. Toggle recoil adjusting. Adjusting the cervical spine. Adjusting the thoracic spine. Adjusting the lumbar spine and pelvis. Adjusting children using the Logan Basic system. Assessment and correction of subluxation of the extremities. Cranial treatment of children. Anthropometric percentile charts. Adult head circumference percentiles. Varni/Thompson Pediatric Pain Questionnaires.