Ear Infections + Chiropractic
Have you ever heard one of your friends and family talk about taking one of their kiddos to a Chiropractor for ear infections? Maybe you thought they were a little weird too? Well we're here to break the stigma on ear infections and being on what probably seems like a constant bout with antibiotics and recurring illness with these kiddos. Let's address the causative factor in many of these recurring ear infection cases. When we are in our infantile and toddler stage of life our Eustachian tubes are oriented in a horizontal manner and as we grow and develop they become slightly more vertical and able to drain fluid more efficiently/effectively. So from the get go, the orientation of our kiddos Eustachian tubes promote stagnation of fluid. What typically happens is first they get the sniffles, and the next thing we know we have a double inner ear infection. So whats another component...? surrounding our Eustachian tubes we have a muscle called the Tensor Veli Palatini that act