By Dr. Angela Cherniawski on
5/19/2008 2:21 PM
The most common reason children visit their pediatricians is for treatment of ear infections, resulting in 24 million office visits a year, or 35% of all visits. Many of these children are prescribed antibiotics.
Recent research has shown that chiropractic can prevent the necessity of either antibiotic use or ear tubes. Dr. Joan Fallon, a chiropractor who practices in Yonkers, New York, has published research showing that, after receiving a series of chiropractic adjustments, nearly 80% of the children treated were free of ear infections for at least the six-month period following their initial visits (a period that also included maintenance treatments every four to six weeks)....
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