Osteopath for newborns: how neonatal osteopathy works and what can be useful for
The osteopath for newborns can be a real cure-all! From the first months of life, infants could suffer from common problems such as sleep disturbances, otitis or difficulty in sucking: a specialist, thanks to an osteopathic manipulative treatment, can obtain excellent results by massaging your baby's skull. Discover with us how neonatal osteopathy works and what can be useful! Meanwhile, here's a video on how to prevent colic:
Osteopath for babies: how it works and what it can be useful for
A newborn osteopath is able to solve a number of baby problems in his or her first months. Often the newborn during birth - especially if the birth in question was particularly long and difficult - could have suffered trauma.
It is above all the bones of the baby's head, after having deformed passing through the birth canal, which frequently undergo this kind of trauma, which gives rise to different types of "plagiocephaly", or deformations of the skull itself due to external forces. When the babies come to light they could then show the signs of childbirth with evident compressions, which at birth is still soft. In other cases, the deformations can result from the child assuming an incorrect posture, for example during sleep.
By subjecting the child to an osteopathic manipulative treatment (a gentle and non-invasive technique), a specialist may be able to correct the positioning of the bones from the first days of life. In the first months, however, neonatal osteopathy can also be useful for other problems such as gastroesophageal reflux, sleep, disturbed, colic and otitis.
Obviously it will always be good to contact your pediatrician for advice on a possible osteopathic treatment. Consequently, it will be the pediatrician himself who can recommend a specialist to contact for your baby.
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Neonatal osteopathy to solve otitis and sleep problems
As we have anticipated, this type of treatment can be useful for various problems of the child, starting from "otitis. If the newborn has earache, the explanation could be linked to a trauma of the bones and tissues of the skull. The" osteopath , through a light manipulation of the baby's head, he will be able to re-establish the mobility of the tissues and restore proper drainage to prevent the phlegm from stagnating, avoiding ear infections. This osteopathic manipulative treatment generally lasts for a single cycle of six sessions.
Even sleep disorders can be treated with osteopathy. Often babies cannot sleep well because they feel excessive pressure on the bones of the skull, which generally depends on trauma suffered during birth. When the baby is lying down, he feels very this "crushing" is more intense and he proves restless.
A gentle and non-invasive manipulation of the skull by the specialist allows to relieve tension and make the newborn less agitated during sleep. How? With really light massages, whose pressure never exceeds 5 grams.
Turn to osteopathy for problems with colic and gastroesophageal reflux
The osteopath for babies also helps to solve problems of regurgitation and colic related to irritation of the vagus nerve. Osteopathy allows, through a slight pressure at the base of the head, to free the vagus nerve from the compression of the bones of the skull, freeing the child from these problems within five or six sessions.
In the event that the newborn has problems relating to breastfeeding and, in particular, difficulty in sucking, the reason could lie in a compression at the base of the skull that occurred during birth. In this case, it is not the functioning of the vagus nerve that is compromised, but of the hypoglossal and glosso-pharyngeal nerve. Osteopathic manipulation could solve this problem as well.
