Say Good-bye to Ear Aches

Ear Aches are the Number One Reason Children Go to the Doctor

Take control of chronic childhood ear infections   

Say "Good-Bye" to ear aches with safe & effective techniques at Health By Hands!

Nothing is worse than a middle ear infection, no matter how old you are. The pain can bring a grown man to his knees. The technical term for an ear ache is otitis media.

Ear aches are the number one reason for childhood visits to a pediatrician's office.

What is really difficult is when your infant cannot tell you what is wrong, when they are up all night crying or constantly crying through out the day, your intuition says it might be a middle ear infection. The statistics would suggest that your hunch is probably right.  

As a parent, you may be surprised to learn that both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academy of Family Physicians recommend a "watchful waiting" or "wait and see" approach to acute ear infections.  

Research published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association demonstrated that there was no difference in fever, otalgia (pain) or number of future visits between kids that were given an antibiotic prescription and those that were not. As it turns out, antibiotics only outperform the body's own immune system in a handful of cases.

Remarkable results with chiropractic care
Numerous studies of manipulative therapies, including chiropractic care, have shown remarkable results without the side effects of antibiotics.

A groundbreaking 1997 study of 332 kids ages 27 days to 5 years indicted a strong correlation between chiropractic adjustment and the resolution of otitis media (middle ear ache).  

Just to highlight one finding - there were 104 kids in the group classified as having 'chronic' otitis media. This group of kids got 5 chiropractic adjustments each. Across the next six months the recurrence rate among this group was only 16%!

Let's put that data into more human terms. That means that 84% of these kids classified as having chronic ear infections went six months without having another one after just 5 adjustments. A full half year devoid of screaming in the middle of the night, lost sleep and anguish of watching your child suffer for 84% of the parents.

Spiro DM, Tay K, Arnold DH, et al. Wait-and-see prescription for the treatment of acute otitis media: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 2006; 296(10): 1235-1241.

Fallon, JM. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics Vol 2, No. 2 1997 p.167-183.