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| 'Dr. Clark's Success With Autistic Children' |
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Article featured in the Manchester Evening News 13th August 2007 |
| 'Here's hands-on-hope for Daniel' |
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A Chiropractor is commonly called upon to treat back or neck pain in adults. But the effect of the treatment on the nervous system is now being harnessed to help other conditions, including autism. |
Every month, Susan Crisp takes her eight-year old son, Daniel, for a 15-minute Chiropractic treatment at Dynamic Chiropractic. Daniel has autism and Susan and her husband, Gary, firmly believe that this complementary therapy has been key to the recent improvements they’ve seen in his development. ‘His communication has improved tremendously,’ says Susan. |
‘He has started putting three or four words together and it is not in response to questions from us. It’s spontaneous. At one time, if he wanted something out of the fridge he would drag me to it and point. Now he’ll say, ‘Mummy, I want.’ |
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‘He doesn’t seem so closed in as he once was and is interacting more with this three older sisters.’ |
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Susan took Daniel to see Chiropractor Doug Clark at Dynamic Chiropractic in Sale. Chiropractic is a complementary therapy used to treat problems with joints, bones and muscles and the effects these have on the nervous system. |
This is done by a Chiropractor, using their hands to make often gentle, specific adjustments to joints, concentrating particularly on the spine to improve the nervous system. |
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Doug explains, ‘Daniel demonstrated quite striking spinal stiffness both in the left side of his lower back and his upper neck. From a Chiropractic point of view, spinal movement problems, typically at the top of the neck may contribute to distorted nerve function in the central nervous system. Typically the left side of the upper neck communicates with the right side of the frontal brain and with the parts of the brain cortex that is involved with speech and language and co-ordination of movement.’ |
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