Dr. Barbara Newlon, Pediatric Osteopathy

Dr. Barbara Newlon, Osteopathic Physician specializing in Pediatric Osteopathy

Topics related to
Pediatric Osteopathy and Osteopathy:

Children's Health /
Alternative Pediatric Care

pediatric osteopathy session

Motion is one key word that defines what life is. If the body's structure does not move there is poor health. There is the voluntary motion of bones, ligaments, and tendons. There are also many levels of involuntary motion in the body:   movement of fluids, (lymph, blood and cerebrospinal fluid, interstial fluid. intracellular fluid), and organ motion. All of the body's organs move, including motion of the brain, spinal cord, liver,, spleen, kidneys, pancreas, and of course heart, lung, and intestines. And there is movement of the coverings around these organs and the connecting tissue that lines the body's cavities (abdominal and thoracic and brain and spinal cord.)

Manipulative Osteopathic Medicine incorporating the treatment of the cranial/sacral mechanism, is thought of today as Alternative Health Care and in pediatrics, Alternative Pediatric Care. Manual manipulation of bones, soft tissue, and organs restores healthy motion and allows proper flow of blood, nerve, and lymph fluids to and from organ systems, allowing the body's self healing mechanism to come forth.

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pediatric cranial sacral osteopathy session

Alternative Pediatric Practice

During birth, pressures on the head and spine of a newborn can be tremendous, and can leave permanent torsion and compression patterns in the body, unless released by a trained cranial sacral osteopath. Nerves exiting the base of the head and sacrum and spine are impinged and therefore don't function well. There can be minor dislocations of hip bones, shoulders, vertebrae, and cranial bones causing pain and dysfunction. What you see in a comprised baby is constant crying, colic, spitting up, reflux, misshapen head, inability to suck, constipation, poor weight gain, delay in development, adnormal crawl pattern, torticollis, and palsies. Later in life, as the child grows, you see scoliosis, sleep disorders, chronic ear infections, learning disabilities, immune system dysfunction manifesting as frequent colds, coughs or asthma, headaches, hip and back pain, speech disorders.

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Releasing the bones, ligaments, membranes around the brain and spinal cord and other organs allows the body to heal itself. Diet and homeopathy are utilized as well when needed to deepen a healing process.

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Children's Holistic Health /
Children's Integrative Medicine

Today, only one branch of mainstream medicine focuses on the patient in his or her entirety, instead of concentrating on a single diseased organ or specific painful condition. This science is called Osteopathy.

Osteopathy focuses on the principle that the body has the capacity to resist disease and heal itself.

The Osteopathic Degree (D.O.) is equal to the M.D. Degree in the United States. Osteopathic physicians use all of the recognized procedures and modern technologies, such as drugs, surgery, MRI, CT Scan, etc., but they also use their hands to diagnose areas of restricted motion in the body; release these areas; and therefore allow the immune system, endocrine system, blood flow, cerebrospinal fluid flow, and organ function to reach it's maximum potential.

pediatric cranial sacral osteopathy session

Dr. Newlon is licensed as a family physician in the U.S. And utilizes all diagnostic procedures available including use of her hands in palpation and release of restricted motion. She also advised on diet and exercise and prescribes homeopathic medication to deepen a healing process. Therefore, her practice is one of the best holistic health practices and / or integrative health practices available today.

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