Wishing Well Natural Health Clinic, Woking GU22 9PP

Ear, Sinus and Chest Infections

Recurrent ear and chest infections can be affected by untreated compression in the child's head still present from birth. Ear problems respond well to the cranial treatment as drainage is re-established. Sinus problems and chest infections also respond well once the venous drainage and sinus drainage is improved by treatment.

OTITIS MEDIA: Try osteopathy before grommets.(Source: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2003; 157: 861-66).
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Unfortunately, offers only a short-lived reprieve, if any, and the child may sometimes have to undergo surgery to have grommets inserted if the problem keeps recurring. This is traumatic for the child and parents, so both will be interested in a study that discovered osteopathy offers a long-term solution. Children who had three or four episodes of otitis media in the previous year were either assigned to routine care (mainly antibiotics) or to routine care plus osteopathy. Those in the Osteopathy group needed less medical care and suffered fewer attacks than those just receiving standard treatment.