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PORTLAND, OREGON CHIROPRACTOR

YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH: GENTLE, NON-FORCE CHIROPRACTIC CARE AND CRANIAL THERAPY FOR CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND INFANTS

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For over 20 years, Dr. Arn Strasser has made treating Children, Adolescents and infants a central part of his practice. He provides non-force and gentle approaches to care that are especially appropriate in treating your child. Dr. Strasser emphasizes pain relief while addressing the mechanical causes of injuries. Traditional approaches which minimize childhood injuries and provide only drug treatments fail to treat underlying imbalances that may make your child more vulnerable to future problems.

Children often respond quickly to gentle Chiropractic care and require minimal treatment plans.

In examining and diagnosing children, Dr. Strasser emphasizes looking at the whole child. He places his physical findings in the context of the child as a whole person. Nutrition, stress factors, and metabolic indicators are correlated with chiropractic findings to help in understanding the root causes of your child's symptoms.

Cranial Therapy is an approach that is especially relevant to mechanical, neurological, emotional and nutritional imbalances in children, adolescents and infants. Dr. Strasser provides a gentle, integrated Cranial Therapy that combines Cranial-Sacral (Craniosacral) technique, Chiropractic and Osteopathic craniapathy, and European techniques. This is a unique, active approach that Dr. Strasser has found to be more effective than just using Cranial-Sacral (Craniosacral).

Cranial Therapy primarily involves extremely gentle contact and gentle moving of the cranium and neck, with additional gentle touch to the sacral region and abdomen. Like the spine, the cranium (the head) is an often powerful entrance into the body's Central Nervous System (CNS).

Non-organic (non-disease) imbalances and stress patterns in the CNS can contribute to a wide range of symptoms in children, adolescents and infants. Infants exhibit hyperirritability, colic, lowered resistence with allergies and colds, and non-organic difficulty thriving can be helped with Cranial Therapay.

Children and adolescents with ADD/ADHD, difficulty focusing, anger problems, hyperirritability, depression, eating problems, chronic headaches and Migraine, chronic stress, and chronic pain are candidates for Cranial Therapy.

Dr. Strasser offers speciality care for children, adolescents and infants:

  • Neck and Low Back pain with restricted motion, from accidents or long-standing chronic conditions, are treated with gentle and non-force Chiropractic manipulation, traditional Osteopathic and Chiropractic manual techniques, and soft-tissue therapies. Dr. Strasser is trained in many different approaches to treating the spine and tailors his treatments to the individual needs of each child. He provides researched techniques and individualized solution-oriented care.

  • Headache and Migraine in children and adolescents are treated with drugless, comprehensive protocols that include non-force Chiropractic care, Cranial Therapy, Nutrition and Stress-reduction techniques. Dr. Strasser is a professional member of the International Headache Society. Headaches can be important signals from the body and are carefully evaluated by Dr. Strasser prior to developing an individualized treatment plan for your child

  • Sports, School and Extremity Injuries and pain are treated with gentle Chiropractic extremity techniques, manual therapies, instrument-assisted soft tissue care, strain-counterstrain, and physical therapies. Joint care is an important component of Dr. Strasser's practice. Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand pain and injuries, and hip, knee, ankle and foot conditions are treated with techniques that speed recovery and treat underlying mechanical disturbances. Dr. Strasser views extremity problems in the context of the body's structure as a whole.

  • ADD/ADHD, attention and focusing problems,hyperirritability and learning are treated with gentle Cranial Therapy, non-force Chiropractic, and botanical therapy. Dr, Strasser provides a drugless alternative to medical management. Cranial Therapy is a gentle means to intitiate a relaxation response in the nervous system and helps children reduce stress and increase neurological flexibility. Dr. Strasser recommends botantical remedies and supplements to augment care. He recommends referral for psychological therapy to provide tools for the ADD/ADHD child to better cope with school and relationships.

  • Children with Autism, Seizure disorders and other neurological disorders can be helped with gentle Cranial Therapy. Dr. Strasser has found that Cranial Therapy can help reduce stress and can be a component of a multi-dimensional treatment program involving many different approaches and health professionals.

    • Your questions regarding Dr. Strasser's Care for Children, and non-force and gentle Chiropractic Care and Cranial Therapy are always welcome.

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