Can chiropractic help with bed wetting?

Question

My 12 year old daughter wet's the bed and I am wondering about chirapractic's to help this problem.

We have aready seen DR's and they can not finding any problems with her. They put her on med and we have tryed alarms. I don't like the idea haveing her take medication for a long time. Just wondering if there were any other options that our DR's did not know. I don't think DR's know everthing. It did take me a some time to give in to giving her medication. Any help would be great.

Answer 1

YES!!!

I know what you're thinking when you wonder how this can work. But it's easy to understand when you've done the research. I was in my internship when I experienced treating a child who wets the bed.

He was 8 and NEVER had a dry night. After just three adjustments of his sacrum (sometimes it's the middle back that's "out" ... in his case it was his sacrum, last bone in back) he came in and had great news to tell me! His mom and him had a great big smile and she said, "Son, tell Dr. Rice your news". He then told me that he hadn't wet the bed all weekend (it was Monday when he told me that). I couldn't beleve my ears and I thought at first they were joking.

Please give it a try. It's not always that Chiropractic works for this, but it's the most conservative choice of care if there is a bone out of place. You might ask how it works, and I'll give you a very baic summary.

In my patients case, his sacrum was subluxated (out of proper possition). The sacrum houses nerves that feed from the bladder to the RAS (Reticular Activating System) which is the area of the brain that is stimulated when we have to go to the bathroom. The RAS is reponsible for waking us up from sleep. If a subluxation causes the nerve to become entrapped or pinched, then the child will not wake up when his bladder is full - and the bladder will empty.

Other things to try: Elimination of ALL dairy. A lot of children are allergic to milk and don't know. Removal of Dairy will sometimes help with that.

Also, re: someone's comment on doctors of chiropractic not beng doctors - we always are doctors. there are medical doctors, there are pediatric doctors and there are certainly 80,000 chiropractic doctors. and we go to school for 8 years and we're not bone doctors and we're not glorified massage therapists. anything said to the contrary is said in pure ignorance.

Answer 2

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Can chiropractic help with bed wetting?
My 12 year old daughter wet's the bed and I am wondering about chirapractic's to help this problem.

Answer 3

Chiropractic And Bedwetting

Answer 4

no, and children this young should not go to a Chiropractor unless she is injured and her pediatrican tells you to. Her bones are still growing and you could do damage to them. some children wet the bed out of fear of something, like maybe a bully at school, or a mean teacher, or someone abusing her. ( not meaning you, just anyone in general) Also could be a bladder problem, I have kidney and bladder problems and had bed wetting issues. Talk to her doctor and have some tests run.

Answer 5

yes.

The traditional chiropractic approach to treating the child who is a bed-wetter is to adjust the spine, usually in the area of the lumbar spine or sacrum. A review of the anatomy and physiology of the bladder may help us understand why these areas are chosen as the prime target.

Bladder Anatomy and Physiology
Emptying of the urinary bladder is controlled by the detrusor and trigone muscles. The nerve supply to these muscles is via the sacral parasympathetic nerves from S2 to S4.

Appropriate bladder function is also controlled by the urogenital diaphragm which derives its nerve supply from the L2 spinal nerve.

Development of the Sacrum
The sacrum (or tailbone) develops as five separate segments. These segments remain separated until a child reaches puberty, at which time fusion of one sacral segment to another commences. Eventually, the sacrum will be one single bone with all five segments fused together, but this does not occur until the mid-20s.

Because the sacrum consists of separate segments during the early years of life, it is possible that misalignment of these segments can cause nerve irritation or facilitation. This nerve facilitation, especially to the area of the bladder, may be the cause of the inappropriate bladder function associated with bed-wetting.

As we have seen, the developing sacrum in the early childhood years remains highly mobile, existing as separate spinal segments. During this period, the sacrum can be subjected to repeated trauma from childhood falls and the early attempts at walking. This early trauma to the sacrum may be the major reason why bed-wetting in some patients ceases after the spine is adjusted.

Is the Spine the Cause of all Enuresis?

Adjustment of the sacral segments in the bed-wetter has an anecdotal history of effectiveness throughout the years. Recent studies, however, would appear to disagree with such claims. One such study from Australia1 concluded that spinal adjusting offered little help for enuresis, while another study2 suggested that good results could be obtained. This apparent disagreement may suggest nothing more than bed-wetting is due to several causes, one of which is spine related. Children with a spinal cause respond while those with other causes of bed-wetting do not.

The conclusion would therefore appear to be to have all children who are bed-wetters evaluated for the possibility of spinal problems as the underlying cause.


this is why chiropractic helps every problem- if your spine is out of alignment- your nerves don't get the correct messages between your brain and your organs- they get 'messed up' so to speak- and then you get symptoms/problems with the organs.. if your spine is in alignment- the messages have nothing blocking or distorting them.. and all systems go.

Answer 6

What does a chirOpractor have to do with the bladder? A chiropractor is a doctor (sometimes) who deals in bones, muscles and joints...the bladder is an internal organ, not a bone, not a muscle not a joint. She needs to be seen by the family physician and possibly referred to another doctor who can determine why she is wetting the bed, it could be a kidney problem. Not a bone, muscle or joint problem...

Answer 7

NO....and you should never allow a chiropractor to touch your child. Legitimate one's won't b/c their bones & muscles are still developing and manipulations can damage this process.

You'd do best to speak with your pediatrician, there could be something medically wrong, psychologically or physiologically.

Answer 8

i would go to the doctor and put her on a bed alarm or a monitor. some meds are good for that too.
if you cracked her knuckles would that help? stick to a regular doctor.

Answer 9

she needs to see a medical doctor first. the doctor must rule out any cause of the enuresis -infection, cancer, anatomy. she must be checked for sexual abuse and other stressors. don't let her continue like this. call the doctor ASAP.

Answer 10

DEAR
ONE WORD NO THEY CAN NOT OK
TAKE CARE ONLY A DOCTOR CAN SEND YOU TO SOME ONE