MAUD NERMAN DO CSPOMM

Osteopathic Physician and Classical Homeopath
TREATING CHILDREN
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Osteopathic treatment can provide dramatic results when children suffer from asthma, chronic ear infections, recurrent sore throats, sinus problems, and headaches. By treating the rib cage and freeing up the motion of the chest, as well as improving diaphramtic breathing, osteopathy often stops an asthma attack and can help prevent future attacks. Ear infections often resolve once the temporal bones move freely, a bit like the gills of a fish. They pump the eustacian tubes and help drain the mucous in the ears, resolving infections and help preventing future infections. Serious problems like cerebral palsy, ADD, learning disabilities and autism are often significantly helped by cranial osteopathic care.

“Dr. Nerman has been working with our 2-year-old daughter for nearly one year, and in that time we have seen great progress in her as she learns to walk, which we feel is attributable in part to the cranial osteopathy and homeopathy with Dr. Nerman. After only a few sessions with Dr. Nerman, even our daughter’s OT remarked that things were so difference since the sessions with Dr. Nerman, that she was now a believer in this work! I’d also like to add that Dr. Nerman is a kind and gentle person, who truly supports us in our journey and encourages us in such a way that I always leave her office feeling uplifted and good about myself as a mother, and our daughter’s potential to walk.”

SUCKLING PROBLEMS, COLIC, ABDOMINAL DISTRESS: INFANTS CAN BENEFIT FROM CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY
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Osteopathic medicine dramatically addresses many pediatric problems. Infants suffering from colic, sleeping problems, spitting up and difficulty in sucking often gain complete relief after 2-4 osteopathic cranial treatments.

The birth process can distort one of the 23 bones of the skull and thereby compress or squeeze critical nerves. Compression of the occiput at the back of the skull can impinge on the hypoglossal nerve to the tongue, causing suckling problems.

Similarly, compression either on the occiput or temporal bone can squeeze the vagus nerve and cause coli and abdominal distress. When gentle precise cranial osteopathy removes the restrictions, colic and suckling problems resolve. Of course, there can be other problems like tone tie that can contribute, and we look for that issue as well.