Chiropractic Helps Children Who Suffer from Bed-Wetting

 

This white paper discusses the significance of the 1994 study published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics called “Chiropractic management of primary nocturnal enuresis.”

Bed-wetting is a struggle that plagues millions of children every year. Kids find it

embarrassing and parents can find it extremely frustrating. It wears mentally and emotionally on the kids while the parents are burdened with the extra workload of nightly sleep disturbances, more laundry, and restrictions on the ability to allow kids to go to sleepovers. Most bed-wetting during the night occurs because children do recognize their need to urinate. There are many known causes, some of them even due to underlying psycho-social challenges. But many of them involve a nervous system “recognition” problem. Without the proper recognition triggered in the brain, the body has no ability to “hold” their bladder until reaching the bathroom. This is why and how chiropractic care has helped so many kids struggling with bed-wetting. Improving movement and alignment of spinal vertebra can help children to better know when to urinate. Research revealed significant improvement for bed-wetting sufferers with chiropractic. Significant points of the study were as follows: 


➢ The purpose of this study was to evaluate chiropractic management of primary nocturnal enuresis in children. 
➢ This study was a controlled clinical trial for 10 weeks preceded by and followed by a 2-week non-treatment period. 
➢ Forty-six nocturnal enuretic children (31 treatment and 15 control group), from a group of 57 children initially included in the study, actually participated in the trial. 
➢ High velocity, short lever adjustments of the spine consistent with the palmer package techniques were utilized on the group receiving the adjustment. 
➢ For the control group, a sham adjustment was delivered using an Activator instrument at a non-tension setting administered to the examiner's underlying contact point. 
➢ Two 5th-year chiropractic students under the supervision of two clinic faculty performed the adjustments. 
➢ The main outcome measurement recorded was a measurement of wet nights. 
➢ The post-treatment mean wet night frequency of 7.6 nights every 2 weeks for the treatment group was significantly less than its baseline wet night frequency of 9.1 nights every 2 weeks. 
➢ For the control group, there was practically no change (12.1 to 12.2 nights/2 wk) in the mean wet night frequency from the baseline to the post-treatment. 
➢ Twenty-five percent of the treatment-group children had 50% or more reduction in the wet night frequency from baseline to post-treatment while none among the control group had such reduction.
➢ Results of the present study strongly suggest the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment for primary nocturnal enuresis. 


It is important to note that chiropractic is not about attempting to treat the bladder or specific bed-wetting problems. Instead, chiropractic focuses on improving the communication between the brain to the body by restoring proper spinal alignment and motion. Chiropractic spinal adjustments have become the missing link for many children who suffer from bed-wetting, easing the burden of embarrassment for the kids and reducing the workload and frustration for parents. A simple chiropractic evaluation and testing to detect and locate any areas of subluxation that could be influencing nocturnal enuresis could make the difference for so many children and their parents. Every child struggling with bed-wetting issues deserves to know about and experience the benefits that can be achieved through chiropractic care if they so choose. 

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Chiropractic Advocate January 2018