Raising Bipolar

A few weeks back a mom emailed me regarding her daughter who had been diagnosed as a young girl with bipolar disorder.  Her daughter is now grown but through a series of emails she shared with me a bit of history about her daughter’s struggles when she was younger with school and moods and their subsequent journey to heal her naturally.  Although I was fascinated with the information, I was a little overloaded at the time with our change to homeschooling and could not fully process the information.  Now I am adjusted to our schedule and am going back and looking deeper into the information she sent me.  She sent me some great information about thyroid function, vitamin processing (or lack thereof), nutrition and chiropractic treatment.   In the last email we exchanged she told me that her daughter felt one of the best things she did to help herself was upper cervical chiropractic adjustments.  So, I started researching this a bit.  Could this help Rye as well?

Here are some of the links and examples I found that say maybe yes:

Female, Age 8 years, Bipolar Disorder

At her evaluation, an upper neck injury was discovered. Her parents recalled that she fell out of her bed at age 2 and surmised that perhaps that fall was the source of their child’s neck injury. After undergoing the first upper cervical adjustment, no further adjustments were necessary as her neck healed and stabilized. In the first month, her parents reported some improvement in her condition but that her mood still fluctuated quite extensively. By the third month, her parents reported a substantial improvement in her mood in that she could easily handle situations that previously had set off episodes of mania, such as birthday parties, sleepovers, etc. In addition, they reported that she had also experienced improvement in her motor developement in that balance and coordination had also dramatically improved.

http://www.erinelster.com/CaseStudies.aspx?ConditionID=4

After 1 month of care, the patient reported an absence of seizures and manic episodes and improved sleep patterns. After 4 months of care, seizures and manic episodes remained absent and migraine headaches were reduced from 3 per week to 2 per month. After 7 months of care, the patient reported the complete absence of symptoms. Eighteen months later, the patient remains asymptomatic. CONCLUSION: The onset of the symptoms following the patient’s accident, the immediate reduction in symptoms correlating with the initiation of care, and the complete absence of all symptoms within 7 months of care suggest a link between the patient’s headfirst fall, the upper cervical subluxation, and his neurological conditions. Further investigation into upper cervical trauma as a contributing factor to bipolar disorder, sleep disorder, seizure disorder, and migraine headaches should be pursued.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15129207

Cases regarding epilepsy and add/adhd and autism.

http://www.839-7171.com/index.php?p=72138

http://www.839-7171.com/index.php?p=72134

Son with ADHD & Bipolar

My son Christian was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 3. His behavior was very different from his twin sisters in that he was very hyperactive, impulsive, irritable, and was not able to focus. I had been bringing him to Goldsboro Pediatrics and was then referred to Greenville Psychiatrists. He was prescribed numerous medications such as Clonidine, Trileptal, Concerta, Abilifi and several therapists, including speech and behavioral. The edications seemed to help for a short time but the problems would return.

http://www.chiropracticadv.com/adhd-bipolar.html

Various case studies regarding upper c spine adjustments helping a variety of situations and symptoms.

http://www.upcspine.com/

Now, I am not saying this is going to work for us.  But there is obviously evidence that is helps some people.  And, as luck in on our side with this one, Don has a good friend who is a very successful chiropractor and we spoke with him about this type of treatment and he is going to research the specifics of it and try and help us. So we are seeking his help on this and start this week.

Who knows?  We may be one of people helped by this.  It’s worth a try.

Thanks Polly!  I am looking into the rest of your information as well.

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