Childhood Injuries and their Long-Term Effect

We delve deeply into past medical history for a reason. Clients often slough off the question about ankle sprains, falls, hits, fractures, surgeries, etc as “that happened ages ago”. FYI, the longer dysfunction sits in the nervous system unchecked/untreated, the more corrosive it is to the body.

Please do your child a huge favour and document all their injuries, traumas and surgeries. It is extremely common for aches and pains to come up later in life (30's, 40's, 50's, etc). The reason for this is the body adapts to injuries efficiently when we are young, but as we age these compensatory strategies become exhausted and pain often results. The body does not reset back to where it was pre-injury (although with proper treatment it can come really close!) This is a big reason why people with similar type of pain may respond differently to various types of intervention. The reason their pain exists is not the same.

If you seek a bodyworker (Chiro, Physio, Osteo, Massage, etc) and want them to get to the root cause of your pain, they will need to know ALL surgeries and traumas. How has your body adapted? Often a good bodyworker will be able to pick up on injuries based on how the body moves and feels, but sometimes it is not as obvious and things are overlooked. If we understand how the body has adapted around injuries, our treatments can be much more effective.

If every patient came to me with an accurate list of injuries with dates, mechanism (how the body was injured) and where the pain was (along with any imaging) the efficiency of my treatments and their bank account would improve greatly.

The odds of your child experiencing pain later in life is very very high. If they have a list of injuries this will greatly increase the chance of them receiving helpful therapy. Make sure you have copies of all xrays, MRI's and other imaging including the report. Make your own medical chart for them. Even injuries where they don't go to the hospital.

Your nervous system runs the show and details are important.