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Connected Paediatrics Weekly: It’s a journey

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader

Dad Joke: What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese!

Song of the Week: Hollow Coves - Coastline

People do things they enjoy doing.

People enjoy things they understand.

People understand that they need to progress.

Ask yourself this…How many people would do karate if there were no belts? How many people would play video games if they couldn’t reach new levels? And how many people carry on with chiropractic care without a plan which shows that they are levelling up?

Treating a condition is wonderful and important. But when those symptoms disappear…so do they. Because that’s the progression: symptom has disappeared, they have levelled up as far as possible…and that’s the journey. It’s been completed.

Take for example young Molly who is brought in to see you with a feeding issue. She is having trouble getting her tongue to the roof of her mouth and so feeding is difficult. There are two choices in front of us…

1. Address the feeding and only the feeding. Treat, co-manage etc. and get the feeding result the parent is after. Job done, journey over.

or

2. Address and manage the feeding issue as the immediate problem whilst starting to educate your parent on childhood facial development and how problematic feeding can be an initial symptom around poor airway development.

You now have a parent who is looking not only at their child’s health now but has had their perspective widened as to how choices they make now can affect their child’s future health. The journey has levelled up.

Where there is function…there is a journey.

Getting a parent excited about their child’s development by educating them on the next steps is about the most potent force for good the child can have. A parent that understands what good function looks like is a parent that can get involved in a meaningful way.

Each milestone is a system upgrade, a new level that has been unlocked. People understand progression. It’s up to us to get them excited about it and invested in their child’s future health.

People come to appointments they enjoy.

People enjoy seeing changes in their children that they understand.

People understand that their children need to progress.

Chat soon,

Mike

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Connected Paediatrics

Mike Marinus

This newsletter is for you if you are a chiropractor who enjoys treating paediatric patients.

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