In all the years of seeing the medical professionals and many other professionals dealing with Lauren’s myriad of issues, nobody has ever and I mean EVER mentioned a Chiropractor. I knew they existed and I ‘knew’ they dealt with bad backs. That is all I ever knew until Oct 2016. I met Rick and Andy from O’Connor Chiropractors in Ilkley, at the Ilkley complimentary medicine fayre. I initially went to talk to them as I have aches and pains myself. I quickly got talking about Lauren with them and before I knew it had booked her in for an initial assessment with the chiropractor Jason.

I was looking forward to it, but even after meeting with Jason along with Jonnie and Lauren, we were apprehensive and probably slightly nervous and somewhat skeptical. How after not knowing any of this information for 8 years could someone be telling us they could help Lauren.  Could he really? He didn’t suggest he could cure anything, he told us he could definitely help with some tension, some posture, some balance and open up some pathways from the brain to body which in effect could help a lot of things. It did seem a bit ‘too good to be true’ and we had many discussions over it and even got in touch with friends who are chiropractors to see what they had to say.

Lauren was NOT happy the first time, cried for a few more times as this was something new and out of the ordinary-but as you can see her smiles say it all-   

She just lies there and isn’t bothered by it at all now and relaxes at all the correct times!

My still very limited understanding of what he does is that he adjusts her a couple of times a week, this releases some tension in her hips, back head and neck; this is to open up pathways for the nervous system to work more efficiently throughout her body.

Now you all know she is a complicated little girl and half her issues comes from the brain. If her brain could communicate more efficiently with her body-what would this mean?

I think we were genuinely scared to get our hopes up that this could actually help Lauren, especially since no professional, medical or otherwise, had ever mentioned that a Chiropractor could possibly help Lauren. That in itself baffles me completely now!!

DOES IT HELP???????   YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you’re lucky enough to be on my instagram (aprilbirch)  😉 or my personal facebook then you will have seen in early January 2017 we videod Lauren standing up from being on the floor, from hand and knees, to hands and feet-then up she goes. It didn’t stop there-she then turned and walked to Daddy. Jonathan and I couldn’t believe the progress she had made in such a short amount of time. We properly started visits in Dec 2016. This was incredible. She suddenly had more energy, she became a bit of a ‘live wire’ and couldn’t sit still haha!! (Not always great 😎 ) and the only thing we had changed was taking her to these appointments and her seeing Jason. It’s the only thing that was different. Her balance has come on leaps and bounds, her desire and confidence to be free and walking alone has increased dramatically. The school staff are impressed, the Physio is impressed. Everyone who knows and loves her can see the difference. It’s incredible and I’ll say it again ” I cannot believe no one told us about it!!!!!”

The proof is in the pudding? Well my little pudding is doing great, and will be long seeing the guy who has added to this little girls quality of life.

Live in Ilkley and surrounding areas or Harrogate and surrounding areas? Have any health issues that no pills can help? Firstly-I bet I have a Doterra oil that can help 😉 Secondly it would be worth you looking into seeing Jason.

(his info can be found on facebook https://www.facebook.com/oconnorchiroilkley/)

From 2 very happily surprised Parents and 1 well adjusted little Lauren xx