Support Your Child's Development with Natural, Drug-Free Care
Finding healthcare for your child is very challenging these days. Drug-free, lightly doses herbs and supplements, and food-centered solution are here at Hackett Holistic Health. From infants to teens, Dr. Hackett has treated many common complaints in a calm, relaxed setting.
Is acupuncture right for your child? Maybe, maybe not. There are many options we can use to address the same problem. Dr. Hackett usually utilizes:
- Japanese style needling (extremely tiny needles)
- Toyohari (Japanese style meridian stim without skin puncture)
- Nearinfrared canopy (covers entire table, you two can curl up together for the treatment with cool sunglasses for the littles)
- Tuina+GuaSha (usually for infants, type of gentle stretch+massage you can do at home, too).
Long nights and rough days of misery to go around. This can be curtailed or even eliminated with the correct prevention strategy for your family. Herbal medicines, supplements, and foods dosed by weight or age for kids of all ages and for parents.
Nipping the first symptoms in the bud are key to this strategy. Dr. Hackett helps design this for your unique needs. Stop the exposure merry-go-round every year. The project is to build up the resilience of the immune system and provide the supports it needs for the strongest response. There’s no need to suffer.
Straightforward and effective solutions for minimizing or eliminating allergies. Whether it’s seasonal allergies, environmental allergies, or food allergies, Dr. Hackett has treated it in every age group.
Food allergy tests generally do not provide a very clear or accurate picture of the root cause of your child’s allergies. We discuss the natural history of the issue, cause and effects of foods and categories of exposures and work out a protocol from there. Kids are resilient and their bodies are designed to heal and respond quickly to treatment. We do not linger on remedies that are not showing results in short periods of time.
The younger the child, the more difficult it is for them to tell you what they are experiencing in clear terms. Even older kids who aren’t used to being unwell or are used to discomfort and living around it have trouble expressing it.
Dr. Hackett can help with:
- diarrhea and constipation
- reflux and colic
- thrush/candida
- skin issues
Restlessness and inability to settle into a healthy sleep cycle can be challenging for some children. Sleep hygiene is a different for kids than adults. Melatonin is not always the answer. Dr. Hackett rarely adds that to her protocols.
Single remedy herbals, some supplements, and/or homeopathics are the typical go-to options. We review everything that you’ve tried so far and work from there.
Anxiety and other common emotional problems plague kids these days. There are natural, drug-free ways to resolve these issues that support the best development of your child’s brain.
We discuss your child’s whole health: dietary habits, digestion, sleep regulation, triggers and history, and simple mindfulness techniques to help your child feel more in control of their own internal world.
Children respond well to acupuncture and relatively quickly to treatment. Needle-phobia is perfectly normal and we work through it gently. Dr. Hackett uses as few needles as possible to get relief and healing for your child.
Neck, shoulder, and back pain or injury, hypermobility issues, fracture and sprain healing, muscle spasm relief, shin splints, TMJ, and concussion recovery are all common issues that Dr. Hackett treats successfully.
