Osteopathic Center for Children & Families

How We Help Your Child
by Viola Frymann, D.O., F.A.A.O., F.C.A.

The Osteopathic Center for Children & Families provides a comprehensive approach to children, to enable them to function at the optimum of their potential.

The osteopathic dimension is concerned with the structural inadequacies resulting from trauma during or after birth, from athletic or recreational activities and from motor vehicle or similar accidents. It is these structural changes that underlie functional disturbances such as the digestive problems of the newborn e.g. difficulty sucking or vomiting, the recurrent infections and allergic phenomena of infancy and childhood, the academic difficulties e.g. ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder); dyslexia; autism; scoliosis; malocclusion and behavioral inadequacies during the school years.

The emphasis on healthful nutrition, the eating and drinking of natural, whole, unadulterated, unprocessed foods provides an improved foundation on which health can develop.

The neurological developmental profile not only provides a measure of the child's developmental status today, but provides a baseline from which to measure progress in response to various therapeutic interventions. In addition the neurological developmentalist provides a program to be performed at home to stimulate the unfolding potential of the nervous system.

Inadequacies of visual function may contribute to academic difficulties. Such inadequacies refer to coordination of the eye muscles, which interfere with smooth tracking in reading, transposing from the blackboard to the desk, throwing and catching a ball, and coordinated bodily activity in sports or gymnastics. Developmental optometry is therefore an important modality incorporated into the program of the Osteopathic Center for Children & Families.

The role of parents and the extended family as well as teachers is also vital in this objective. Programs to guide and encourage them in all these dimensions will be included.

The osteopathic physicians, the neurological developmentalist and the developmental optometrist share one objective, namely to help this child function optimally now, and grow into the wholeness of which he is capable in his future.

Osteopathic Center for Children & Families
4135 54th Place • San Diego, California 92105 • 619.583.7611
information@osteopathiccenter.org