Clicking Shoulders?

[simjt]

Sometimes when I pick up my DS of 10 months up, his shoulders or back sometimes click, kind of like the sound when you crack your knuckles in your fingers! He is in no pain at all and the Clinic Nurse told me not to worry about it and to just ask the Dr next time I'm there.

But I can't help thinking it sounds horrible and maybe it should not be happening.

Any experience with this or advice, would love to hear if someone else has experienced this before!

[meme]

my little one does this too. i just think that babies are made flexi, they have to be to be in utero and be born and then to get through learning to crawl and walk.

it is just there little bodies adjusting i think.

love to hear what you health advisor says too.

[elissas]

My DS has been like this since birth. I spoke to the nurse at his 4 week appt and she said not to worry about it unless he appears to be in pain. All along I've felt that something was not quite right, and that even though he wasn't in pain, that it was affecting him in some way.

By the time he was 8 months I couldn't pick him up without his back cracking all the way down. By this stage, despite people saying babies can be like that, I knew it was affecting him.

I found a woman who does Network Spinal Analysis. She found his spine to have problems in a number of areas, as well as his shoulder. The problems in his neck, lower back, shoulder blade area and shoulder were partly to do with lax ligaments, which DH and I both have (so he is destined to get them). The upside of lax ligaments is that you are naturally flexible (DH can still do the splits), the downside is that your body is in permanent compensation mode (I've had years of physio due to knee problems, flat feet, hip problems, back problems etc).

Anyway, just because you're not in pain doesn't mean that problems don't arise in the central nervous system. Found out that DS' adrenal glands had been overstimulated for 9mths! Hence the catnaps and 2hrly night wakings. The lower back problems were also causing his terrible wind pains, stomach upsets and constipation. He also refused solids, and chose to exclusively breastfeed till a couple of weeks ago (mainly due to the solids upsetting his belly even more). The excess adrenaline was causing him to be clingy and unsettled, because he couldn't relax. I couldn't put him down and walk away for more than a few minutes without him getting distressed. He constantly needed attention and could only feed to sleep, which made his belly worse and woke him up earlier than he should have.

After only a couple of weeks' treatment on his back, he now naps 2-3times a day, usually 1-2 hrs. He is now down to 2-3 wakings per night and it is getting better all the time. He accepts sleep and actually starts winding down by himself about 5:30 and is down by 7:30 every night. He wakes 7am every morning like clockwork. Till now there had been NO pattern. He goes to sleep in minutes just being held in my arms, no feeding!

He has no more wind or belly problems, can fart like a machine, has at least one bowel movement a day with no effort (and that's usually 7:30am on the button), he is eating more solids.

Within 24 hrs of his first treatment he had 2 x 2hr daytime naps, 2 bowel movements, and was able to play independently for extended periods (hours the next day in total!) He didn't fight sleep and was happier than I'd ever seen him.

She has also adjusted his jaw from the inside of his mouth a couple of times, and hey presto, teething symptoms gone and teeth finally appearing (he'd been up and down teething since he was 3mths old but hadn't delivered any toothie pegs yet.

The list of benefits and improvements from the treatment is incredible and goes beyond what I've discussed here.

So after a long long post... yes, I'd get their backs looked into! It might not be causing them direct pain, but the spine houses our central nervous system, which is the system that runs our body and tells everything how to function. So it's possible that more is being affected than you know.