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Concussion - in a four-year-old
Brad Miller, DC
Costa Mesa, California
The parents of 4-year-old Noah brought him in as soon as they returned from a vacation; he had fallen headfirst out of a bunk bed.
ER diagnosed a concussion; parents said he had a baseball-sized swelling that had subsided by the time they got to me. Most worrisome was that since the accident, Noah had become withdrawn and quiet and uncharacteristically did not want to be touched or held.
By the time I was through adjusting him, including a number of cranials, he was back to normal. He was cuddling with his mom afterward while I adjusted the rest of the family.
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