Chiropractic Can Help With Bedwetting

Bedwetting can be a complicated condition that affects children over the age of four. Bedwetting is often blamed on a small bladder, poor habits or abnormal sleeping patterns. One of the causes that is often overlooked is bladder innervation disorder. This is where a chiropractor may be able to help. Studies have shown that bedwetting conditions are effectively resolved through natural chiropractic care which helps to remove nerve interference.

Chiropractic is usually not sought after for bedwetting until other methods have not worked. Enuresis is just one of the conditions that children go to the chiropractor for. It is normal for children to wet the bed up until the age of four or five. During the first few years of their life, they are learning to gain control of their bladder. By the age of five, most children should have control over their bladder.

– Primary enuresis is when the child has never been able to establish control of their bladder after the age of five.
– Secondary enuresis is the diagnosis of the condition when the child has had control, but then has the problem again later on.

People often give up on treatment when conventional methods don’t work. Parents hope that the child will grow out of it.

Chiropractic has been found effective for helping many children with bedwetting problems. The chiropractor helps to remove nerve interference that is blocking communication from the brain to the bladder. Understanding proper anatomy and physiology of the spine, sacrum and bladder can help understand how chiropractic is effective.

Proper emptying of the bladder is controlled by the detrusor and trigone muscles. The nerves that control these muscles stem from the parasympathetic nerves of S2 to S4. These nerves are related to the sacrum. Proper bladder control is also controlled by the urogenital diaphragm which gets its nerve innervation from the L2 spinal nerve. This is related to the lower back or lumbar spine. Chiropractors help bedwetting by adjusting the bones of these areas to remove irritation of the nerves which causes a loss of function.

The sacrum is a triangular bone at the base of the spine. It starts out as five separate segments that fuse later on in life. Misalignments of these segments can cause nerve irritation and loss of proper function. This malfunction can cause bladder problems and bed wetting. The spine and sacrum are subject to injury and trauma from falls in childhood and learning to walk. This injury to the sacrum and lumbar spine can be corrected by chiropractors which is why they are effective in helping with bedwetting. The chiropractor works to restore normal function of the nervous system and spine which restores proper communication from the brain to the bladder.