KIDS’ health is a big jigsaw puzzle with many different elements and aspects, and if you think that only one health professional can fix all your child’s problems, think again!
The reality is that your child needs a team of professionals who are willing to cross bridges and look at the problem from all the aspects through the eyes of other health professionals.
The traditional way of thinking is to medicate the symptoms without looking at the root cause of the problem. We’ve come to think of illness as a catalogue of problems to be solved, but we tend not to think enough about wellness.
By looking at the human body and its wellbeing as a complex structure, we can no longer think that we can treat a problem in one area and ignore the rest.
Children and young people should be treated as thinking, feeling people who are members of a family and who have a range of strengths and needs. Health professionals should consider all these, not just the health problem the child or young person has that day.
The health of children determines their health as adults, so by giving the young kids the best chance at the start of their life, we set them on a better track for adulthood. The goal is to encourage as many kids as possible to enter their adulthood with maximum potential for health and wellbeing uncompromised.
What is a multidisciplinary approach to kids’ health? This means multiple health professionals sharing their expertise to provide the best possible treatment and outcomes for your child.
Once an infant is born and checked at the hospital for all vital signs and responses for general health, they get to be discharged and go home with parents. Thinking about it in simple terms as parents always say “my baby feeds, sleeps and poos” and if we take the sleeping out of the sentence, we can see that the baby feed and poo, that is a whole one system of the human body called the digestive system.
As the knowledge increases of the importance of feeding in early infancy and childhood, the function of feeding “correctly ” has become an area of focus to enforce the correct function from the start.
At this early stage of life, a team approach consists of Lactation Consultant, Chiropractor, Speech Pathologist, Dentist, Midwife, Podiatrist, Nutritionist who can share their wide knowledge and expertise to improve the functionality as early as possible. Having multiple professionals allows for better holistic approach to the problem and improve the final outcomes for your child.