What do you feel in terms of pediatric practices in terms of the risk itself compared to a more general, or adult-oriented, or a pain management practice, or personal injury, things like that when it comes to the safety and effectiveness that we offer through chiropractic here? Dr. Apfelblat: Well, I take the risk factor the same as with adults in the practice. I think it's very important to have proper documentation. I think it's very important to have a good professional relationship with the parents. I think it's very important to be in agreement with the care plan, and I think that it's very important on their report of findings visit to sit down to show them. On each of report of findings visit with the pediatric patient, I will show the parents a chart of the nervous system, where the subluxation is, what are the symptoms that they came into the practice for their child and explaining very clearly that we're not treating medical conditions. That we are treating vertebral subluxation. That we hope that as we clear the subluxation, your child's body will be able to function in its maximum potential and will be able to be healthier and, hopefully, these conditions will resolve themselves, but that is not what we're treating. I think it's really important to be in agreement with that on the first visit so that you can move forward on the same page because I think that there is a problem ... Once I had a child in the in the practice who had allergies his whole life. The mother came in for the report of findings. We went over the nervous system. We were in agreement. We started with the care plan. Then on the third visit, his father started coming in with him for his appointments. For three visits to be exact, I would be adjusting his child, and he would be saying things like, "Is this making his allergies worse? Is chiropractic not helping him? Is it making it worse?" I think it's really important to be on the same page so that the parents know exactly what you're treating because if they think you are not helping a condition, I don't think that's good either. I think when something like that happens, you have to halt the care plan, halt the care, have a meeting with the parents and make sure that you're on the same page moving forward. Dr. Hoffman: With anything else, communication is the key. Dr. Apfelblat: Yeah.
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