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Dorough Chiropractic

Dr. Dorough, of Dorough Chiropractic, offers chiropractic care for all ages and abilities including pregnancy care, infant care, pediatric care, and adult care. 

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Jennifer McDonald DO, FACOG

Dr. McDonald not only supports families through a safe labor and delivery process, but also has a special interest in women’s preventive health, contraception, menstrual disorders, abnormal pap smears and management, as well as helping women address medical issues related to menopause, breast cancer and gynecologic infectious diseases. She also has a passion for menopause disorders and infertility.

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Articles

Differentiating the impact of biomechanical forces of labor and delivery vs. the effect of a posterior tongue tie on neonatal and infant feeding dysfunction: a clinical evaluation

This is a clinical evaluation that links labor stresses with the appearance of tongue ties in infants. 

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Positive Health Outcomes Following Chiropractic Care in an Infant with Birth Trauma, Clavicular Fracture, Subluxation, and Breastfeeding Dysfunction: A Case Report & Review of the Literature

Andrew Dorough, DC, DACCP1 & Joel Alcantara, DC, PhD2

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Neonatal Brain Injury
An Illustrated Guide for Clinicians Counselling Parents and Caregivers

This Open Access book is the first to provide clinicians with practical guidelines to explain the most frequently occurring neonatal brain injuries to parents and caretakers.

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Birth Trauma and Perinatal Brain Damage

This book focuses on traumatic birth injuries, predominantly of the skull and brain, as well as hemorrhagic and ischemic disorders of cerebral circulation in fetuses and newborns

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Latent Spinal Cord and Brain Stem Injury in Newborn Infants

Spinal cord and brain stem injuries occur often during the process of birth, but frequently escape diagnosis

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Incidence of Somatic Dysfunction in Healthy Newborns

Recent evidence suggests that osteopathic manipulative treatment of somatic dysfunction in newborns may decrease complications and hospital length of stay. Such dysfunction may result from external forces related to the birth process, but its incidence is unknown.

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Latent Spinal Cord and Brain Stem Injury in Newborn Infants

Spinal cord and brain stem injuries occur often during the process of birth, but frequently escape diagnosis

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Incidence of Somatic Dysfunction in Healthy Newborns

Recent evidence suggests that osteopathic manipulative treatment of somatic dysfunction in newborns may decrease complications and hospital length of stay. Such dysfunction may result from external forces related to the birth process, but its incidence is unknown.

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Differentiating the impact of biomechanical forces of labor and delivery vs. the effect of a posterior tongue tie on neonatal and infant feeding dysfunction: a clinical evaluation

This is a clinical evaluation that links labor stresses with the appearance of tongue ties in infants. 

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Positive Health Outcomes Following Chiropractic Care in an Infant with Birth Trauma, Clavicular Fracture, Subluxation, and Breastfeeding Dysfunction: A Case Report & Review of the Literature

Andrew Dorough, DC, DACCP1 & Joel Alcantara, DC, PhD2

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Perinatal and Neonatal Risk Factors for Autism: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis

Factors associated with autism risk in the meta-analysis were abnormal presentation, umbilical-cord complications, fetal distress, birth injury or trauma, multiple birth, maternal hemorrhage, summer birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age, congenital malformation, low 5-minute Apgar score, feeding difficulties, meconium aspiration

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Traumatic Childbirth and Its Aftermath: Is There Anything Positive?

Up to 45% of new mothers have reported experiencing birth trauma. For some individuals who have experienced a traumatic event, there can be a positive legacy called posttraumatic growth

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Podcasts

Stress-Strain Injury in Newborns & Chiropractic Care

This is an Embrace. Live. Thrive. podcasts that hosted Dr. Dorough to discuss stress-strain injuries in newborns. 

How Birth Affects Baby's Oral Development with Andrew Dorough DC, DACCP

This is a Natural Birth Talk podcast. This episode talks about how many hospital births are induced or assisted in some way, & even out-of-hospital births can be long or have other factors that can cause the baby's body to be misaligned. They go into the potential signs in Mom & Baby that suggest Baby might need a little extra help in their first few days/months of life.

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Decoding the Effects of Birth Trauma on Feeding

This is a Pathways podcast. This episode is with Dr. Andrew Dorough on his research article from 2021. 

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