Manual medicine and speech

Motoric disorders in children are often associated with problems in normal speech development. Improvements in speech development can be seen after treating functional disorders of the craniovertebral joints, in particular where logopedic therapy has not been successful. Manual medicine seems to be a good additional therapy, especially in therapy-refractive patients and can prevent long therapy careers. Success of manual techniques does not seem to follow a regular scheme and cannot be validated because qualified screening methods and studies with suitable numbers do not yet exist. Diagnostic and therapeutic concepts will be presented.