Pregnancy Chiropractic
While an exciting and life-changing time, pregnancy is also accompanied by various aches and pains. As taking medication isn’t an option, natural chiropractic care can address such discomfort allowing you to enjoy the comfortable and healthy pregnancy you deserve.
- Preconception: Chiropractic care helps the body to be as strong, supple and balanced as possible to carry the pregnancy.
- Pregnancy: Regular chiropractic care during pregnancy can reduce back pain, nausea and other types of discomfort without the use of drugs.
- Labor and Birth: Being under chiropractic care throughout pregnancy can help to reduce labor time and decrease the need for interventions during the birth process.
- After Birth: Even natural births can place stress on a baby’s spine. That’s why we recommend that you have your baby adjusted as soon after giving birth as possible. We use about the same amount of pressure that’s employed to check a tomato for ripeness.
Webster Technique
Nerve Interferences where the sacrum joins the pelvis (hip) can be quite common during the course of pregnancy, and can produce a variety of symptoms in mothers preparing for the culmination of their pregnancy. Besides potentially interfering with the baby assuming the normal head-down position in preparation for delivery, it can produce a variety of symptoms in mothers preparing for the culmination of their pregnancy.
The Sacral Nerve Interference:
Developed by the late Larry Webster, D.C., the chiropractic technique he developed and taught chiropractors around the world, helps release stress on the pelvis, relaxing surrounding ligaments and reducing the sacral nerve interference to help restore more normal function.
Sacral nerve interferences may cause the tightening and twisting of pelvic muscles and ligaments, constraining the uterus. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of nerve interference and the associated dysfunction of the sacroiliac joint. The result? Neurobiomechanical function in the sacral/pelvic region is improved, benefiting pregnant mothers or others with sacral nerve interferences.
High Success Rate:
The July/August 2002 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reports that 82% of chiropractors using the Webster Technique reported success in reducing the sacral nerve interference.
Sometimes when using the Webster Technique, the associated dysfunction of the sacroiliac joint can be reduced with just one adjustment. But usually it takes between three to 10 visits over a several week period.
Because the Webster Technique relies on the inborn intelligence of the mother and baby, there is little risk. The Webster Technique is based on the positive experiences of pregnant patients, the clinical experience of its many practitioners, academic studies on the subject of sacral nerve interference and its consequences to proper pelvic function.
Frequently Asked Questions
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