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Chiropractic Care
Pregnancy & Chiropractic
Throughout your pregnancy, your body undergoes significant physiological and hormonal changes as it prepares for the birth of your baby. Chiropractic care is a safe, gentle, and effective way to help you better manage these changes - reducing discomfort and supporting a healthier pregnancy from start to finish.
Benefits During Pregnancy
- Detection, prevention & correction of fetal malposition
- Reduction in preeclampsia
- Less back pain and back labor
- Reduced need for pain medication during delivery
- Shorter labor times
- More comfort while breastfeeding
- Greater production of breastmilk
- Less incidence of postpartum depression
- Promotes regular menstrual cycles (pre-pregnancy)
- Ensures proper nerve supply to reproductive organs
Why Is Chiropractic Care Important During Pregnancy?
Your body goes through many physical changes as it prepares for birth. Chiropractic care can help you manage these changes as your pregnancy progresses:
- Center of gravity shifts forward, placing extra strain and force through the lumbar spinal joints.
- The hormone relaxin loosens joints, increasing mobility and decreasing stability - which can aggravate previous injuries and amplify pelvic imbalances.
- Growing baby and increased fetal movement creates expansion of the lower rib cage, aggravating mid-back joints.
- Increased breast size adds additional strain to upper thoracic joints.
- Modified gait creates variations in skeletal joint and muscle mobility, aggravating the pelvic joints, hip joints, and sciatic nerves.
- Pelvic misalignment alters the pelvic opening, leading to intrauterine constraint and fetopelvic disproportion.
In a hospital study that incorporated chiropractic adjustments during pregnancy, there was a 50% decrease in the need for painkillers during delivery.