Pregnancy and Pediatrics
Your Body, Your Baby
If you are pregnant, one of the best things you can do is see a doctor of chiropractic. Chiropractic care provides so many things a pregnant body needs: a flexible and balanced spine, hips and pelvis; internal organs without postural stress and freedom from nerve stress – all essential for a healthy pregnancy and delivery.
Awaiting arrival of your new baby will be a time of change for you and your body. Studies show that women are able to carry and deliver their babies with more comfort when receiving chiropractic care. Over the course of pregnancy, expectant mothers’ weight gain will reach somewhere between 20 and 40 pounds. The increase in weight can create spinal misalignment and/or postural distortions, which in turn affect nerves, muscles, and mobility of joints. In addition, many women experience heartburn, rib pain, pubic pain, headaches, sinus congestion and low back pain, often time because of the spinal changes that occur during pregnancy, many of which that were not there prior to becoming pregnant. Many women report relief of these symptoms while under chiropractic care.
What Does A Doctor Of Chiropractic Do?
A pregnant woman needs to have her body as healthy and strong as possible in order to handle the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth. Chiropractic care will help ensure that all the body systems function optimally; especially the reproductive system including the uterus, ovaries and related organs and structures which are essential for a healthy pregnancy. If the body structure is causing the slightest nerve interference to these systems it could adversely affect the mother and the developing fetus. Dr. Kayla is certified in the Webster’s Technique, a specific chiropractic sacral analysis and diversified adjustment, primarily for pregnant women. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation/ SI joint dysfunction. In so doing neuro-biomechanical function in the pelvis is improved. Dr. Kayla will examine your body for these subluxations, and if found, she will correct them with a gentle and specific chiropractic adjustment.
Can Chiropractic Help?
Chiropractic care may help maintain pregnancy, control vomiting, deliver full-term infants with ease and produce healthier infants. Chiropractic has demonstrated success with back pain, premature contractions and back labor. [8][9][10]
If you are experiencing any low back pain, or learn that your baby is breech, posterior or transverse, please consider chiropractic care.
Low Back Pain
Receiving chiropractic care during pregnancy may help ensure that the expectant mother’s pelvic bones are balanced, often times facilitating a quicker, easier delivery. In one study, women receiving chiropractic care through their first pregnancy had 24% shorter labor times than the group not receiving chiropractic care. As the baby continues to increase in size, the mother's center of gravity shifts forward. In order to compensate, the natural curves of the spine exaggerate causing low back pain. Studies involving women receiving chiropractic care during pregnancy reported relief of back pain. Chiropractic care can provide freedom from interference of normal nerve energy, which is vital for the development of a healthy baby and mother.
Post-partum Recovery
Post-partum chiropractic care is a must to ensure that the mother can achieve pre-pregnant status. Correcting subluxations within the spine and pelvis are very important considerations to achieve and maintain optimal health potential. Chiropractic care for your new baby is also very important. Adjustments to newborns contain only ounces of force. This force is directed into the spine to facilitate health and remove vertebral subluxations. What better way to help prevent problems that may have arisen during the birth?
[8] Stein K The value of chiropractic care in cases of pregnancy. ACA J Chiropractic. July 1964: 19
[9] Brynhildsen J hansson A, Persson A, Hammar M, Follow-up of patients with low back pain during pregnancy. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 1998;91 (2):182-186.
[10] Phillips C, An effective drug-free approachto premature contractions. ICA Review, Oct 1998.
[13] Lisi AJ. Chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain of pregnancy: a retrospective case series. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health. 2006; 51: e7-10.
If you are pregnant, one of the best things you can do is see a doctor of chiropractic. Chiropractic care provides so many things a pregnant body needs: a flexible and balanced spine, hips and pelvis; internal organs without postural stress and freedom from nerve stress – all essential for a healthy pregnancy and delivery.
Awaiting arrival of your new baby will be a time of change for you and your body. Studies show that women are able to carry and deliver their babies with more comfort when receiving chiropractic care. Over the course of pregnancy, expectant mothers’ weight gain will reach somewhere between 20 and 40 pounds. The increase in weight can create spinal misalignment and/or postural distortions, which in turn affect nerves, muscles, and mobility of joints. In addition, many women experience heartburn, rib pain, pubic pain, headaches, sinus congestion and low back pain, often time because of the spinal changes that occur during pregnancy, many of which that were not there prior to becoming pregnant. Many women report relief of these symptoms while under chiropractic care.
What Does A Doctor Of Chiropractic Do?
A pregnant woman needs to have her body as healthy and strong as possible in order to handle the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth. Chiropractic care will help ensure that all the body systems function optimally; especially the reproductive system including the uterus, ovaries and related organs and structures which are essential for a healthy pregnancy. If the body structure is causing the slightest nerve interference to these systems it could adversely affect the mother and the developing fetus. Dr. Kayla is certified in the Webster’s Technique, a specific chiropractic sacral analysis and diversified adjustment, primarily for pregnant women. The goal of the adjustment is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation/ SI joint dysfunction. In so doing neuro-biomechanical function in the pelvis is improved. Dr. Kayla will examine your body for these subluxations, and if found, she will correct them with a gentle and specific chiropractic adjustment.
Can Chiropractic Help?
Chiropractic care may help maintain pregnancy, control vomiting, deliver full-term infants with ease and produce healthier infants. Chiropractic has demonstrated success with back pain, premature contractions and back labor. [8][9][10]
If you are experiencing any low back pain, or learn that your baby is breech, posterior or transverse, please consider chiropractic care.
Low Back Pain
Receiving chiropractic care during pregnancy may help ensure that the expectant mother’s pelvic bones are balanced, often times facilitating a quicker, easier delivery. In one study, women receiving chiropractic care through their first pregnancy had 24% shorter labor times than the group not receiving chiropractic care. As the baby continues to increase in size, the mother's center of gravity shifts forward. In order to compensate, the natural curves of the spine exaggerate causing low back pain. Studies involving women receiving chiropractic care during pregnancy reported relief of back pain. Chiropractic care can provide freedom from interference of normal nerve energy, which is vital for the development of a healthy baby and mother.
Post-partum Recovery
Post-partum chiropractic care is a must to ensure that the mother can achieve pre-pregnant status. Correcting subluxations within the spine and pelvis are very important considerations to achieve and maintain optimal health potential. Chiropractic care for your new baby is also very important. Adjustments to newborns contain only ounces of force. This force is directed into the spine to facilitate health and remove vertebral subluxations. What better way to help prevent problems that may have arisen during the birth?
[8] Stein K The value of chiropractic care in cases of pregnancy. ACA J Chiropractic. July 1964: 19
[9] Brynhildsen J hansson A, Persson A, Hammar M, Follow-up of patients with low back pain during pregnancy. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 1998;91 (2):182-186.
[10] Phillips C, An effective drug-free approachto premature contractions. ICA Review, Oct 1998.
[13] Lisi AJ. Chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain of pregnancy: a retrospective case series. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health. 2006; 51: e7-10.
