Prenatal chiropractic care is a very helpful way to deal with the changes your body is making during pregnancy. As our body changes to accommodate a growing baby, it undergoes a lot if physical changes. Relaxin, a hormone made during pregnancy, causes your ligaments to become very loose. This, coupled with changes in your center of gravity, causes your body to become unstable. Prenatal Chiropractic adjustments can help to stabilize the body and adapt to the changes it is making over the nine months of pregnancy.
Prenatal chiropractic adjustments can help to minimize low back pain, pubic pain, round ligament pain, and mid back pain that is often felt during pregnancy due to these shifts in gravity. Even more important, proper chiropractic care can ensure that your nerve system is functioning at 100%. When we have spinal misalignments (pregnant women are even more susceptible to this due to ligament instability), our nervous system can be compromised. The nervous system controls all other systems and organs in the body including the system that is developing the baby. Because the mother’s body is working for two, the healthier her body and organs are, the healthier her developing child.
In addition to helping with general aches and pains of pregnancy, and making sure your nerve system is healthy, prenatal chiropractors help to get the baby in the optimal position for birth! If there is tension or torsion in your hips or the joints of your pelvis are not mobile, the baby may have a hard time getting into the optimal position for labor. Regular chiropractic care during pregnancy can help to take torsion off the pelvis and line the baby up for an optimal position. In fact, at Pure Light Chiropractic, we are trained in Webster technique. This is a specific chiropractic technique that helps to optimize the position of the baby and prevent breech presentations.
If you are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or post-partum, chiropractic care is a safe and natural way to help you maintain your health and the health of your unborn child.
Laine Morales DC
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