Why should I have chiropractic care during pregnancy?
During pregnancy, the body undergoes hormonal and physical changes to support the growing baby. These changes can lead to spinal or joint misalignment due to:
• A protruding abdomen and increased back curve
• Pelvic shifts
• Postural adaptations
Chiropractic care helps maintain pelvic balance, reducing intrauterine constraint and ensuring the baby has enough room to move into an optimal birth position. A misaligned pelvis can make natural birth more challenging, increasing the likelihood of interventions like c-sections. Since the nervous system controls all body functions, including reproduction, spinal alignment supports overall health during pregnancy.
Prenatal Chiropractic
A baby who is not in the position to be delivered head first at the time of labour is known to be in breech position, which can lead to complications including a highly difficult vaginal delivery, cord prolapse, or a C-section delivery. Chiropractic care during pregnancy helps you maintain healthy pelvic balance, so your baby has enough room to freely move head-first into the correct delivery position. During your eighth month of pregnancy, make regular chiropractic adjustments a priority to avoid breech presentation and benefit from optimal positioning.
Whats Included
What To Expect During Your first Visit
Before your first visit, you’ll receive an online questionnaire to complete, helping us gather key background information and streamline your appointment.
During your initial consultation, we’ll take a detailed look at your case history, including your current concerns, medical background, exercise routine, nutrition, and lifestyle. This will be followed by orthopedic and neurological assessments to ensure an accurate diagnosis.
After the examination, your first treatment session will begin. We’ll also offer advice on nutrition, lifestyle adjustments, and rehabilitation exercises if needed. If necessary, we may refer you for X-rays, further tests, or other healthcare specialists based on your condition.
faq
1. What are the benefits of chiro during pregnancy?
Potential benefits of prenatal chiro during pregnancy include
• Maintaining a healthier pregnancy
• Controlling symptoms of nausea
• Reducing the time of labour and delivery
• Relieving back, neck or joint pain
• Preventing a potential cesarean delivery2. Why prenatal chiropractic care?
As your body changes both physically and physiologically with pregnancy, many discomforts arise. The pelvis widens, the spine compresses, and one’s posture begins to curve, among other changes. With all these changes come aches and pains. Receiving routine treatment during pregnancy can help continued alignment of the spine and maintaining pelvic balance, providing several benefits.
In addition to pain relief, chiropractic care can help avoid certain risks during labour and delivery and help those who want to have a noninvasive, natural birth through ideal positioning and pain management. As a result of chiropractic care, improved circulation, optimal spinal alignment, ideal pelvic position, and overall emotional wellbeing all contribute to a more comfortable, positive prenatal and postnatal experience. Get in touch with us for a prenatal chiro session.
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