PREGNANCY
Chiropractic if you are pregnant?? ABSOLUTELY!! Keeping your spine
free from vertebral subluxation complex is one of the best things
you can do if you are pregnant. If there’s one group of people
who need chiropractic spinal checkups more than any other, it’s
pregnant women.
Pregnant women need their bodies to be as healthy and as strong
as possible in order to handle the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth.
Chiropractic care will help ensure that the reproductive and other
systems so essential for a healthy pregnancy receive a nerve supply
from the spinal column without interference. The slightest interference
to the nerve supply could adversely affect the mother and developing
fetus.
Pregnant women have many concerns: staying pregnant, carrying the
baby to full-term, morning sickness, the normal development of the
baby, backaches, leg pain, not to mention a safe labor.
Can Chiropractic help ease their minds? In the Journal of the American
Osteopathic Association, a number of practitioners commented on
the effectiveness of spinal care for pregnant women. The following
are just a few of their remarks:
"For normal patients, correction of vertebral subluxations
definitely helps normal function and rehabilitation. Manipulation
can be of great value in normalizing the body functions of women
with problems of pregnancy, such as toxemia."
"Manipulative therapy...normalizes functions of the pituitary,
adrenal, ovarian, and placental systems, including the craniosacral
medication requirement...Postpartum depression is a rarity in patients
receiving...manipulative therapy."
Is chiropractic care safe in pregnancy?
Very safe and very sensible for both mother and baby.
How late in pregnancy is it possible to get an adjustment?
Patients have received adjustments even during labor.
Can spinal care help with postpartum depression?
For years Chiropractic’s beneficial effects on emotional stress
and personality have been noted and documented.
Can my baby receive chiropractic care?
Infants a few hours old have been given spinal checkups and adjustments
(if needed).
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