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Chiropractic during Pregnancy:              The Webster Technique

9/3/2013

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Chiropractic adjustments are one of the best things a mom can do during her pregnancy.  A well-adjusted spine is necessary for optimizing health during pregnancy, optimizing the baby’s development, as well as creating conditions favoring a positive birth outcome. One of the most effective techniques for pregnant women is the Webster Technique.

Chiropractic adjustments correct subluxations, or misalignments in the spine that disrupt the proper performance of the nervous system. These disruptions diminish an individual’s ability to function optimally. This is key during pregnancy because a mother’s functioning becomes challenged, due to the rapid changes of her growing baby.  Furthermore, her baby’s growth and development hinges on her functioning and the internal environment that she creates for her baby.  The Webster Technique specifically addresses the subluxations in her sacrum and pelvis.

Pregnant moms are more susceptible to sacral and pelvic subluxations because of increased hormones (relaxin), weight gain, and the associated changes in her posture. The aim of the Webster Technique is to decrease the effects of subluxations in the sacrum and pelvis through a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment, in order to improve neuro-biomechanical functioning to the sacral/pelvic region. Restoring this neuro-biomechanical functioning may affect the baby’s spinal and nervous system development, improve the baby’s positioning and birth outcome, prevent dystocia (difficult labor), and relieve general aches and pains in the sacrum and pelvis. 

In practice, the feedback received from mothers that I performed the Webster Technique on during pregnancy has been overwhelmingly positive. I observed marked improvements in their health, quality of life, and overall disposition as they continued care throughout their pregnancy. They reported positive birth outcomes with beautiful birth experiences. In fact, many of the moms didn’t receive the Webster Technique during their previous pregnancies. They noted having a better pregnancy and birth this time around because of chiropractic and the Webster Technique.  First-time moms expressed gratitude for the care received during pregnancy.

Pregnancy is a critical period for both the mother and the baby. It prepares the baby for the external world that they will enter and it lays the framework for their future health. A baby’s potential is a quality developed during pregnancy. It needs optimum physical, chemical, and emotional conditions to manifest its greatest possibility. Through the chiropractic and the Webster Technique, a mother can achieve optimal functioning of her nervous system, which in turn improves her health and creates conditions for her child to be born with the greatest potential possible.

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Chiropractic during Pregnancy

8/26/2013

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As a chiropractor that specializes in delivering the finest chiropractic care to pregnant moms and their children, I see on a regular basis how vital chiropractic is to a healthy, happy pregnancy. Time and time again, moms tell me how much better their experience was with this pregnancy and birth compared to previous ones, because they received chiropractic adjustments during pregnancy. First-time moms tell me that their births were amazing because they received regular chiropractic adjustments. I’ve even had a first-time mom tell me, “I don’t even know how women [give birth] without regular chiropractic.” With all this great feedback, it’s easy to forget that popular culture doesn’t think of chiropractic as a key element to a happy, healthy pregnancy.

So how does chiropractic help during pregnancy?  To answer this question, we have to understand the nature of chiropractic. The purpose of chiropractic is to correct subluxations, or misalignments in the spine that disrupt proper functioning of the nervous system.  The chiropractic adjustment corrects subluxations to improve nervous system functioning, which optimizes a person’s health. For pregnant mothers, chiropractic not only improves her health, but it also improves the growth and development of her child.

During pregnancy, a mother becomes more susceptible to becoming subluxated. First she produces the hormone relaxin, which reduces the stability of her spine by relaxing the ligaments throughout her body.  Then her body changes quickly and dramatically as her baby grows and develops.  The changes will distort the alignment of her spine and subluxate her. Coupled with the increased instability within her spine, these subluxations may induce additional subluxations in other areas of her spine.

Subluxations during pregnancy may lead to pain and discomfort including sinus, neck, shoulder, arm pain; carpal tunnel syndrome; low back pain, leg pain, sciatica; allergies, nausea, poor digestion, trouble breathing; and difficult labor (dystocia).  From clinical experience, I’ve witnessed marked improvements to health, functioning, immunity, and comfort in my practice members that received regular chiropractic adjustments during their pregnancy.

For the developing baby, regular chiropractic adjustments to their mother during pregnancy supports their optimal growth and development. From a neurological perspective, when a mother is unsubluxated, her baby neurologically develops in a state that is favors growth, development, and immunity. From a physical perspective, when a mother is unsubluxated, her baby can grow and develop in the optimum position. Optimum positioning contributes to the favorable spinal development of the baby and a favorable labor and delivery for the mother. 

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