Pregnancy

Chiropractic care during pregnancy is one of the most vital parts of pediatric chiropractic. This is because the potential traumas that can afflict a child prior to birth may be able to be prevented or ameliorated. Birth can be the first incident in a long chain of events that gradually reduce an individual’s adaptive range. This is made most obvious by a breech pregnancy due to intrauterine constraint. Something that is very often effectively treated by chiropractors that are specially trained in pregnancy and pediatrics. Intrauterine constraint can create difficulties with the normal moulding process of the baby’s skull and result in plagiocephaly (oblique or flattened skull). Plagiocephaly is a treatable condition utilizing Chiropractic Craniopathy® or the cranial helmet.

Many pregnant women come to a chiropractor for low back pain. And although this can be very helpful to get one through the pregnancy it is preferable for them to begin care prior to pregnancy. This is because most often the major reasons for their back pain is poor musculoskeletal health that is made worse by the secretion of the hormone relaxin and the resultant laxity of ligaments. There are limitations to the types of treatments and exercises that can be performed on a pregnant mother depending upon how far into the gestation they are. This is why a proper assessment and plan of action to optimize the mother’s health, and subsequently the child’s health, is of the utmost importance.