Chesapeake Prenatal Chiropractic Care
During pregnancy, a woman's body undergoes a nine month, day in and day out, continuous preparation for birth. The endocrine system floods the body with hormones. The muscles of the abdomen relax to accommodate the growing fetus. The joints of the pelvis loosen up, especially in the final trimester to prepare for the soon-to-be-born baby's journey through the birth canal. The pregnant body is indeed a wondrous well-synced work-in-progress, but like any other complex system, parts of it can fall out of sync. Prenatal chiropractic care can help get the body back on the right track.
Our Approach To Chiropractic Care for Pregnancy in Chesapeake
Our Chesapeake chiropractor, Dr. Eric Santjer, has years of experience helping women alleviate some of the less pleasant side effects of pregnancy. His patients have found that his prenatal care not only relieved joint and muscular aches and pains, but also reduced anxiety and alleviated fleeting bouts of depression. Pregnancy, as wondrous as it may be, puts enormous stress on the body. The steadily increasing amount of pressure it reaps on the spine and pelvic joints can result in either or both losing their alignment. Our individually prescribed chiropractic care for pregnancy, in addition to alleviating the chronic lower back pain that accompanies such misalignment, can also prepare the mother's body for a non-invasive natural birth.
Webster Technique as Part of Our Chesapeake Prenatal Care
The pelvic joints undergo loosening in preparation for birth. However problems may occur if they come out of alignment. A misaligned pelvis can reduce the room the developing baby has in the uterus. This intrauterine constraint, its medical term, can prevent the baby from assuming the position (s)he will need to be in if (s)he is to move through the birth canal as nature intended. Our Chesapeake chiropractor uses the Webster Technique, a special prenatal care adjustment to help maintain proper pelvic and spinal alignment. In many cases it has prevented the need for Caesarean births resulting from intrauterine constraint.
Are you pregnant? Would you like to know more about prenatal chiropractic and prenatal massage therapy?