Chiropractic and Pregnancy
Chiropractic care, along with other wellness habits, can help to create an optimum environment for your baby to realize its full potential.
At Schomberg Chiropractic Wellness Centre we use special techniques and equipment that will help make you comfortable no matter what your stage of pregnancy.
Pre-Conception:
Chiropractic care prior to conception promotes a more regular menstrual cycle. It also prepares the body to be strong, supple and balanced to carry the pregnancy.
Pregnancy:
There are few things in life that put more stress on your spine than pregnancy. Your spine must adapt to posture and weight changes with each passing month. Regular chiropractic care during pregnancy helps to maintain balance, alignment and flexibility. Regular chiropractic care is also important for your developing baby. When the growing baby is comfortable it can assume the optimal birthing position.
Labor and Birth:
Mothers who get adjusted often require less high-tech intervention. Many report shorter, less traumatic deliveries.
Chiropractic and Children
Most people recognize the value of chiropractic care for adults. But a properly working spine and nervous system is important for everyone!
Significant spinal trauma can occur at birth. Use of forceps or vacuum extraction can do damage by pulling, forcing, and twisting the baby’s young spine. Even natural births can cause stress to a baby’s spine. Therefore it is important to have a chiropractic checkup for your newborn as soon as possible after birth.
Regular chiropractic checkups are helpful to monitor spinal development as infants support their head, sit upright, learn to crawl, and take their first steps. Many experts believe that uncorrected spinal problems during this early stage of development cause the chronic, hard to correct subluxations seen in adults.
Later, learning ride a bicycle and other childhood activities can cause spinal problems. In addition, many childhood health complaints that are brushed off as “growing pains” can be traced to the spine. Regular chiropractic checkups can identify these problems and help avoid many of the health complaints seen later in adults.
Naturally, chiropractic adjusting procedures are modified to a child’s spine. Most parents report that their children enjoy their chiropractic adjustments and seem healthier than other children.
Chiropractic and the Senior Years
More and more people are consulting chiropractic doctors, especially in their later years. With the growing concerns about over-medication and the side effects of combining various prescription drugs, safe, natural chiropractic care is growing in popularity.
Restoring better spinal function can help improve mobility, vitality, endurance, and appetite. Many patients report improvement with arthritic symptoms and other chronic ailments often associated with the aging process.
The adjusting technique used is modified for maximum comfort and results.
As we get older and wiser, the simplicity and effectiveness of chiropractic care becomes more and more obvious.
