Prenatal Chiropractic

Pregnancy is an incomparable experience filled with joy and hope, but it can have significant effects on your body. Repair Recover Restore (R3) in White Plains and Port Chester, New York, offers prenatal chiropractic care to help women flourish during pregnancy. The team uses gentle physical medicine techniques to reduce back and joint pain and help you manage pregnancy and birth successfully. Call your nearest Repair Recover Restore office to learn more about prenatal chiropractic or schedule an appointment online today.

What is prenatal chiropractic?

Prenatal chiropractic provides specialized treatment for women experiencing back pain and other musculoskeletal problems during pregnancy.

You naturally gain weight as your pregnancy progresses, so your body must rebalance itself. This can increase strain on your spine, joints, and muscles. In addition, the growing baby’s weight centers on your abdomen, further increasing pelvic pressure.

These effects worsen over the nine months of pregnancy, causing an increase in spinal curvature as well as straining your back and joints. While slight, the increased curvature can cause noticeable back pain.

Discomfort will likely increase as your baby grows. By your last trimester, the extra weight, coupled with your baby taking up so much abdominal space, can result in cramping and digestive troubles, in addition to back pain.

How does prenatal chiropractic help?

Prenatal chiropractic helps to ease backache, joint pain, and abdominal discomfort without medications.

Most medicines aren’t suitable for pregnant women, so if you’re in pain, you often have to bear it as best you can. Prenatal chiropractic eases your discomfort safely, helping you feel better without risking medication side effects.

Research also indicates that many women receiving chiropractic treatment during pregnancy have less need for painkillers during childbirth and shorter labor. Chiropractic can sometimes help with breech births, where the baby is positioned feet first rather than head first.

What kind of prenatal chiropractic treatments might I need?

The chiropractic treatment you require during pregnancy depends on the problems you experience and whether you have other musculoskeletal conditions. The Repair Recover Restore team assesses your needs during your consultation and creates a personalized treatment plan for you.

They use appropriate hands-on techniques or a chiropractic instrument to make pain-free adjustments if they find any misalignments during your physical exam. Your provider uses exceptionally gentle techniques to perform prenatal chiropractic treatment, taking the greatest care of you and your baby.

Attending regular prenatal chiropractic sessions ensures your pregnancy experience is more pleasurable and makes birth easier. Your provider can also help with problems that arise after the birth, like postnatal aches and pains and postpartum depression.

Call Repair Recover Restore for more information about prenatal chiropractic’s benefits, or book an appointment online today.