Chiropractic & Pregnancy

Chiropractic helps you prepare your body for birth in a totally safe and natural way. We offer care for expecting mothers wishing to have a smooth and comfortable pregnancy. Chiropractic can help with aches and pains such as back pain and pelvic pain.

Up to 50% of mums to be feeling discomfort at some point before giving birth. During those nine months spent carrying your baby, your body produces higher amounts of relaxin – a hormone which loosens ligaments and joints. This paves the way for baby to exit your body. However, this hormone, combined with your growing belly, can rapidly lower your centre of gravity, affecting spinal health and causing a wide range of aches and pains.

Visiting a chiropractor can go some way to easing the lower back and hip pain you’re experiencing in pregnancy, but did you know it can benefit your baby to be too? If your pelvis is misaligned, there’s less space for your baby to develop, which can cause problems. When this happens, it’s known as intrauterine constraint, and it can lead to birth defects if not treated.

Pediatric Chiropractic Care

All our Chiropractors have completed extra training in paediatric care, and are very experienced in treating children of all ages. The techniques used for children include cranial and extremely gentle adjustments, we find that most children love to be adjusted.

Birth can be a very challenging experience on a baby’s skull (cranium) and spine, which can result in spinal misalignment and high cranial tension. Chiropractic care aims to restore balance and ‘unwind’ tension to improve spinal and cranial function and remove interference to the nervous system (the main control system of the body).