Chiropractic Care in Newborns: Benefits and Precautions
At the Chiropractic Center Marc Bony in Mataró, we understand the importance of a healthy start. Chiropractic care for newborns offers a natural approach to ensure optimal development from their first days.
Chiropractic care for newborns
The decision to start a family, or to expand yours, is probably the most significant one you will make in life – and it involves a highly demanding process for many. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a simple and continuous treatment to ease your path to motherhood? In this article, we will explain how chiropractic care can help you during each phase of the process:
• conception (fertility)
• pregnancy
• childbirth
• postnatal (mother and baby)
Can chiropractic care really offer advantages for fertility?
The world is flooded with information about “miracle cures” for fertility, but the benefits of chiropractic care in enhancing female female fertility and overcoming infertility are anything but bland: there are clinical testimonials from women who have overcome infertility to become pregnant. An invasive hormone treatment can cause serious side effects and trauma – chiropractic care represents a natural treatment that optimizes your nervous function. Testimony from Marta
And how does that help me get pregnant?
Well, your nervous functions are essential for your well-being, and your spine plays the role of transmitter of impulses between the brain and the organs. For one of several reasons – such as stress, physical wear, or awkward movements – subluxations (displacements) occur in the spine, thus altering nervous function. Chiropractic care restores it, optimizes your mobility, and your sense of well-being. Moreover, it helps improve the flow of vital hormones for reproduction.
What advantages does chiropractic care offer me during pregnancy?
It is best to answer this question through the intrinsic philosophy of chiropractic – innate intelligence. This intelligence is not taught: rather, it is congenital and responsible for creating what our body needs for its proper function and to provide it with the necessary properties to heal itself. When a subluxation occurs, a chiropractor adjusts your spine so that innate intelligence can come into play – corrects nervous function and eliminates diseases and pains. Naturally, this provides significantly improved well-being for the mother and less risk of postnatal trauma.
What symptoms can chiropractic care cure or at least alleviate?
Have you perhaps resigned yourself to the fact that there will be a few demanding moments during the next 9 months – like hormonal chaos, frequent nausea attacks, lower back pain, swollen ankles, and high blood pressure – right? Don’t throw in the towel. Chiropractic care can help alleviate common symptoms during pregnancy.
How can that be?
It all comes down to subluxations – or displacements – and their elimination. They are common among pregnant women and cause brain tension, nerve tension, and imbalances in the body that tries to compensate by adjusting postures, which subjects your bones and muscles to more pressure. Chiropractic care will eliminate these displacements and optimize nervous and bone functions – as a result, it will provide you with many health advantages, such as: improving pelvic function and organs by eliminating lower back pain and a more advantageous birthing position.
Can chiropractic care speed up and ease childbirth?
Yes, and you should really start considering the idea of receiving chiropractic care if your priority is a less demanding and easier childbirth. The possibility of a natural birth will increase with chiropractic treatment – there are quite a few published cases about the reduction of labor duration from several days to just a few hours (or less) through chiropractic care and treatment of dystocia (abnormal birth).
How does chiropractic care provide these advantages?
Think of innate intelligence – the way your brain communicates with your body to control nervous and organ functions. The displacements in the spine that arise during pregnancy seriously harm your gravity, posture, back, pelvis, legs, and ankles.
Chiropractic care eliminates these structural damages and allows both your innate intelligence and that of your baby to act, thus optimizing nervous and brain functions and pelvic and spinal movements. In summary, your baby will have an optimal birthing position and healthier development of the nervous and neuromuscular systems.
Keep in mind that during pregnancy, the postures that the mother adopts can cause, or at least increase the risk of obstetric trauma. The extraction of the baby during childbirth equates to a force of 20kg – 50kg in the case of a cesarean section, so maintaining proper spinal alignment is crucial to avoid these traumas and for a calm birth.
Are there other postnatal advantages for me and my baby that chiropractic care can offer?
First of all, the advantages gained through chiropractic care during pregnancy will limit the risks of postnatal trauma and diseases. However, birth traumas can occur throughout life – although most cases happen during the birth itself.
A chiropractor can detect these subluxations (displacements in the spine, brainstem injuries, etc.) shortly after the baby is born and therefore corrects or adjusts the spinal alignment so that innate intelligence can act – thus optimizing communication between the nerves, the brain, and the organs.
Moreover, chiropractic care is essential in diseases such as scoliosis – a displacement at the base of the skull that causes curvatures in the spine. Scoliosis results in asymmetric development of the spine in girls and of the mind in boys (hyperactivity). A chiropractor will correct these displacements (subluxations), thus restoring spinal structure and life within the body.
In summary:
Chiropractic care offers the following health advantages:
– increases fertility and helps overcome infertility
– alleviates or cures common symptoms during pregnancy
– ensures a smoother birth and increases the chances of a natural birth
– prevents and eliminates trauma associated with childbirth (birth)
Sources and references:
CBS New York – chiropractic and fertility research
International Chiropractic Paediatric Association – overcoming infertility
Birth Without Fear – chiropractic benefits during pregnancy
US National Library of Medicine – chiropractic care for low back pain in pregnancy
US National Library of Medicine – chiropractic care for natural birth
International Chiropractic Paediatric Association – reducing labour times
US National Library of Medicine – chiropractic care and scoliosis
