“Watch and wait” approach. Unfortunately, many pregnant women believe this is their only option to dealing with their aches and pains during pregnancy. Many pregnant women (up to 80%!) suffer from pregnancy related muscle symptoms, which are mostly due to the rapid changes to their bodies in 9 months. Unfortunately, to keep your baby safe, it isn’t necessarily possible to take medication to help control these symptoms. Chiropractic care is a safe, and effective alternative to treat pregnancy related symptoms in a natural way.

According to the literature, after treatment for 1 week, 2% of recruited pregnant mom’s experienced improvement to their low back pain. After 1 month of chiropractic treatment, 70% of recruited moms felt improvement, by 3 months 85% felt improvement and by 6 months, 90% felt improvement to their symptoms.

Besides improving PAIN, chiropractic treatment was also shown to improve FUNCTION in pregnant women. Function is the ability to do things that you normally do. For example, after chiropractic care, pregnant women after were better able to sit, stand and travel in a care for longer distances. Life doesn’t simply stop once you become pregnant!

 

References

Outcomes of pregnant patients with low back pain undergoing chiropractic treatment: a prospective cohort study with short term, medium term and 1 year follow-up. Peterson, K. C., Muhlemann, D., Humphreys, B. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies201422:15.  DOI: 10.1186/2045-709X-22-15. 

Chiropractic Management of Pregnancy-Related Lumbopelvic Pain: A Case Study.Bernard, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcm.2016.04.003