Pregnancy and Chiropractic
More Than Just Back Pain: Chiropractic Care for Pregnancy
Pregnancy is incredible — but let’s be real, it’s not always easy on your body. While back pain is one of the most common complaints, it’s really just the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much more happening beneath the surface that affects how you feel every day.
From the moment pregnancy begins, your hormones shift dramatically — especially one called Relaxin. This powerful hormone helps your body prepare for birth by loosening the ligaments in your pelvis. Sounds helpful, right? It is — but when those ligaments get too relaxed, it can throw off your body’s balance, posture, and ability to move comfortably. Cue the low back pain, pelvic pressure, hip tension, and even issues with walking or sleeping.
As your belly grows, your center of gravity shifts and your spine has to work overtime to adapt. That’s where we come in.
Gentle, Safe Support for You and Baby
Dr. Tom Bench is one of just four chiropractors in Idaho trained in specialized techniques to support the pregnant pelvis. Using gentle, non-invasive adjustments — with no cracking or twisting — we help stabilize and realign your pelvis so your body can move and function the way it was designed to.
Our care helps:
– Set a healthy tone + function of both you and your baby’s nervous system
– Improve your sleep and mobility
– Support baby’s ideal positioning for growth + birth
– Create optimal conditions for development and change
Pregnancy is powerful. With the right support, it can feel empowering, too. We’re here to walk with you every step of the way — so you can carry confidently, deliver smoothly, and recover more quickly.
Dr. Bench is one of four Chiropractors in the state trained in techniques to help stabilize the pelvis! This makes Evolution Chiropractic a perfect place for expecting women. The technique is gentle and safe for both mom and baby, and involves allowing the pelvis to return to a proper position without quick movements or twisting motions.
How does Chiropractic help your unborn child?
Excerpt from www.pxdocs.com, full article here.
“While it would take an entire book to break down the exact neurodevelopmental and neurosensory issues that arise from this one thing, I’ll do my best to summarize it in this section.
Simply put, the bones of the skull, upper neck, and entire spine are vastly more important than most know. They are not just there for structure, they are there to house and protect the most important aspect of our health — the central and autonomic nervous system.
When these areas are physically injured and altered during the birth process, their function is altered from the very first moments of life on.
Those vital functions that this area is in charge of include:
- Control nerves and muscles responsible for breastfeeding
- Control nerves and muscles responsible for digestion
- Control nerves and muscles responsible for draining fluid from the ears, sinuses, etc.
- Control and regulate our immune system and inflammatory cascade
- Control and regulate all sensory processing — eyes, auditory, smell, touch, etc.
- Control and regulate our motor development, milestones, tone, balance, coordination, etc.
- Control speech development and function
- Control and regulate all initial brain communication and coordination — social, emotional, behavioral, memory, decision-making, etc.
What is the one crucial nerve that connects and tethers all those vital functions together? Something called the Vagus Nerve.
To simplify all of this for you, once that brainstem area is injured, it sets in motion a condition that truly will explain so many of your child’s struggles all in one place — dysautonomia.”