Pregnancy
Congratulations! What a very exciting, if not a little daunting time for you.
Your body will be going through changes on a daily basis, this is reflected in a complete change of posture especially for your low back joints and this is often associated with low back pain or pubic pain through the pregnancy. This tends to worsen as you progress through the months. Chiropractic is a gentle, safe and effective way of treating acute or chronic low back pain, especially helping your pelvic joint alignment for delivery. All techniques are adapted for the pregnant state, making them safe and comfortable for mum and baby.
Pain relief techniques for labour can also be taught and partners are very welcome to attend a session and learn these.
Newborns
After the baby is born it is so important to have a thorough spinal check-up within the first 6 weeks of life. Birth can be very traumatic for the baby, being on the inside of every contraction can have some very negative effects on the function of the babies immature spine and nervous system. At the first session we take a full medical history and do a full chiropractic assessment of the bones of the spine, and if necessary extending the examination to the limb range of movements.
Any force applied is no more than you would apply to your eye ball and some babies sleep through the examination.
Children
We have all been educated into the benefits of dental check-ups and dental hygiene and yet no one has taken the time to educate parents into understanding the effects nerve interference can have on a child's developing nervous system; the same system that is trying to monitor and control every cell in your body every moment of every day. If that system is placed under stress it can show imbalance and failure in areas and these are detectable and treatable.
Chiropractic care of children is a specialist area and requires expert knowledge that said all children should have available a check-up. This approach allows our children to grow out of not into their problems. By 18 years old we have the spine, posture and joint function we will live with for the rest of our lives. Changes are more challenging after that point. It would be like eating sugar for 18 years, never cleaning your teeth or visiting a dentist and then being forced through pain to seek help only to discover the terrible state your teeth are in and that help is limited, painful and expensive.
Prevention is better than cure and there is no age group this is truer for than children.
Call 0207 731 3737 and make an appointment for you, your baby or child.
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