How can chiropractic help with the hormonal and physical changes during this period?
Pregnancy is clearly a time of great changes, both physical and chemical, in the body of a woman. This does not only affect your weight or alteration of its gravity field, but your spine becomes more flexible with the production of relaxin, a hormone released by ovaries and whose role is to relax the pelvic ligaments to prepare for the delivery.
If there is already an imbalance, relaxin may increase the discomfort that most subluxations are formed and weaken the nervous system. Chiropractic helps to develop these changes as easy it could be, inhibition of vomiting, relief from common problems to this period such as sciatica, pinched discomfort in groins, cramps, headaches…