How can chiropractic care help people to recover after vaginal birth?

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Dr. Gabrielle Manto, DC · Answer

The question is how can chiropractic care help people recover after a vaginal birth? Great question. So birth is a tremendous feat no matter how you birth your baby, whether it was vaginal, belly or c-section birth, whether it was filled with intervention or with no intervention. Birth is still a tremendous feat and it is a trauma. And so we as chiropractors need to figure out, okay, how can we increase adaptability so that you can handle this new phase of life because there's a lot that happens. One, yes, the physical act of birthing your baby, but also there are brain changes that happen to meet the needs of your new baby, a lot of hormonal changes, just a lot going on. And then also, you know, tending to your human and then healing and then tending to other siblings, potentially going back to work. It's a lot. So what the adjustment does is it helps to stimulate the nerves, especially around the pelvis and tailbone, so that the brain can properly communicate all these organ systems, so that healing can occur at a faster and more efficient rate. Because once we take care of the nervous system, which is our foundational system of the body, this is when everything else falls into place. And then we're also looking at resiliency and this is how we objectively measure resiliency is through heart rate variability. And so we're able to track this along your postpartum journey. And what research shows is that when we have a higher heart rate variability, that shows more resiliency, more adaptability, increase in recovery, and overall healing too. So we're looking subjectively and objectively and that's just a way that you can recover with chiropractic.

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