Chiropractor treating a pregnant woman's neck and back.

Specialized Pregnancy Chiropractic Care in Seymour, TN

Pregnancy is a beautiful journey full of excitement, emotions, physical changes, hormonal changes, life changes, stress changes, and tons of things no one told you about! Welcome to motherhood! Those changes can also place new demands on your body. Your nervous system is now responsible for building your baby's nervous system. As early as the third week of gestation, your baby's neural tube forms which is the beginning of their brain and nervous system. This process, called neurulation, reaches completion by the end of the fourth week. Your baby now reacts and responds to (feels) all of your stress.

While your baby grows, your nervous system, balance, joints, muscles, and posture are constantly adapting. Prenatal chiropractic care can provide gentle, individualized support to help your body navigate these changes and prepare for labor and delivery while keeping you feeling comfortable, confident, and thriving throughout your pregnancy and into postpartum.

Why Neurologically-Focused Chiropractic?

Your brain is the communication and control center of your body. Your nervous system is the pathway your brain utilizes to communicate with the body and the body back to the brain. It coordinates movement, balance, sensation, internal organ/bodily functions, hormone production and secretion, homeostasis and the way your body responds to its environment.

During pregnancy, your changing center of gravity, posture, and biomechanics can create additional stress on your nervous and musculoskeletal system. This not only affects you but your baby as well. If you're feeling tight and stuck, baby is feeling squeezed and stuck too resulting in malpositioning. These nervous system imbalances (a.k.a. subluxations) can effect labor/delivery and increase labor time and birth interventions (i.e. Pitocin, epidural, manual assistance, episiotomy, vacuum extraction, forceps, c-section). You can learn more through Clinical Case Studies.

Our neurologically-focused approach analyzes how your brain and body are communicating and working together. Rather than simply focusing on where you feel discomfort, we assess your overall movement and neurological patterns to provide care for you and your individual needs. We have adjusting tables and pillows specifically designed for pregnancy that allow for comfortable, stress-reducing adjustments.

Webster Technique: Specialized Care for a Stronger, More Supported Pregnancy

The Webster Technique is a gentle chiropractic technique specifically designed to support moms throughout pregnancy as their bodies grow and change. Using gentle adjustments and soft-tissue techniques, it focuses on the pelvis and surrounding muscles and ligaments to help reduce tension, improve mobility, optimize baby's space in utero, and support proper pelvic function. As pregnancy progresses, moms may experience increased pressure, lower-back or hip discomfort, and changes in posture and movement. Dr. Brandon has received specialized training in the Webster Technique, giving him additional education in the unique physical and biomechanical changes that occur throughout pregnancy. This specialized training is important because pregnancy requires a thoughtful, gentle approach that considers the mom’s comfort, changing anatomy, and individual needs. Webster Technique can be a comfortable, supportive option to help moms feel more at ease in their changing bodies and maintain proper mobility throughout pregnancy.

Every pregnancy is different, and your chiropractic care should be too. We take the time to understand your individual needs, stage of pregnancy, and goals. Our approach is gentle, personalized, and focused on helping you feel supported as your body changes. From the early stages of pregnancy through the final weeks and into postpartum, our goal is to help you maintain healthy movement, neurological function, optimize baby's movement/positioning, and prepare your body for labor and delivery while giving you a place to feel heard, nurtured, and supported throughout your pregnancy journey and beyond.

Results That Matter

Healthy nervous system function
Optimize baby's movement/positioning in utero
Healthy stress response
Pelvic and lower-back mobility
Optimize pelvic and neurological function for labor and delivery
Overall comfort and body awareness
Decrease labor time
Fewer birth interventions
Shorter postpartum healing time