From the
April 1, 2007 issue of the Monterey Herald in California comes an article with
a story of a woman who was having trouble with her pregnancy. Jennifer
Hernandez was 36 years of age, and 32 weeks pregnant when her obstetrician told
her she was facing a Caesarean delivery because the baby in her womb was in a
high-risk position.
Hernandez's obstetrician performed an ultrasound which showed that
her baby was 180 degrees from the normal head-down position for birth. With
this news and wanting to avoid a possible C-section, she then sought the
services of Dr. Anne Lundquist, a prenatal chiropractor certified since 2001 in
the Webster In-Utero Constraint Technique.
Hernandez reported her reaction after starting chiropractic care,
"I felt a great relief after the first adjustment." The article then
noted that after two sessions with Dr. Lundquist, a new ultrasound showed the
baby was in the proper head-down position. "Immediately after the first
treatment I felt he moved," Hernandez said.
Dr. Jeanne Ohm, a chiropractor and executive coordinator of the
Philadelphia-based International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, the
organization that certifies chiropractors in the technique, described the
technique by saying, "It reduces interference to the nervous system,
balances out pelvic muscles and ligaments, which in turn removes torsion to the
uterus. It allows the baby to get into the best possible position for
birth."
Dr. Ohm, who has 25 years of chiropractic experience and 10 at
teaching the "Webster" technique noted that the technique doesn't
involve any risk. However, the article did note that the success rate drops if
the patients have passed the 34-week mark of their pregnancies.
Source: www.ChiropracticResearch.org
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