Back Pain During Pregnancy With CSC’s Prenatal & Postnatal Care

Learn home care, prevention, and the dos & don’ts. Visit Chiropractic Specialty Center® today to get the best treatment for back pain during pregnancy. Get treated at our award-winning center today. CSC’s specialized chiropractic treatment for new and expecting mothers is highly effective. Best of all, it is safe for mother and baby.

Back Pain During Pregnancy: You Are Not Alone, We Can Help

According to research published by the University of Michigan, nearly half of expecting mothers complain of severe back pain during pregnancy. However, a published study in the Spine Journal reported back pain during pregnancy impacts 76% of expecting mothers.

Back pain during pregnancy is the result of many factors. Factors such as body weight changes and the center of gravity, and hormonal issues are critical factors in developing back pain during pregnancy. If you are pregnant or planning to start a family, this article is for you.

Low back pain is a feeling of uneasiness or discomfort along the mid or lower portions of your spine. Often, sufferers complain of radiating pain in the tailbone, buttocks, hips, thighs, and legs. Some may even report numbness, tingling, or a burning sensation in their spine or legs. Most mothers complain of some weaknesses in their affected limbs.

Regardless of location or severity, back pain during pregnancy is an issue that must be addressed holistically, without medication or injections. Chiropractic Specialty Center® in Kuala Lumpur offers the most holistic prenatal and postnatal care for new and expecting mothers, which we have covered in the next section below:

Best Prenatal & Postnatal Care (Postpartum Care) In Kuala Lumpur

Chiropractic and physiotherapy are two of the best professionals for getting over neck pain, back pain, joint pain, and sports injuries. Prenatal and postnatal chiropractic or physiotherapy are specialized forms of physiotherapy and chiropractic requiring a distinct set of skills and knowledge. In other words, you need a chiropractor or a physiotherapist who is extremely versed in postnatal and prenatal care, and that is where we come in.

Chiropractic Specialty Center® (CSC) provides prenatal chiropractic, postnatal chiropractic, prenatal physiotherapy, and postnatal exercises for pregnant mothers through advanced methods that target the cause of pregnancy aches and pain. CSC’s clinical team of chiropractors and physiotherapists has been treating pregnancy aches and pains for over 15-years in Kuala Lumpur. Our focused and customized postpartum or postnatal care methods have helped thousands recover from debilitating back pain and sciatica. But what is even more essential is our prenatal care.

Our prenatal physiotherapy and chiropractic treatments are safe and gentle. The goal with prenatal physiotherapy and chiropractic combined is to identify, fix and repair weak and painful areas. Our prenatal physiotherapy and prenatal chiropractic are through advanced mythologies to delivers faster results. Almost all our pregnant patients in pain find relief on the first session. Please don’t delay, call our main center to enquire about our prenatal and postnatal care today on 03 2093 1000.

Prenatal Chiropractic Combined With Prenatal Physiotherapy

The best, safest, and most effective way to beat back pain during pregnancy is through the combined efforts of our chiropractors and physiotherapists. Prenatal chiropractic combined with prenatal physiotherapy is better at Chiropractic Specialty Center® in Kuala Lumpur.

Prenatal chiropractic combined with physiotherapy is a great way to ensure a smooth and painless pregnancy. Even more important is that it can effectively get rid of your back pain during pregnancy. So If you are pregnant and in pain, we can help. But, as the saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” As such, we highly encourage all pregnant mothers to opt for our prenatal chiropractic and physiotherapy treatment program before the 4^th month of pregnancy.

Prenatal chiropractic combined with our prenatal physiotherapy will enable you to get chiropractic benefits combined with physiotherapy. The prenatal chiropractic treatment at our centers is highly specialized and provided through the activator methods of chiropractic. The activator method is the best method for prenatal or postnatal chiropractic care. There is no pushing or twisting, making the activator the best technique in prenatal and postnatal care.

What Are Some Physical Changes During Pregnancy & How Prenatal Chiropractic Can Help

Pregnancy comes with lots of physical and hormonal changes. These changes are natural and are needed to prepare the body for the delivery of the fetus. However, 50% of expecting mothers are unable to cope with the physical changes. The main reason for this inability is our modern daily life. Our modern life has led to decreased physical activity. We sit too much, and when we sit, we sit for prolonged periods! All that sitting has led to weakness in our core and spinal muscles. Generally speaking, mildly weakened core and spinal muscles may not cause symptoms. During pregnancy, these issues come to the surface with revenge, causing pain of varying degrees.

Our prenatal and postnatal care gives you the ability to stay ahead of the harmful impact of changes your body goes through during pregnancy. Our clinical teams of chiropractors and physiotherapists will assess your spine to identify weaknesses or issues. We will then start working on the problems we discovered. The advantage we have over competing centers is our experience, technology, and proven methods.

The Natural Pregnancy Changes Are Key Factors In Pain

Besides the apparent increase in body weight, there will change in physical loading and hormonal changes. For more comfortable childbirth, the body will release more Relaxin. This hormone helps to increase ligament laxity. Relaxin is a hormone found in men and women. The letdown in men is from the prostate gland. And as such, Relaxin in men is detected in the seminal fluids.

In non-pregnant women, the ovaries secrete the relaxin hormone. In pregnant women, the ovaries, as well as the placenta, secrete the relaxin hormone. The combined effects from the two sources are another factor why pregnant women need to be aware of the relaxin hormone.

In females, the relaxin hormone is secreted into the circulation. In men, it is found in the seminal fluids and not in circulation. The most critical point is that during pregnancy, the placenta secretes it in large amounts. So, in females, there are two sources: the ovaries and the placenta. When the placenta releases the relaxin hormone, significant quantities of the hormone enter the blood circulation. The increased presence of relaxin in the blood is the critical factor in back pain during pregnancy. Thus, the importance of Relaxin-induced joint pain or back pain during pregnancy.

The Relaxin Hormone In Females

As secreted during pregnancy, relaxin in circulation impacts ligaments, tendons, and muscles throughout the body. The highest concentration of the relaxin hormone is in the pelvic regions of an expecting mother. The abundance of the relaxin hormone in the pelvic area is critical to preparing the body for childbirth. Without Relaxin, the pelvis will not widen, making the birth of your child an impossible task!

The Relaxin hormone is still not well understood. There needs to be further research on its importance and role, especially during pregnancy. As mentioned, it is a hormone released by both males and females. In females, relaxin is released during the reproductive cycle and pregnancy. The ovaries release this hormone during the reproductive period, while the placenta releases it during pregnancy.

During the reproductive cycle, Relaxin is released by the corpus luteum in the ovary. The levels of Relaxin are said to rise in the circulation during ovulation. Ovulation occurs in the second half of the menstrual cycle. During ovulation, relaxin prevents uterine contractions by relaxing the uterus wall. The relaxation of the uterus wall is said to prepare the lining of the uterus for pregnancy. However, if pregnancy does not occur, the hormone levels return to normal levels again.

Understanding The Pelvis, Childbirth & Common Pregnancy Pain

To understand the events leading to back pain in pregnancy, one must thoroughly understand the pelvis, the Relaxin hormone, and childbirth. Without a firm grasp of these essential structures, events, and hormones, back pain treatment in pregnancy becomes a daunting task.

The clinical teams at the Chiropractic Specialty Center® offer unparalleled research-based non-invasive spine and joint care for pregnancy pain from top-rated team of physiotherapists and chiropractors in KL

Our firm understanding of health issues and their root causes enables us to provide you with exceptional world-class spine and joint care. It is also the main reason why we succeed when others have failed. When it comes to back pain and pregnancy, we better understand the root causes than the rest. Let us explore the link between the pelvis, back pain, the Relaxin hormone, and pregnancy without further delay.

Research On Relaxin Hormone & The Expecting Mother’s Painful Back

The Relaxin hormone is a peptide that is much like insulin. This is why the level varies from individual to individual. Some have many higher levels compared to others, and some do not have sufficient levels. Unfortunately, there is no established protocol to evaluate the levels of Relaxin in expecting mothers to date.  Additional benefits of monitoring the Relaxin hormone levels during pregnancy could offer a window into the process of childbirth. Those with higher Relaxin levels in circulation will undoubtedly have a more natural delivery than those with minimal levels. Monitoring of the Relaxin hormone during pregnancy can help with patient education and restriction.

According to a well-researched article published in The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Relaxin hormone levels progressively increase during pregnancy. Another research published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reports the Relaxin hormone is critical in developing back pain development pain during the late pregnancy stages. In this research, Shah et al. reports; One of the causes of back pain during pregnancy is increased motion in the pelvis due to the laxity of ligaments caused by hormonal influences (Relaxin & estrogen).

Both of the above-published articles reported a progressive increase in Relaxin levels in the blood throughout gestation. The article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics further related that the Relaxin levels drop to normal levels three months post-delivery.

The role of the Relaxin hormone is well established in the development of back pain during pregnancy.

Some researchers have put the numbers of back pain in pregnancy as high as 76%, while most agree that it is closer to 50%. The one thing that most researchers agree on is that those with a prior history of back disorders are at higher risks of developing severe and debilitating back pain during pregnancy.

S/I Joint Pain During Pregnancy & Chiropractic

The two S/I or sacroiliac joints connect the pelvis (ilium) to the spine at the tailbone (sacrum). A S/I joint pain or sacroiliac joint pain is common in pregnant females or patients who have slipped discs, sciatica, scoliosis, and short anatomical leg. S/I pain during pregnancy results from hormonal changes impacting joints, ligaments, tendons, and muscles. The relaxin and progesterone hormones are the two primary hormones that help accommodate the rapidly expanding uterus and the growing baby. Moreover, these two hormones help prepare the hips and pelvis for childbirth.

Pregnancy S/I joint pain often occurs in women who sit for an extended period and those who continue to work during their pregnancy. Women with pre-existing spine issues, scoliosis, or other spine or pelvic-related disorders have higher risks of developing sacroiliac pain during pregnancy.

Chiropractic care during pregnancy is the best means of assuring pain-free pregnancy. Patients with back pain, hip pain, pelvic pain, or sacroiliac pain will significantly benefit from a pregnancy chiropractor. If you have sacroiliac pain during your pregnancy, contact our Bukit Damansara office today and be evaluated by our top chiropractor today.

Chiropractic care at CSC is perfectly safe for all stages of pregnancy. Our chiropractors utilize specialized non-forceful methods that help realign your spine and joint without aggressive movements or popping of the spine, which could result in more harm.

Pregnancy-specific treatments through the Activator methods in chiropractic can eliminate sacroiliac pain faster through gentle realignment of the tailbone and pelvic bones that combines soft tissue mobilization through painless specialized methods of chiropractic combined with physiotherapy.

How To Deal With Sciatica During Pregnancy?

Sciatica refers to pain that runs down the back of the leg along the path of the sciatica nerve. Sciatica is usually a one-sided condition but, in rare cases, can impact both sides. Bulging, herniated, protruded, and prolapsed discs, commonly referred to as “slipped discs” or “slip discs” in the lower back, are the leading cause of sciatica and sciatica nerve pain.

Sciatica during pregnancy is often seen in pregnant females with slipped disc history or a pre-existing back problem. There are instances where otherwise healthy females experience sciatica or sciatica nerve pain for the first time during pregnancy. For some, sciatica during pregnancy causes excruciatingly severe pain, limiting all aspects of life. Regardless of the cause, sciatica is treatable and manageable during pregnancy. The earlier you start a focused therapy or treatment [program for your sciatic nerve pain during pregnancy, the better the outcomes.

What Is The Best Treatment For Sciatica During Pregnancy?

Pregnant females with sciatica should be treated through a conservative measure that includes chiropractic with physiotherapy. However, avoid rotating or twisting therapies, exercises, or treatments for pregnancy and sciatica. The Activator treatment method for pregnant females is the best chiropractic technique for sciatica during pregnancy. Another good technique is Webster’s method.

The Websters technique was first used in the early 1980s. It is a specialized method of manual therapy provided by chiropractors on the round ligament to help stabilize the pelvis. Traditionally, Webster’s plans incorporate the use of Diversified adjustment techniques. The Diversified approach is by twisting and popping the spine, which is a contradiction for pregnancy. Therefore, it might be best to avoid Webster practitioners who use Diversified methods and instead get treated through Activator methods of chiropractic combined with pregnancy-specific physiotherapy and Webster’s manual therapy of the round ligament.

Chiropractic Specialty Center® offers precision, non-painful, safe chiropractic and physiotherapy treatment combined with exercises and Webster’s technique without Diversified for pregnancy sciatica and sciatica nerve pains in all stages of pregnancy. The care we provide is safe for mother and child.

How To Naturally Heal Backache When Pregnant?

Get your back pain relieved by following the following advice:

• Ice your back: The best means of relieving back pain during pregnancy is to Ice your back for 15 minutes every 2-3 hours. Icing will reduce swelling, a common occurrence in all back pain-related conditions during pregnancy. Make sure not to put the ice pack directly on your skin. Ice packs must always be wrapped before application.
• Get treated by our chiropractor and physiotherapists: If icing hasn’t helped or the pain continues to reemerge, you need our help. Chiropractic Specialty Center® in Kuala Lumpur offers postnatal and prenatal chiropractic and physiotherapy treatments. Our prenatal and postnatal treatments are through the combined methods of chiropractic and physiotherapy.  Our treatment for back pain during pregnancy is customized and highly effective. Besides, it is 100% natural and safe. Safe for both babies and mothers. We don’t do the cracking or twisting type of chiropractic treatments for pregnant patients or new mothers at our centers. We use the Activator method, which is more efficient and 100% safe for all.
• Take timeouts and rest:  Avoid standing on your feet for more than 30 minutes. Prolonged standing puts excessive pressure on your spinal discs, spinal joints, and spinal nerves.
• Avoid prolonged sitting or sitting on a cushy couch:  Sitting increases the pressure inside your joints and spinal discs, leading to pain, numbness, and tingling. SItting a cushy couch is even more problematic. If you are pregnant or in pain, avoid a cushy couch. A cushy couch may feel nice, but they are not good for your spine.

Prevention is the best treatment: “An ounce of prevention is better than a Pound-of-Cure!”

When it comes to back pain in pregnancy, the best treatment is prevention. But, if you experience back pain, you must initiate targeted, focused treatment methods at the earliest symptoms. The longer you wait, the worse your prognosis. The critical factor is the Relaxin release during pregnancy, coupled with weight gain. Muscle and ligamentous laxity in the pelvis, spine, and weight-bearing joints are additional factors that lead to back pain.

Weight Gain, Pregnancy & Spine

Weight gain is another key factor. However, weight gain is expected and encouraged during pregnancy. But, for those with weak core and spinal muscles, it leads to instabilities in spinal joints. As your baby grows, it is natural for you to gain weight.

Those gains do impact you, as it changes the center of your gravity. Weight gain during pregnancy occurs at a faster pace past the fourth month of gestation. During the fourth and fifth months, most expecting mothers show signs of back pain or joint pain.

The gravity center change is gradual in the first four months but rapidly progresses after the fifth month. With increased weight, expecting mothers find themselves leading back more, putting more stress on spinal joints and spinal discs. The change in the gravity center, coupled with an increase in Relaxin in circulation, is the turning point for most. As mentioned earlier, Relaxin causes muscles and ligaments to relax. When you couple the relaxation effects of Relaxin with postural changes (changes in the center of gravity), it becomes clear why one develops back pain during pregnancy.

Therefore, we encourage every expecting mother to get into great shape before planning for a family. And, of course, getting help from a clinical team like ours is key to having a healthy and pain-free pregnancy and delivery of your baby.

Pain After the Delivery Of Your Baby

We have talked a lot about back pain during pregnancy a lot. It only fits to focus on back pain after pregnancy. As we repeatedly mentioned throughout this page, Relaxin and postural changes have an important role in back pain during and after pregnancy.

Ligamentous laxity (excessive relaxation of ligaments or loss of tone) always leads to joints instability. If a person already has a back injury or minor degeneration, it predisposes them to pain. Pain results from the increased axial loading. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy can place undue stress on your spinal joints. Stressing your spinal joints can further weaken your spine. For most, this pain lingers on, even after pregnancy. Some may also develop a bulging disc or a herniated disc or protruded spinal disc post-delivery. Back pain after pregnancy can occur even if you did not have back pain during pregnancy. The process of delivering a baby is one of the most traumatic events for the mother and the child.

Back pain during pregnancy often involves the L4-L5 segment of the spine. The reason why the L4-L5 segment is the most commonly impacted. The L4-L5 is affected at a higher rate because 95% of all bending and twisting occurs at this segment. To recover from pregnancy back pain or postpartum back pain (back pain after delivery), you will need a highly experienced team that understands causative factors and has the skills, knowledge, and therapy technologies and devices to treat you without surgery or injections effectively.

In short, CSC is your best option! Our methods and systems of holistic non-invasive treatments and therapies will get you better without injections or surgery.

Should you continue with care with us after You have Delivered?

We encourage all our pregnant patients to continue with care, especially at our center, after their childbirth. Our clinical teams are the experts you need. There are none better than us regarding back pain during pregnancy or discomfort after the delivery. Our understanding of this subject and our collaborative methods of treatment are unmatched by others. Visit one of our centers today and discover clinical excellence in chiropractic and physiotherapy.

It is essential when planning for a family to, first and foremost, make sure you are in good health. Strengthen your core and back muscles beforehand. Strengthening of muscles in anticipation of the coming changes will enable your body to cope better. So, take our advice and do not put yourself or your baby’s health in jeopardy. Drop by any of our centers to get a physical examination from any trained and experienced chiropractors & physiotherapists at our chiro-zone & physio-zone today.

Our Targeted Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation & Chiropractic Is Perfect Choice For Healthier Baby & Pregnancy

Before we start this section, we wish to inform everyone that chiropractic and physiotherapy are your best therapy options. Pregnancy is not a contraindication to chiropractic, physiotherapy, or rehabilitation. The only difference is the type of care provided to an expecting mother.

Chiropractors have been treating pregnant patients for over a century. The levels of successful outcomes when it comes to the holistic natural alternative are highest through chiropractic care. However, care must be taken to ensure that the chiropractor you visit is thoroughly knowledgeable and experienced regarding treatments for a patient during pregnancy.

In Our Center, We Utilize A Non-Force Method Of Chiropractic Treatment

The prenatal and postnatal chiropractic treatment we provide is better, customized, safe, and gentle. The chiropractic treatment, or the “Adjustment,” is a painless procedure. In our opinion, the best and most accurate means of chiropractic treatment is through the activator methods. The activator method of chiropractic prenatal and postnatal treatments is the least stressful but most beneficial when correctly used. Our clinical teams of chiropractors utilize the Activator tool to provide patients with a targeted means of prenatal chiropractic treatment.

Our advice to all expecting mothers is to avoid manual or rotatory chiropractic treatments. We recommend avoiding the manual means of care because of the excessive laxity present in expecting mothers and those who recently gave birth. To better understand the type of chiropractic needed during pregnancy (prenatal) & after childbirth (postnatal), please visit CSC’s “chiropractic treatment” page. But if you want to know the best chiropractic treatment method during pregnancy, our answer is the Activator Method of chiropractic treatment.

Our centers utilize manual prenatal and postnatal physiotherapy and treatments rendered through specialized devices for our pregnant patients. Best of all, our physiotherapists and chiropractors work together on each patient. Contact us now and get chiropractic combined with physiotherapy at a CSC near you.  If you are pregnant and in pain, there is no better prenatal or postnatal team of chiropractors or physiotherapists than the one you can find in one of our centers in Malaysia.

Visit us today and get relief from pregnancy pain, including back pain during pregnancy. Back pain during pregnancy is common, but it doesn’t have to be! At CSC, we provide patients with back pain during pregnancy with the best prenatal treatment and exceptional postnatal care after their childbirth in KL; call us now to book your appointment.

FAQ’s on Back Pain During Pregnancy & How To Get Rid Of It Safely?