Infertility and the Chiropractic Link

Infertility and the Chiropractic Link
By Kelly Burgess

The study, which was published in three parts, detailed a number of cases where infertile women undergoing chiropractic care became pregnant. While some of these women went to the chiropractor with a view toward helping their fertility, others went merely to have their spines adjusted but then became pregnant while under chiropractic care.

About 13 years ago, my best friend underwent infertility treatments. Ultimately, she became pregnant via in vitro fertilization (IVF). She and her husband wanted to have more children but knew they couldn't afford the high price of infertility treatments again. It looked as if they would have to stop at one.

About 18 months after the baby was born, her mom talked her into seeing a chiropractor for some ongoing problems with her back. Two months later, shortly after she returned from a long weekend away with her husband, she was startled to discover she was pregnant.  

"This is occurring in practices all over the country, but definitive research includes very specific guidelines, and I wanted to operate and present under those guidelines," says Dr. Madeline Behrendt, an associate editor of JVSR and the chair of the council on women's health for the World Chiropractic Alliance. "The purpose of the study was to start establishing solid evidence for what people in practices have been reporting for a very long time."

What chiropractic does is to correct distortions in the parts of the body where the reproductive organs are located. It seems that doing so can sometimes lead to fertility.

Peristaltic motion is a term that describes muscular function controlled by our autonomous nervous system. If you look at where the uterus is, an egg has to go down a little tube and is propelled via peristaltic motion. If it happens to be fertilized but there is insufficient peristaltic motion, it cannot be delivered to the uterus.

In theory, if this peristaltic motion is so disturbed that it backs up and delivers uterine tissue into the abdominal cavity or onto the ovaries, it can result in endometriosis. He knows of at least five studies where women who were close to being surgical candidates because of endometriosis ultimately found relief in chiropractic care.

This should almost be intuitive knowledge, simply because of the relationship to the placement of the spine and the placement of the reproductive organs.

The nerves to the reproductive system run through the spine, and if there's a distortion, it can affect fertility.

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Richmond Va. 23238