Walnut Creek Chiropractor
for Breech Baby
Elon Bartlett is a Walnut Creek chiropractor for breech babies who customizes every visit to suit your particular needs. Dr Bartlett will evaluate your structure to determine the correct way to implement the Webster Technique to improve your biomechanics, giving your breech baby the best chance to turn into the optimum position for birth.
The common goal of chiropractic services is to help you get out of pain, feel relaxed, and increase your level of health and vitality. Acorn Wellness Center serves the East Bay from their location in Walnut Creek, California. Dr Bartlett is one of Walnut Creek’s top-rated chiropractors, and has been specializing as a chiropractor for breech babies since 2001, making him one of the Bay Area’s most experienced prenatal chiropractors as well.
What is Breech Presentation?
The way that we sit, stand, and walk all contribute to imbalances in our posture, and pelvic misalignment causes tightening and torsion of pelvic muscles and ligaments. It is these tense muscles and ligaments and their constraining effect on the uterus which can prevent the baby from comfortably assuming the best possible position for birth.
The Webster Technique is defined as a specific chiropractic analysis and adjustment that reduces interference to the nerve system and facilitates biomechanical balance in pelvic structures. This has been shown to reduce the effects of intrauterine constraint, allowing the baby to get into the best possible position for birth.
Dr. Larry Webster, founder of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) developed this technique as a safe means to restore proper pelvic balance and function for pregnant mothers. In expectant mothers presenting breech, there has been a high reported success rate of the baby turning to the normal vertex position. This technique has been successfully used in women whose babies present “posterior” or “Sunny Side Up” as well. It has also been successfully used with twins. In no way should this technique be interpreted as an obstetric, “breech turning” technique.
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The ICPA (International Chiropractic Pediatric Association) recognizes that in the care of pregnant women, sacral subluxation may contribute to difficult labor for the mother (i.e. dystocia). Dystocia is caused by inadequate uterine function, pelvic contraction, and baby malpresentation (breech). The correction of sacral subluxation may have a positive effect on all of these causes of dystocia.
In this clinical framework, it is proposed that sacral misalignment may contribute to these three primary causes of dystocia via uterine nerve interference, pelvic misalignment, and the tightening and torsion of specific pelvic muscles and ligaments. The resulting tense muscles and ligaments and their aberrant effect on the uterus may prevent the baby from comfortably assuming the best possible position for birth.