An Imbalance In Pregnancy
Could chiropractic care help infertile women become pregnant?

There are many causes of infertility. In 40 percent of the cases, the male partner is responsible for the infertility while the female partner is accountable for the other 40 percent of the cases. Twenty percent of the cases remain inexplicable.
The chiropractic approach focuses on function. What controls function in the body? The nervous system. If you cut yourself, who makes new skin, your body or the Band-Aid? Your body. The nervous system controls all functions of the body automatically. Therefore, if something happened to interfere with your nervous system it would cause a dysfunction in an area of your body and a decrease in your health.
A subluxation is a spinal malfunction, which produces nerve interference. Every level of the spine can be related to fertility function. Most would make the correlation that a subluxation of the lumbar (low back) spine, which directly affects the nerves going to the ovary and prostate could cause a dysfunction. Yet, subluxation of the cervical spine (neck) can also potentially alter the function of the pituitary, which can have a significant impact on the reproductive system.
How does someone know if they have a subluxation? It would be great if a light went off on the top of our heads indicating a problem. However, 80 percent of the time a person is not able to tell. You certainly can’t tell by whether you have pain or not. Only chiropractic doctors are licensed and trained to detect subluxations by palpation of your spine. In addition, we now have state-of-the-art technology, which objectively helps to detect subluxations. It is non-invasive, accurate and quick. The surface electromyography scan measures how well the nerves are working by reading the amount of current found in your muscles. Subluxations disturb the function of the nerves causing an abnormal amount of electrical current flowing to your muscles indicated by colors and asymmetry.
The thermal scan reads our body temperature, which in turn measures the ANS (autonomic nervous system), which controls our eyes, lungs, all the blood vessels, glands and organs in the body. If your body temperature is 98.6¡, the left and right sides of your spine should also be the same temperature. When the communication between the nervous system and the blood vessels is disturbed, it causes the body’s thermostat to malfunction producing an imbalanced temperature reading along the spine.
Not every cause of infertility is going to respond to chiropractic adjustment. However, if every woman who had difficulty getting pregnant was first checked for subluxation before they underwent the extreme costs of traditional infertility treatment, a large percentage would be successful in becoming pregnant.
Imagine how much grief, stress and interpersonal pressure between couples could be eliminated, never mind the financial savings to couples. Chiropractic care can offer hope with no side effects except improved health.
Dr. Ronit Vilan is a Board-certified pediatric chiropractor specializing in the care of pregnant women and children. She is 1 of only 4 Board-certified pediatric chiropractors in NY. She has offices at 210-15 Northern Blvd., Bayside and 3 Candor Drive, Woodbury ; and can be reached at (718)279-9485 and (516) 677-0411or log onto www.fertilitychiro.com.