Pregnant women with abnormal fetal positions may derive benefits from chiropractic care using the Webster Technique. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health-Chiropractic. (icpa4kids.org)
The Webster Technique
Chiropractic care in pregnancy is vital to the normal function of both the mother and baby throughout pregnancy and birth. More women and birth providers are discovering the many benefits associated with chiropractic care in pregnancy and recognize this area of expertise through the Webster Technique.
The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic adjustment protocol with the goal of improving neuro-biomechanical function. This technique involves adjusting the sacrum and SI joint misalignments.
The technique aligns your spine and reduces tension along with the pressure on your pelvic muscles. Through this technique, your pelvic muscles are relaxed and potentially allows your baby more room to move.
ICPA and Webster Certification
Dr. Larry Webster, founder of ICPA, Logan practitioner and Life College instructor, developed the Webster Technique in response to his daughter, Lucinda's birth to her daughter, Shannon. Dr. Webster was present at her long and arduous birth and although he adjusted her during the birth, he felt that chiropractic could have a bigger impact in labor with a more specific approach to the pelvis.
After this personal experience with his daughter’s birth, Dr. Webster strove to develop an adjustment “for laboring women to help with the ease of birth." He felt that there must be a more specific way of addressing subluxations throughout pregnancy that would contribute to safer, easier births for the mother.
True to Dr. Webster’s original intent, the Webster Technique has always been taught in the ICPA Certification Program as a specific sacral analysis and diversified adjustment to be used throughout pregnancy to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation but also for all weight bearing individuals regardless of age or gender.