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Chiropractic and Infertility
A study published in the May 2003 issue of the
peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research,
showed a strong link between the resolution of
infertility and the initiation of chiropractic care. The
study consisted of a retrospective review of 14 separate
articles of 15 women suffering with infertility. In each
of these cases chiropractic care was introduced and the
results were documented and published.
The studies followed 15 female subjects ranging in age
from 22 to 65. The prior pregnancy history of these
women revealed 11 of them had never gotten pregnant. Two
of the women had prior successful unassisted
pregnancies. One woman had an assisted pregnancy, while
1 had a history of a miscarriage. In this group 9 women
had previous treatment for infertility before starting
chiropractic and 4 were actually undergoing infertility
treatment when they started chiropractic care.
The study noted the huge expense of infertility
treatment options currently used by many couples noting
the range of expenses can easily go into the thousands.
The article also noted that in vitro fertilization has
shown evidence of long term risks. A study published in
November 2002 in the online version of the American
Journal of Human Genetics reported that “babies
conceived by in vitro fertilization may be at increased
risk for a rare genetic disorder that predisposes them
to cancer”.
The chiropractic care rendered to the women listed in
this study was from a variety of chiropractors using a
variety of techniques. The focus of the care in these
cases was correction of vertebral subluxations. The
research article defined Subluxation by using the agreed
definition of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges.
Subluxation, as defined by the Association of
Chiropractic Colleges, is a “complex of functional and /
or structural and / or pathological articular changes
that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ
system function and general health". The study noted
that all of the women in these studies, who were
struggling with infertility, had evidence of nerve
system interference, as detected by the presence of
subluxations.
The results of these individual case studies showed that
even though many of these women had tried unsuccessfully
for some time to become pregnant, all of the women in
this study eventually became pregnant somewhere between
2 months and 20 months of the onset of chiropractic
care. One of the case studies was summed up by the
author, Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock, DC, DICCP, "Although
chiropractic care is not a treatment for infertility, it
is postulated that improvement of spinal neural
integrity through specific chiropractic adjustments may
have contributed to improved homeostasis and
physiological adaptation thus allowing the body to
express a greater level of health as an outcome." |
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