Pregnancy, a time of beautiful transformation, can often feel like a jumbled choreography of hormonal shifts, physical changes, and emotional highs and lows.

But fear not! Just as a skilled dancer learns to move with poise, you too can glide through the stages of motherhood with ease, armed with the secret weapon of physiotherapy!

Let’s start with this simple statistic: women who receive prenatal chiropractic care experience labor times that are 25% to 31% shorter. That’s enough of an incentive for many women, amiright?! But we won’t stop there. Keep reading to learn about the many benefits of seeing a chiropractor throughout your pregnancy.

As a Nurse Practitioner Shasta Zeeman provides primary healthcare services that care for both you and your family. I can provide prenatal care for pregnant women up until delivery and then immediately postpartum & beyond. I hope to create relationships that last a lifetime and include caring for you, your newborn, other children as they grow, and your partner who often gets left out during this monumental time.

Chiropractic care throughout pregnancy is an ideal way to incorporate this holistic approach. The techniques that Dr. Madolyn Linka, uses in her practice helps to keep her patients stay comfortable, prevent common injuries and assess that mom and baby are growing well together is a diversified approach using Webster's Technique. What makes this technique so helpful throughout pregnancy is it’s safety, effectiveness and clinical utility.

The act of being pregnant and supporting a new life is truly remarkable. With this great task on our bodies, there are many physical (and hormonal) changes that can create challenges. Most women at some point through pregnancy experience some discomfort through their low back, hips, pubic symphysis, neck/shoulder pain, etc. And this is just to name a few! Lindsey Tasker Cole, Physiotherapist and Pelvic Health Therapist provides us with reasons why pelvic girdle pain can be common during pregnancy and how pelvic floor physiotherapy can help!

"Pre-birth acupuncture is a safe and natural therapy used in the final weeks of pregnancy as the body prepares for labour." Dr. Stephanie Liebrecht describes how women can prepare for birth and benefit by incorporating acupuncture into their birth plans.

Dr. Madolyn Linka discuses how chiropractic care, prenatal yoga, and the concept of “spinning babies” can help support mama’s in potentially having an easier and less stressful birthing process.

We have integrated the world of tele-health into our practice to help connect and bring healthcare to the comfort of your home. Physiotherapist Lindsey Tasker Cole brings support to prenatal and postpartum mamas through tele-health and explains what you can expect from an online appointment.