Pre-eclampsia
Making a house call Van Loon, M. Int’l
Chiropractors Association Review Fall 2001.
This is the case
of a woman on bed rest due to symptoms of pre-eclampsia that
the midwife and obstetrician were trying to manage at home.
By 35 weeks gestation, swelling of extremities and rising
blood pressure did not improve by full bed rest. The patient
had two at home visits of chiropractic care and her symptoms
stabilized with no need for the hospitalization that was considered.
Hypolumbarlordosis:
a predisposing factor for preeclampsia. Kanayama N. Maradny
EE, Kajiwara Y. et al. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Reproductive Biology, 1997;75: 115-121
About 1 in 200 pregnant
women suffer from preeclampsia with hypertension and albuminaria
(protein in urine) which can lead to seizures, coma and death.
The cause is unknown.
The authors studied pregnant women to
see if there was a relationship between their spinal shape,
particularly the lumbar (lower back) spinal shape and preeclampsia.
It was revealed that women with decreased lumbar spine curves
had more preeclampsia. Interestingly, they also found that
patients with reduced lumbar curves had decreased blood flow
to the iliac artery than other pregnant women.
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