Pregnancy Care: Dr. Travis Arrington’s Perspective
Helping moms feel stronger, more comfortable, and better prepared for birth and motherhood.
$99 New Patient Exam
- Digital Postural Assessment
- Stress Response Evaluation
- Doctor’s Recommended Plan of Care
- First Brain-Based Adjustment
What types of changes occur during pregnancy?
• A woman’s body goes through major shifts. Hormones loosen ligaments, the belly grows and pulls the lower back forward, the pelvis tilts, and the center of gravity changes. These changes affect posture, the spine, and the nervous system.
How do these changes affect a pregnant woman and her baby?
• For mom, these shifts often cause low back pain, pelvic pain, sciatica, headaches, and poor sleep. For the baby, a misaligned pelvis can reduce the space available, making it harder to get into the best position for birth.
What are the most common issues you see?
• Low back pain, pelvic girdle pain, sciatica, round ligament pain, headaches, and tightness in the upper back and neck from poor posture. Many women also struggle with heartburn, shortness of breath, and difficulty sleeping as pregnancy progresses.
How can chiropractic care help reduce the impact those changes have?
• Chiropractic care helps by gently correcting subluxations in the spine and pelvis so the nervous system can work better. This reduces pain, improves pelvic balance, decreases inflammation, and helps the body adapt to the rapid changes.
What are the benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy?
• Many moms experience less back and pelvic pain, fewer headaches, better sleep, easier movement, and shorter labor times. This is accomplished by addressing what we call the Three P’s: Power (uterine function and the strength of contractions), Passage (the birth canal and pelvic alignment), and Passenger (the baby’s position and presentation). Brain based adjustments help restore proper nervous system function for more effective labor contractions, balance the pelvis and sacroiliac joints for more room and mobility, and reduce ligament tension to create optimal space for the baby to assume a better position for birth.
How Our Pregnancy Care Plan Works
Schedule Your New Patient Exam
Set up a time so you and your doctor can do a thorough history and examination to determine the root cause of your pain.
Get A Customized Corrective Care Plan
Your doctor will create a custom corrective care plan to not only get you out of pain fast but to keep you out of pain long term.
Enjoy The Healthy Life You Want To Live
Receive the care you need to regain your health and live pain free so you can get back to spending your time the way you want.
How We Treat Pregnant Moms in Sandy, UT
Comprehensive Consultation and Exam
What is this process like at White Bison Well-Being?
• We start with a relaxed, no pressure conversation so I can hear your story, what your pregnancy discomfort feels like, and what you have already tried. From there we move into a thorough exam, including posture analysis, orthopedic and neurological testing, and a full spinal assessment.
Why is it important to get to the root cause of the problem?
• Masking pregnancy discomfort with medication does not fix what is actually happening underneath. Finding the real root, usually a subluxation or a breakdown in brain to body communication, lets your body do the healing instead of just managing symptoms.
Brain Based Chiropractic Care in Sandy, UT
What is a subluxation and how can it relate to pregnancy discomfort?
• A subluxation is a brain to body communication problem, a stuck or misaligned vertebra that interferes with nerve signals. This interference creates muscle tension, compensation patterns, and nervous system stress that can feed directly into pregnancy discomfort.
How can brain based adjustments benefit a patient with pregnancy discomfort?
• Gentle, specific adjustments clear the nerve static, reduce muscle guarding, and restore proper communication between your brain and body. Most patients notice a real shift in how they feel within the first few visits.
What makes brain based chiropractic different from the conventional treatment model?
• Conventional care usually hands you medication to quiet the symptom. Brain based chiropractic finds and corrects the actual interference driving your pregnancy discomfort, so the goal is resolution, not management.
Nerve Point Reset
What is Nerve Point Reset?
• Nerve Point Reset uses specific TTAPS points, a system developed by Dr. Alan Bonebrake, to calm the nervous system and release the protective guarding patterns your body holds onto.
How does it help with pregnancy discomfort?
• By calming an overactive nervous system, Nerve Point Reset helps your body come out of protection mode, which is often a hidden piece of what keeps pregnancy discomfort sticking around.
BioCharger Therapy
What is the BioCharger?
• The BioCharger is a therapy platform that uses light, frequency, and vibration to support your body’s natural energy and recovery systems, creating a better internal environment for healing to take place.
How does it support recovery from pregnancy discomfort?
• It is used as part of your broader care plan to support cellular energy and recovery capacity, helping the rest of your treatment for pregnancy discomfort hold and build on itself between visits.
Qest4 Scans
What is a Qest4 scan?
• The Qest4 is a bioenergetic scanning tool we use to check for chemical and environmental stressors that may be quietly slowing down your body’s ability to heal.
Why does this matter for pregnancy discomfort?
• If your system is dealing with underlying chemical stress, healing pregnancy discomfort becomes an uphill battle no matter how good the mechanical care is. The scan helps us see what else may need to be addressed.
Rapid Regen: Our Three-Layer Soft Tissue Protocol
What is Rapid Regen?
• Rapid Regen is our three-layer soft tissue protocol built around one idea: one tool gives you a partial fix, but three layers working in sequence give you real regeneration. We spark the cells, ignite the reset, and fuel the results.
What happens in each layer?
• Spark uses EMTT with 808 nanometer red light to prime your cells and tissue so they are ready to heal. Ignite uses radial ShockWave to mechanically break down scar tissue and adhesions, forcing your body to actively rebuild. Fuel uses Class 4 laser to flood the area with blood flow and nutrients, locking in the healing and structuring new tissue.
How does Rapid Regen help with pregnancy discomfort?
• Layering these three tools together addresses the soft tissue component of pregnancy discomfort from multiple angles in a single visit, rather than relying on one modality to do all the work.
Home Therapies
What happens between visits?
• We build a personalized home plan for your pregnancy discomfort, which may include DNA Vibe wearable therapy, physical therapy style exercises, emotional release work, and nutritional recommendations.
Why does the plan look different for every patient?
• No two cases of pregnancy discomfort have the exact same drivers, so your home plan is built around what your exam and history actually show, not a generic handout.
Common Causes of Pregnancy Pain
Low Back Pain
Why is it so common during pregnancy?
• Your belly grows forward, shifting your center of gravity and putting extra stress on your low back and pelvis, while hormones loosen ligaments and make the spine less stable.
What techniques do you use to relieve it?
• Gentle, pregnancy safe adjustments to restore alignment, Rapid Regen to reduce inflammation and muscle tension, and simple at home exercises to strengthen the glutes and core.
Pelvic Pain
Why is this common during pregnancy?
• Your body releases relaxin, which loosens ligaments to prepare for birth, while your growing belly puts extra stress on the pelvis, often making the sacroiliac joints and pubic bone unstable.
What techniques do you use to relieve it?
• Very gentle, pregnancy safe adjustments to realign the pelvis and sacroiliac joints, along with simple at home exercises to stabilize the area.
Pregnancy Headaches
What causes these headaches?
• Tension in the neck and upper back from poor posture, dehydration, hormonal shifts, and subluxations in the upper neck that irritate nerves going to the head.
How can chiropractic care help?
• Gentle upper neck adjustments improve nerve communication, reduce muscle tension, and help restore proper blood flow, often decreasing both frequency and intensity.
Symphysis Pubis Disorder (SPD)
What does it feel like and why is it so common?
• SPD feels like sharp, burning, or aching pain in the front of the pelvis, especially when walking or climbing stairs. It is common because pregnancy hormones make ligaments lax while the growing baby adds stress to the pelvis.
How does chiropractic care help?
• It keeps the pelvis and spine balanced so the body can better handle the effects of relaxin, reducing pain and instability.
Round Ligament Pain
What does it feel like?
• A sharp, stabbing, or pulling sensation on one or both sides of your lower belly, often coming on suddenly with quick movements like getting out of bed.
What techniques do you use to relieve it?
• Gentle pelvic adjustments to balance the uterus and reduce excessive tension on the ligaments, along with safe pregnancy friendly stretches.
Pregnancy Related Sciatica
What causes it during pregnancy?
• A misaligned pelvis or low back subluxation that pinches the nerve as it exits the spine. The growing baby and loosened ligaments can also shift the pelvis, adding extra pressure.
How can chiropractic care relieve it?
• Gentle adjustments restore pelvic balance and take pressure off the sciatic nerve. Most moms notice significant relief within the first few visits.
Pregnancy Related Nausea
What are the causes?
• Hormonal changes, low blood sugar, stress on the nervous system, and upper neck tension can all contribute, since a misaligned upper neck can affect signals going to the brain and stomach.
What is the chiropractic solution?
• Gentle upper neck adjustments often reduce nausea by improving nerve communication and blood flow to the brain and stomach.
Intrauterine Constraint and Breech Positioning
Why is intrauterine constraint a concern?
• It restricts the space the baby has to move and get into the best position for birth, which can lead to longer labor or breech presentation.
What techniques help prevent it?
• Brain based adjustments specifically aimed at balancing the pelvis and releasing ligament tension can give the baby more room to move into the optimal head down position naturally.
Urinary Incontinence
What causes it in pregnant women?
• The growing baby puts pressure on the bladder, and pregnancy hormones loosen the pelvic floor muscles, making it harder to control urine. Poor pelvic alignment can make this worse.
How can it be prevented?
• Specific pelvic floor and core stabilizing exercises, along with chiropractic care to keep the pelvis balanced, can significantly reduce or prevent leakage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is chiropractic safe during pregnancy?
• Yes, chiropractic is very safe during pregnancy when performed by a trained chiropractor. We use gentle, low force techniques and special positioning that never puts pressure on your belly.
When should you start seeing a chiropractor during pregnancy?
• The sooner the better. Many women start in the first trimester to help with nausea, headaches, and to keep the pelvis balanced as their body begins changing rapidly.
Can chiropractic adjustments cause miscarriage?
• There is no evidence that gentle prenatal chiropractic adjustments cause miscarriage. The techniques we use are specifically modified to be extremely safe for pregnant moms.
Can you go to the chiropractor in the first trimester?
• Absolutely. Getting care early often reduces morning sickness and headaches and prevents low back and pelvic problems before they become more difficult.
Is it normal to have lower back pain in early pregnancy?
• It is very common, but it is not something you have to just deal with. Hormones loosen ligaments and your posture starts to shift, which can make the lower back unstable and painful.
How do you relieve lower back pain during pregnancy?
• We use gentle adjustments to restore alignment in the low back and pelvis, along with Rapid Regen to calm tight muscles and reduce inflammation.
When does low back pain start in pregnancy?
• It can begin as early as the first trimester, but usually becomes more noticeable in the second and third trimesters as the belly grows.
How do you relieve pelvic pain during pregnancy?
• Gentle adjustments to the sacroiliac joints and pubic bone help restore balance and stability, along with Nerve Point Reset to ease ligament and muscle tension.
Is it normal for your pelvis to hurt during pregnancy?
• It is very common because pregnancy hormones loosen the ligaments while the baby’s weight adds extra stress to the pelvis. Balancing the joints early usually makes a big difference.
Who is the best chiropractor for pregnancy in Sandy, UT?
• Dr. Travis Arrington at White Bison Well-Being is one of the most experienced prenatal chiropractors in Sandy, using safe, gentle techniques to help local moms stay active and comfortable throughout pregnancy.
Ready to Get to the Root of It?
Schedule a consultation with Dr. Travis Arrington at White Bison Well-Being in Sandy, UT, and find out what is really driving your pain.
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Monday: 8:00am – 5:30pm
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