"Chiropractic and Infertility.  Promising Research For Infertile Couples"

Infertility. If you haven't struggled with it yourself, chances are you know someone who wants to become pregnant but can't. Infertility affects more than six million women and their partners across the country. Now, there's surprising new research that may crack the case and offer some couples new hope.

Kaycee Mogel always dreamed of becoming a mother. She and her husband struggled for years trying to get pregnant.

She was even on fertility drugs but nothing worked. Then, she took a trip to the chiropractor.

"Within a couple months, I was pregnant. Oh, we're really excited," she remembers.

Startling new research shows a possible link between spinal adjustments and increased fertility in some women.

"It lets couples who have been infertile or couples who are planning on having a family, it offers them hope," explains Dr. Madeline Behrendt.

Dr. Behrendt led a study looking at 15 women who struggled with infertility, some for more than a decade. Then, for various reasons, each went to the chiropractor.

Fourteen became pregnant and are now mothers.

"The chiropractor identifies spinal distortions, which are called subluxations, and once they were detected and corrected, the fertility function improved," Dr. Behrendt explains.

She says there's a link between chiropractic care and fertility because the nerves to your reproductive system run through your spine. And she says when the back is misaligned, the nerves misfire and cause a hormone imbalance, which can prevent a woman from getting pregnant.

Dr. Behrendt says the spinal cord is like a highway, and when there's a detour in the nerves, messages take longer to get translated throughout the body. Or, they may not get communicated at all. That, she said, is where chiropractors can make the difference, "It's noted that the women have other symptoms also. And as a chiropractor, of course we know that, because the reason why they're infertile in the first place, is because they're not healthy."

But not everyone is convinced.

Dr. Sandra Ann Carson is with the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. She says the study is too small and she worries it may give women false hope. "Until chiropractic care is compared to standard infertility treatment in a clinical trial, we don't really know what the side effects are to either treatments or the benefits of one versus the other."

Source:  http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Fighting-Infertility-at-the-Chiropractor/ATyp-DMFE0OuxGly-9quBg.cspx

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Dr. Dingsor's comments:

I've seen first hand how adjustments can help with infertility.  I have had a handful of patients become pregnant after a series of adjustments to their low back.  How does this work?  No one is quite sure, but what we do know is that if there is irritation or impingement of the nervous system that feeds your reproductive organs, your body cannot work at it's maximum potential. 

Now medical doctors will dispute this and call it "quackery", but in Europe there have been many small trials done by osteopaths (which are considered "MDs" in this country) supporting that adjusting the low back has lead to females becoming pregnant after trying everything else (including fertility drugs). 

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Dr. Bryan Dingsor is the owner of Watertown Chiropractic P.C. in Watertown, SD. He specializes in the treatment of many musculoskeletal conditions and weight loss. For an appointment, please call 605-882-2304 Today.