My back hurts!

Back pain is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy. Over half of all pregnant women have back pain at some point in their pregnancy. Pregnancy is a beautiful stage in life, and suffering from back pain can shift your focus away from what is more important.

Prenatal massage is an excellent way of treating back pain during pregnancy, helping you to reduce your experience of pain and/or your use of pain medications.

In a randomized study conducted by the University of Miami, pregnant women who were between 7 and 9 months pregnant were given two free prenatal massages every week. These expectant mothers ended up having less back pain as well as a number of other positive outcomes.

Prenatal massage helps alleviate back pain by 1) helping shift your center of balance so that you can utilize the physics of torque to your advantage. Back pain is also caused by 2) the slight external rotation of your knees, which can also be corrected by alleviating fluid buildup in your legs through prenatal massage. As if that is not enough, during pregnancy, you produce hormones that relax some of the ligaments in your body. One of these hormones, relaxin, is critical in helping your baby come out through the narrow birth canal by relaxing your pelvic ligament. But before then, the softening of the ligaments can 3) disrupt your posture and the way you walk, which can promote back pain. Prenatal massage can help reset your posture, thus alleviating your back pain through this third mechanism. There are many other additional ways that prenatal massage helps back pain as well, including alleviating stress and anxiety, allowing for the relaxation of lower back muscles, improving circulation in your lower back, and even alleviating the inflammation around the nerves of your lower back.

Our certified prenatal massage therapist can perform prenatal massage specially tailored to help alleviate and ease back pain. Call us at 708-870-0808 to schedule your back-pain prenatal massage, or schedule your prenatal massage appointment online. Be sure to mention that you have back pain in the comments field when scheduling online.

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