| According to a recent report by the Centers for | | | | can prevent the nervous system from keeping the |
| Disease Control, at least six million women in the | | | | brain up to date on the body's condition, making it |
| United States are infertile and more than nine million | | | | harder for the various areas of the body to get |
| employ some form or other of fertility service. | | | | what they need, or as the study's director, JSVR |
| According to research papers published in the JVSR | | | | editor Madeline Behrendt, D.C. says "Essential to all |
| (Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research, jvsr.com), | | | | processes of life is the nervous system, which |
| chiropractic adjustment, targeting nerve interference | | | | perceives the environment and coordinates the |
| caused by spinal distortions, has proven useful in | | | | cellular community's biological response to the |
| combating the infertility problem. | | | | impinging environmental stimuli. It is reasonable to |
| The twelve studies in the series found chiropractic | | | | consider that a system that is properly functioning to |
| care an effective treatment for infertile women | | | | its potential may resist destructive forces more |
| regardless of age, medical history, or how long | | | | successfully and with less damage." |
| they've been experiencing infertility. One of the most | | | | Even without this study, though, improved fertility |
| surprising cases involved a thirty two year old | | | | would come as no surprise to chiropractic care |
| woman who had gone twelve years without | | | | professionals and patients. The nervous system, |
| menstruating. She had undergone several medical | | | | being dependent on the musculoskeletal system, |
| treatments meant to solve her infertility and nothing | | | | almost invariably sees improvement after a person |
| proved effective. Finally, after just two months of | | | | has received chiropractic care from a trained |
| chiropractic care targeting her lumbar region, her | | | | professional. As the nervous system improves, blood |
| menstrual period corrected itself and she became | | | | flow and communication to various parts of the body |
| pregnant shortly thereafter. | | | | improves. |
| All of the women studied were found to be suffering | | | | Besides the obvious direct effects that chiropractic |
| from vertebral subluxation. The causes for these | | | | care can have on the body, the method can also, by |
| subluxations included scoliosis, vehicular accidents, | | | | improving blood flow, digestion and several other |
| normal childhood injuries and everyday physical stress. | | | | basic everyday body functions, decrease mental and |
| Other causes of infertility included mental stress at | | | | physical stress. Stress can actually prevent |
| work or home and blocked fallopian tubes. | | | | menstruation all on its own and chiropractic care can |
| Chiropractic care primarily affects fertility by | | | | improve fertility by something as simple as helping |
| correcting these subluxations and allowing for better | | | | the hopeful mother to be to relax. |
| communication for the nervous system. A subluxation | | | | |