My wife, 27-weeks pregnant, just visited with her OB this morning and at that visit she discussed with him her recent lower back/hip pain as she moves into the third trimester. Nothing out of the ordinary, according to her OB, but the OB also gave her a referral to a chiropractor if she wants to go that route to address her pain and my wife is considering it on the authority of her OB (“He wouldn’t have recommended him if it didn’t work” type of reasoning). I’ve read Austin’s “Aches and Pains” article as well as the PainScience.com “Your Back Is Not Out of Alignment” article on structuralism multiple times to inform my own training, but I’m having difficulty translating the arguments made in those articles to her situation with her pregnancy to convince her that a chiropractor isn’t necessary without trying to sound arrogant like I know more than the OB. I just don’t want her wasting her time (and our money, frankly) on a chiropractor when we have so much evidence to the contrary that their model of pain and the postural-structural-biomechanical is wildly exaggerated. Any help would be great, thanks, y’all.
Have you shared these resources (or the other resources we frequently cite) with her? Pregnancy does not significantly change the neurophysiology of pain, so there really isn’t anything about the arguments that needs to be “translated” here, you know?
I have and she finds both articles to be “overwhelming” in her words since she doesn’t have much of a background in science (English major and Public History M.A.) so she’s having a hard time synthesizing the information I suppose. I’ll try reading through the Aches and Pains article with her and answering questions with her as she goes. Maybe telling her that I didn’t know about pain science like this until a few months ago and explain how knowing about it helped my training and that this knowledge can help her with her pregnancy pains too. Thanks, Austin.
Here’s a more “accessible” starting point for this stuff: https://youtu.be/oji2mfcjisk
Fantastic, thank you so much.
@Austin_Baraki Would you be able to repost a new link to the video above or the title of the video, YouTube says it’s been removed.