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Infertility and the Chiropractic Link
Making Adjustments for Fertility
By Kelly Burgess
When I told Dr. Madeline Behrendt my friend's story, she laughed delightedly, glad to have these theories bolstered once again. Dr. Behrendt is the author of the infertility series, an associate editor of JVSR and the chair of the council on women's health for the World Chiropractic Alliance. Dr. Behrendt says that it's anecdotal evidence like my friend's that prompted the study in the first place.
"This is occurring in practices all over the country, but definitive research includes very specific guidelines, and I wanted to operate and present under those guidelines," she says. "The purpose of the study was to start establishing solid evidence for what people in practices have been reporting for a very long time."
Dr. Behrendt makes it clear that chiropractic in and of itself is not a "cure" or a treatment for infertility. However, what chiropractic does is to correct distortions in the parts of the body where the reproductive organs are located. It seems that doing so can sometimes lead to fertility.
Dr. Frank Painter maintains the Chiropractic and Infertility page for the Chiropractic Resource Organization and operates a practice in LaGrange, Ill. He explains that the roots of the study and the idea behind chiropractic as help for infertility lie in good science.
"Peristaltic motion is a term that describes muscular function controlled by our autonomous nervous system," he says. "If you look at where the uterus is, an egg has to go down a little tube and is propelled via peristaltic motion. If it happens to be fertilized but there is insufficient peristaltic motion, it cannot be delivered to the uterus."
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