Postpartum Chiropractor in Jacksonville

Your body spent nine months reshaping itself to grow a baby, then delivered one, and a postpartum chiropractor in Jacksonville helps it find its footing again. Now it’s carrying, feeding, rocking, and barely sleeping. At Full Swing Healthcare on Beach Blvd, gentle postpartum chiropractic helps new moms realign the pelvis and spine, relieve the back and neck pain that comes with those long days, and start feeling like themselves again.

Why your body needs realignment after baby

Pregnancy and delivery ask a lot of your spine and pelvis. The hormone relaxin loosened your ligaments to make room for the baby, your center of gravity shifted forward for months, and your pelvis opened to deliver. Relaxin doesn’t clear the moment your baby arrives. It can stay elevated for months after birth, and often longer while you’re breastfeeding, so the joints that were loose during pregnancy are still loose right when the physical demands of a newborn are at their peak. That is why postpartum pain isn’t just leftover soreness from delivery. It’s a specific, treatable mechanical problem.

Postpartum chiropractic gently guides your pelvis and spine back into proper alignment, takes pressure off irritated nerves, and relaxes the muscles that have been compensating. It’s the same assessment-first care we’re known for: Dr. Cody Muren (a Palmer College of Chiropractic graduate, License #CH12412) and Dr. Eric Hall, who handles our family care, figure out exactly what’s going on before they treat it, and everything is matched to a body that’s still recovering.

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“Dr. Muren is seriously the best. I’m seeing him for pregnancy and he’s also treating my 15-month-old, and will see my newborn as well. With my baby he is so gentle. Highly recommend for prenatal and infant care.”

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Joanna Ocean
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Where postpartum care picks up after your OB checkup

Your six-week OB visit is important, and it answers a specific set of questions: has your uterus recovered, has any incision healed, are you cleared to return to normal activity. What that checkup doesn’t evaluate is your low back, your pelvic joints, or the upper-back and neck strain that build up over weeks of feeding posture. That gap is exactly where we start. We’re not a replacement for your OB or midwife. We handle the mechanical side of recovery they aren’t set up to treat, and we coordinate with your provider whenever it helps.

What postpartum care helps with

• Lower back pain that lingered or showed up after delivery
• Pelvic misalignment and that “things don’t feel even” sensation
• Neck and upper-back pain from hours of feeding with your head down
• Sore, knotted shoulders from carrying a car seat and a growing baby
• “Mom thumb” and wrist strain from lifting and supporting a newborn
• Tension headaches that trace back to a stiff, overworked neck
• Hip and sciatica-type pain that radiates down the leg
• The all-over stiffness of nursing, rocking, and sleeping in odd positions

What we actually treat after birth

Postpartum pain tends to show up in a handful of predictable patterns. Here are the ones we see most, and how we approach each.

Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain

The joints where your pelvis meets your spine are normally rock-solid, but relaxin makes them loose, and after delivery they’re trying to firm back up while you lift, twist, and rise from the couch dozens of times a day with a baby in your arms. The classic sign is one-sided low back or pelvic pain, usually on the side you tend to carry on, that’s worse with walking, stairs, and rolling over in bed. Gentle, targeted work on the joint plus the surrounding muscles settles it down, often quickly.

Neck and upper-back pain from feeding

Hours a day looking down to feed, with your shoulders rolled forward and arms holding position, loads your upper back and the base of your skull. That’s where a lot of postpartum headaches actually come from, not just the sleep deprivation moms tend to blame. We free up the stiff upper back, release the tight neck muscles, and give you a couple of simple positioning tweaks so it doesn’t keep rebuilding between visits.

Pelvic and pubic pain

Relaxin loosens the joint at the front of your pelvis the same way it loosens the ones in back. For some moms that means sharp pain in front with walking, standing on one leg, or climbing stairs. Because the front and back of the pelvis and both hips work as one linked system, restoring the SI joints and easing the hips usually calms the front pain without treating it directly.

C-section recovery and scar tissue

A cesarean cuts through several layers of the abdominal wall, and the scar tissue that forms can tug on the fascia and leave the low back feeling tight for reasons that aren’t obvious. Once your OB has cleared you, typically around the six-week mark, gentle soft-tissue work over the scar restores movement in the area, and moms often notice their back loosens up even when the scar itself wasn’t their main complaint.

Diastasis recti and core stability

The separation of the abdominal muscles down the middle, common after pregnancy, changes how your trunk supports your spine. When that deep core can’t stabilize well, everyday lifting (baby, car seat, groceries) falls on your low back instead. We check for it at your first visit and shape your plan around it, and if you’d benefit from pelvic floor physical therapy alongside chiropractic, we’ll point you to it.

Gentle, and built around where you are

There’s no rush and no one-size-fits-all timeline. Vaginal delivery moms can often come in within the first days or weeks for gentle upper-back and neck work, with pelvic work starting once the early healing phase has passed. If you had a C-section, we’ll wait for your OB clearance before treating the low back and pelvis, but we can still ease your neck and upper back before then. We start with a real exam, listen to how you’re moving and sleeping and feeding, and choose techniques that respect a body that’s still healing. If a forceful adjustment isn’t right for you, we have low-force and instrument-assisted options that work just as well, and nothing happens until you’re comfortable with the plan.

Your Jacksonville postpartum chiropractor on Beach Blvd

Full Swing Healthcare sits at 13770 Beach Blvd #4, minutes from Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach, and Ponte Vedra Beach, so recovery care stays close to home for new moms across the east side. In Florida you don’t need a referral to see a chiropractor, so you can book directly without waiting on your OB’s permission, though we’re always glad to coordinate with your provider and send notes on request. And because we keep chiropractic, soft-tissue work, and rehab under one roof, you can handle a combined visit in one trip instead of driving all over town with a newborn in the back seat.

Who cares for you

Your care is led by Dr. Cody Muren, DC, a Palmer College of Chiropractic graduate (Florida License #CH12412), with Dr. Eric Hall, DC handling our family care. Between them they assess your pregnancy history, delivery, and how your body is holding up now, then build a plan matched to a recovering body. If you had prenatal care with us, your postpartum care picks up right where it left off, because we already have your pre-delivery baseline on file.

What to expect

1. We listen and assess

   We talk through your pregnancy, delivery, and how the early weeks of motherhood are treating your body, then do a full, gentle exam to find the root cause of your pain.

2. We explain the plan

   You’ll hear in plain English what’s going on and what we recommend. No jargon, no pressure, no endless-visit sales pitch.

3. We treat gently

   Most moms get their first treatment the same day, using techniques matched to a recovering body. Many walk out moving easier than they have in months.

4. We re-check as you heal

   Your body keeps changing in those first postpartum months. We track your progress and adjust the plan as you get stronger.

Bring the baby if you need to. This is a real-life clinic for real-life parents from Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, and all along the coast. The goal is simple: get you out of pain and back in full swing, so you can actually enjoy this stage instead of gritting through it.

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“He has been a lifesaver through multiple injuries, my pregnancy, and has even seen my daughter since she was 4 weeks old. I highly recommend.”

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Dasa Lara
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