Pediatric and perinatal chiropractor in Fort Myers

Perinatal care: the Webster Technique through a changing body

Pregnancy reorganizes your structure over nine months. Weight goes forward, your center of gravity moves, ligaments loosen, and the low back, hips and pelvis absorb most of that change. Dr. Torres uses the Webster Technique, a specific and gentle adjustment focused on balance in the pelvis, alongside adjustments matched to where you are in your pregnancy.

Care is adapted trimester by trimester. Positioning changes as you grow, pressure stays light, and nothing happens until you understand what he is doing and why. Many expecting mothers come in for low back and pelvic discomfort that has stopped responding to rest and stretching.

Pediatric care: a small fraction of the force used on an adult

The single most common question parents ask is whether an adjustment on a child looks anything like the one they get. It does not. A pediatric adjustment uses a small fraction of the force used on an adult, applied with fingertip pressure, matched to a child's size, age and comfort, and explained to parents every step of the way.

Children's spines are still developing, and they take a lot of ordinary abuse: the way a toddler falls, the way a backpack loads one shoulder, the way a growing athlete trains one side of the body far harder than the other. Dr. Torres looks at how a child actually moves before he does anything about it.

What care here actually covers

Dr. Torres will talk with you about movement, discomfort, posture, and how your child's spine and joints are working. He will also talk about the nervous system those joints report to, because that system does not stop at movement. Nerve fibers supply the thymus, spleen and lymph nodes directly, and digestion runs largely on the parasympathetic side of the same system, which is why parents often notice changes past the thing they first came in for.

You get a real exam, an honest read on whether this is the right care for your child, and a plan you understand. If something belongs with your pediatrician, he will tell you that too, and if this is not the right fit, he will say so.

What a first visit actually looks like

Every visit at Crown starts the same way: a real conversation and an exam first, before any hands-on care.

• A conversation with you. Pregnancy history or birth history, what you are noticing, what your goals are, and what your child is like on a normal day.
• A hands-on exam. Posture, movement, and joint function, gentle throughout, with your child's comfort setting the pace.
• Testing where it adds something. Applied Kinesiology muscle-response testing when the source of a problem is not obvious from movement alone.
• A plan in plain language. What he found, what he recommends, how long it should take, and what would make him send you elsewhere.

Parents are in the room for all of it. Nothing is done to your child that you have not had explained to you first.

Care for the whole family

Most families arrive here in one of two ways. A mother comes in during pregnancy and later brings the baby, or a parent already under care at Crown decides their kid should be looked at too. Either way you are working with a full team: Dr. Torres for pediatric and perinatal care, Dr. Jarod Ward for functional medicine and root-cause work, and Dr. Leah, whose background in psychology and mental health informs her work with the Neuro-Emotional Technique. Crown has served Southwest Florida families since 2018.