What is the Webster Technique?

The Webster Technique is a specific chiropractic assessment and adjustment of the pelvis and its associated soft tissue, used during pregnancy. It is a defined protocol with its own certification, not a general term for treating a pregnant patient, which is how it is often used loosely.

Practitioners have to train in it separately and be certified to say they use it. At this clinic, Dr Kenneth Taylor is the chiropractor who holds that certification.

What it actually addresses

Pregnancy changes how the pelvis carries load, and it does it fast. Weight shifts forward, the centre of gravity moves, and ligaments soften under hormonal change, so the sacroiliac joints and the muscles and ligaments around them are working differently than they were a few months earlier.

The technique is directed at that: restriction in the sacroiliac joints, and tension in the surrounding soft tissue. The assessment comes first and decides whether it is appropriate at all.

What it is not

⚠ This is worth stating plainly, because the claim is common and it is wrong.

The Webster Technique is not a procedure for turning a breech baby. It is an assessment and adjustment of the mother’s pelvis. It is not an obstetric intervention, and anyone describing it as a way to reposition a baby is describing something other than what it is.

Your baby’s position is a question for your midwife or obstetrician, and it stays with them. If you have been told your baby is breech, that conversation belongs in maternity care. A chiropractic appointment is not a substitute for it, and nothing here is offered as one.

What an appointment involves

Much the same as any first appointment here, with pregnancy changing the specifics:

• A history, including how far along you are and anything you have been told about your pregnancy.
• A physical assessment of the pelvis and lower back, and of how you are moving.
• An explanation of what was found, before anything else happens.
• Adjustment where it is clinically appropriate, side-lying with support, on a table that accommodates a growing abdomen, using lower force than the same work would use outside pregnancy.

Whether the Webster protocol is used at all follows from the assessment. It is not applied to everyone who books while pregnant.

What to raise elsewhere

Anything obstetric needs maternity care now, not a chiropractic appointment, bleeding, reduced fetal movement, severe headache with visual changes, regular contractions before term, or fluid loss. If you contact the clinic with any of those you will be told the same thing and helped to get seen.

Booking

Tell reception you are pregnant and how far along when you book, so you are matched with the right chiropractor. Dr Kenneth Taylor’s page has his availability, and the pregnancy chiropractic page covers what changes about care during pregnancy more broadly.

Fees and item codes are on the fees page, and HICAPS is on site so any health fund rebate is claimed at the desk.