Read this before the booking button
Pregnancy creates a lot of searches for a chiropractor, and this page exists because of that demand. It is not a green light. Richter Family Chiropractic has not confirmed, for this guide, that the doctors are currently seeing prenatal patients. An older web address once touched the topic. An old address is not a current service. Do not treat a search result, a memory of a flyer, or a paragraph on a blog as an appointment. Call (951) 817-9815 and ask, in so many words, whether prenatal care is being offered now. If the answer is no, or if the person who answers has to check, believe the pause. The contact page is the right door. The doctors page introduces Dr. Matthew Richter and Dr. William Choi. It does not, by itself, book a pregnancy visit.
The photograph is a question card. It is not a picture of a pregnant patient, and one will not be staged. The chiropractic care description on the main site is general adult musculoskeletal care. It is not a prenatal protocol.
Back and pelvic pain are common, and common is not a diagnosis
A growing belly changes load. Sleep gets worse. Ligaments loosen under ordinary hormonal shifts. People feel that as low back ache, pelvic pain, pubic pain, or a hip that complains on the stairs. MedlinePlus discusses back pain (opens in a new tab) as a wide category that includes muscle and joint strain and also problems that are not a simple strain. Pregnancy adds causes a chiropractic webpage should not casually sort: urinary infection, preterm labor signs, a blood pressure problem, a clot, bleeding, fluid leakage, a severe headache with visual change. Those are obstetric and emergency questions. They are not a reason to hunt for an adjustment first.
If you have vaginal bleeding, fluid leaking, regular contractions before you were told to expect them, fainting, chest pain, trouble breathing, a sudden severe headache, visual changes, one-sided swelling with other warning signs your obstetric clinician already listed, or decreased fetal movement as your own clinician defined it, contact that clinician or emergency services. Do not spend the hour comparing chiropractic offices. This guide will not invent a fetal-movement count or a contraction rule. Your prenatal clinician already has one, or you need to ask them for it.
The educational point, and it is only educational, is that mechanical pain and medical danger can sit in the same week. A person can have ordinary pelvic ache and, separately, a symptom that cannot wait. The loud limit on this page is about the office's unconfirmed service. The louder limit is about not delaying obstetric care.
Devices that are already off the table
Even if a future confirmation said the doctors were seeing prenatal patients, two technologies in this building stay out. The practice's shockwave screening already says shockwave is not used during pregnancy, not over an infection or a tumor, and not when a blood-clotting disorder is present. Do not book shockwave. Do not ask for a "light" version of shockwave as a workaround. The exclusion is the exclusion.
EMTT screening published by the office also lists pregnancy, along with a pacemaker or defibrillator, active cancer in the area being treated, a seizure disorder, and a deep vein thrombosis or other clot. It is not applied over the head or face, and not over infection, an open wound, or acute inflammation. Pregnancy is on that list. Do not try to schedule Magnetolith sessions while pregnant and expect this article to bless it.
Class IV laser and spinal decompression are not given a prenatal green light here either. This page will not invent a trimester at which they become acceptable. The Food and Drug Administration (opens in a new tab) describes Class IV beams as an immediate skin and eye hazard in the direct or reflected path, and as a possible fire hazard. That general hazard statement is not a pregnancy study. It is one more reason device choices belong to a confirmed clinical policy, which this guide does not have.
What you can still learn from a general back-pain exam, later
People often want chiropractic care in pregnancy because they want a non-drug option for mechanical pain. That wish is understandable. Drugs and imaging have their own pregnancy constraints, which your obstetric clinician manages. A chiropractor who is actually seeing prenatal patients would still need the same basics any exam needs: where it hurts, what makes it worse, neurological symptoms, and a clear channel back to the clinician managing the pregnancy. Is chiropractic care safe explains the adult version of benefits and limits, and it refuses the phrase "completely safe." Pregnancy is not the moment to soften that refusal.
Low back pain after the pregnancy, or between pregnancies, is a different booking question and can follow the ordinary first visit. Do not use a postpartum plan as a sneaky prenatal booking. Say how far along you are, or how many weeks since delivery, when you call. Blood-loss restrictions, incision healing, and blood pressure problems in the early weeks after birth are also reasons to clear activity with the clinician who delivered you, before a table visit.
Children are a separate unconfirmed question. The pediatric page uses the same kind of limit. Do not assume a yes for a newborn because you hope for a yes during pregnancy.
How to place the call so the answer is usable
Say this, and then stop talking long enough to hear the reply.
"I am pregnant. I want to know if your doctors are currently seeing prenatal patients. I am not asking to book shockwave or EMTT. If the answer is yes, what do you need from my obstetric clinician before anyone schedules. If the answer is no, I will look elsewhere."
Write down the name of the person who answered and the date. A yes from a guide, a social post, or a relative is not the yes that counts. A yes from the office, with whatever conditions they add, is the one that counts. If they say they need a note from your midwife or obstetrician, that is a reasonable condition, not an insult. If they say they do not know, the service is not confirmed.
Training background, for context only: chiropractors are doctoral-level clinicians with a state license, which is how the Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in a new tab) and the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners (opens in a new tab) describe the profession. That license does not, by itself, mean a particular clinic is offering prenatal care this month. Scope on paper and schedule in real life are allowed to differ. This clinic's schedule is the thing you are calling to learn.
Nothing on this page promises that an adjustment would ease pelvic pain, shorten labor, turn a baby, or replace obstetric care. Those claims circulate online. They are not claims this office has made, and they will not be borrowed. The helpful outcome of the page is smaller. You know to call. You know shockwave and EMTT are not prenatal offerings. You know an old link is not a current yes. You know which symptoms belong to your obstetric clinician today, not to a chiropractic calendar tomorrow.
Questions people ask
Can I book a prenatal visit online?
Not from this guide. The doctors have not confirmed that they are currently seeing prenatal patients. Call and ask that question in plain language. If the person answering has to check, or says no, do not use a general adult button as a workaround. An older web address that once mentioned pregnancy is not a current yes. If the office says yes, ask what they need from your obstetric clinician before a time is held.
Can I schedule shockwave or EMTT while pregnant?
No. The practice already screens shockwave out during pregnancy, and also over infection, tumor, or a blood-clotting disorder. EMTT screening lists pregnancy as well, along with pacemakers, active cancer in the area, seizure disorder, and clots. Do not ask for a lighter version as a loophole. This page also does not clear Class IV laser or spinal decompression by trimester. Those choices need a confirmed policy, which is not published here. Call about whether prenatal patients are seen at all, not about booking a machine.
Will an adjustment turn the baby or shorten labor?
This office has not made those claims. Nothing here promises less pelvic pain, a changed fetal position, a shorter labor, or a substitute for obstetric care. Mechanical ache in pregnancy is common and still not a diagnosis. Bleeding, leaking fluid, contractions you were not told to expect, fainting, a severe headache with visual change, or decreased movement as your own clinician defined it belongs to that clinician or to emergency care, not to a chiropractic search.
I had back pain before pregnancy. Is that the same booking?
Only if you are not pregnant now. Between pregnancies, or well after delivery with your obstetric clinician's clearance, an ordinary adult exam is a different question from a prenatal request. Say how far along you are, or how many weeks since delivery, when you call. Early postpartum limits such as incision healing are reasons to ask the clinician who delivered you before you climb on a table. Do not use a postpartum complaint to slip a current pregnancy onto the schedule.
Who decides if chiropractic care is safe in my pregnancy?
Your obstetric clinician manages the pregnancy. This clinic, if it confirms that it is seeing prenatal patients, would still need a history and a reason to think the pain is mechanical. A state chiropractic license does not, by itself, mean prenatal hours are open this month. Completely safe is not a phrase this guide uses for anyone. If you are told yes, ask what is being proposed, what is off limits, and what should send you back to obstetrics the same day.
Sources
- Back pain — MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Chiropractors — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook
- California Board of Chiropractic Examiners — State of California
- Frequently Asked Questions about Lasers — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
General education from Richter Family Chiropractic, not a personal diagnosis or a promise of results. Individual results vary. Chest pain, trouble breathing, sudden weakness, or loss of bowel or bladder control needs emergency care, not this page.
Waiting on the clinic
- Medical sign-off. Dr. Matthew Richter, DC still needs to review and sign this page. Until that date is recorded, treat the page as a draft for clinical review, not as signed medical advice.
- Doctor's own words. A short recorded statement from Dr. Richter or Dr. Choi belongs here. Do not publish a quote until one of them says it on the record.
- Clinic photo still needed. The marked frame is waiting on a real photograph from the office. No stand-in patient or treatment photo will be generated.
- Confirm pregnancy and pediatric care. An older page on the main site mentioned pregnancy, and the doctors' page says patients of all ages. The practice has not confirmed, for this guide, that prenatal or pediatric care is currently offered. Do not book those visits from this page until the office says so.
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