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- Title
Subjective recovery from pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain the first 6 weeks after delivery: a prospective longitudinal cohort study.
- Authors
Gausel, Anne Marie; Malmqvist, Stefan; Andersen, Knut; Kjærmann, Inger; Larsen, Jan Petter; Dalen, Ingvild; Økland, Inger
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>The purpose of this study was to investigate the subjective recovery from pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PGP) during the first 6 weeks after delivery and to detect possible risk factors for a poor recovery.<bold>Methods: </bold>The participants were included in this study at the routine ultrasound examination at 18 weeks of pregnancy. The women received a weekly SMS with the question "How many days during the last week has your PGP been bothersome?" The SMS-track from the final 10 weeks of pregnancy and first 6 weeks after delivery were assessed and sorted, based on individual graphs. A total of 130 women who reported PGP during pregnancy and met for clinical examination 6 weeks after delivery were included in the study.<bold>Results: </bold>In all, 83% of the women experienced substantial recovery from severe or moderate PGP within 6 weeks after delivery. Of these, 44% reported a substantial recovery already within 2 weeks after delivery. More multiparous women, women reporting PGP the year before pregnancy, and women with high pain intensity during pregnancy had a poor recovery.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The prognosis following PGP in pregnancy is good and the majority of women recovered substantially from severe and moderate pregnancy-related PGP within 6 weeks after delivery. For many women, a subjective substantial recovery occurred within 2 weeks after delivery. Predictors for a poor recovery were multiparity, PGP the year before pregnancy and a high pain intensity during pregnancy. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary Material.
- Subjects
PELVIC bones; PELVIC pain; LONGITUDINAL method; COHORT analysis; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH; PAIN measurement; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; PREGNANCY complications
- Publication
European Spine Journal, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 3, p556
- ISSN
0940-6719
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00586-020-06288-9