Pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain – treatment modalities

Małgorzata Starzec; Aleksandra Truszczyńska

doi:10.1515/rehab-2015-0068

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Pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain – treatment modalities

Advances in Rehabilitation

Volume 31 (2017): Issue 2 (June 2017)

By: Małgorzata Starzec and Aleksandra Truszczyńska

Open Access

|Oct 2017

Abstract

Introduction

Pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain is a common complaint which often limits everyday activity of a pregnant woman. Accurate and individualized treatment is needed as, if ignored, pain can become a long term condition.

The aim of this article is to present the current state of knowledge about possible treatment modalities for pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain.

Summary

Current knowledge gives us a variety of effective tools which help reduce pain and functional limitations with no harm to a mother and foetus. There is no single and most effective treatment strategy. A combination of evidence-based methods produces the best treatment outcomes.

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