Low-Back Pain in Pregnancy Abdominal Muscles, Sit-up Performance, and Back Pain

Fast, Avital; Weiss, Lyn; Ducommun, Edmond J.; Medina, Eduardo Campos; Butler, John G.

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“…Previous reported studies have found than 10% of pregnant women have severe lumbo-pelvic pain that interferes with daily activities (Fast et al 1990) and the prevalence of pregnant women suffering from lumbo-pelvic pain is about 20% (Vleeming et al 2008;Grotle et al 2012). In the postpartum period reported lumbo-pelvic pain is expected to be high (Parker et al 2009) and it may affect between 9% and 48% (Bø and Backe-Hansen 2007) of women.…”

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“…However we did not perform a detailed pain-history (Fast et al 1990;Stafne et al 2012;Robinson et al 2014) and we did not make any clinical assessment to evaluate the condition, which may underestimate the results. On the other hand, the sample was drawn from a population attending pre-natal courses in private centers, and therefore was not definitive in its ability to delineate prevalence of lumbo-pelvic pain in other populations.…”

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Prevalence and risk factors of diastasis recti abdominis from late pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and relationship with lumbo-pelvic pain

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This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Mota, P., Pascoal, A. G., Carita, A., Bø, K. (2014). Prevalence and risk factors of diastasis recti abdominis from late pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and relationship with lumbo-pelvic pain. Manual Therapy. doi:10.1016/j.math.2014.09.002Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.sciencedirect.com: http://dx

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Prevalence and risk factors of diastasis recti abdominis from late pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and relationship with lumbo-pelvic pain

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“…The right and left sides of the abdominal wall are connected via the Linea Alba aponeurose. During pregnancy the Linea Alba reduces the resistance to tension and the two bellies of the rectus abdominis (RA) curve round the abdominal wall, increasing the midline separation of the two RA muscles along the Linea Alba (Boissonnault and Blaschak, 1988;Fast et al, 1990;Gilleard and Brown, 1996). This gap, the Inter Rectus Distance (IRD) is often referred as diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) (Noble, 1995;Spitznagle et al, 2007;Coldron et al, 2008).…”

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Reliability of the inter-rectus distance measured by palpation. Comparison of palpation and ultrasound measurements

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. (2013). Reliability of the inter-rectus distance measured by palpation: Comparison of palpation and ultrasound measurements. Manual Therapy, 18,[294][295][296][297][298] Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.sciencedirect.com: http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.math.2012.10.013 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.sciencedirect.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2012.10.013Reliability of the inter-rectus distance measured by palpation.Comparison of palpation and ultrasound measurements Patrícia Motaa, Augusto Gil Pascoal, Fátima Sancho, Ana Isabel Carita, Kari Bø AbstractAn increased inter-rectus distance (IRD) is a common condition in late pregnancy and in the postnatal period. The condition is difficult to assess. Palpation is the most commonly used method to assess IRD. To date there is scant knowledge of intra and inter-tester reliability of palpation to measure IRD and how palpation compares with ultrasound measurements.The aims of this study were: 1) evaluate intra and inter-rater reliability of abdominal palpation; 2) validate abdominal palpation of IRD measurements using ultrasound imaging as a reference.Two physiotherapists (PTs) conducted the palpation study in random order, blinded to each other's assessments. IRD was measured as finger widths between the two rectus abdominis (RA) muscles. Ultrasound images were recorded at the same locations as the palpation test. A blinded investigator measured the IRD offline.Palpation showed good intra-rater reliability between days expressed by a weighted Kappa (wK) higher than 0.7 for both physiotherapists, and moderate inter-rater reliability (wK = 0.534).Ultrasound was found to be more responsive for differences in IRD compared with values obtained by palpation.The intra-rater reliability was higher than the inter-rater reliability. Besides the difference in experience with palpation testing between the PTs, this result may be due to differences in finger width and/or the subjective interpretation of abdominal soft-tissues pressure. Ultrasound measures are highly sensitive to changes of IRD, which is not possible to replicate by palpation assessment using a finger width scale.Palpation has sufficient reliability to be used in clinical practice. However, ultrasound is a more accurate and valid method and is recommended in future research of IRD.

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“…Overall, the literature reveals that PPP deserves serious attention from the clinical and research communities, at all times and in all countries. 78,113], which may persist, or arise, after delivery [67], and will, in some patients, lead to severe disability [28,31,33,56,67,82,113]. Unfortunately, much remains unclear.…”

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Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPP), I: Terminology, clinical presentation, and prevalence

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IntroductionPregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain has puzzled medicine for a long time. More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 B.C.) theorised that an irreversible relaxation and widening of the pelvis occurs with the first pregnancy [50], the resultant instability of the sacroiliac joints leading to symptomatic inflammation [94].Recent literature suggests that around half of all pregnant women incur lumbopelvic pain [7, 31, 35, 62,

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Low-Back Pain in Pregnancy Abdominal Muscles, Sit-up Performance, and Back Pain

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Prevalence and risk factors of diastasis recti abdominis from late pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and relationship with lumbo-pelvic pain

Prevalence and risk factors of diastasis recti abdominis from late pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and relationship with lumbo-pelvic pain

Reliability of the inter-rectus distance measured by palpation. Comparison of palpation and ultrasound measurements

Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPP), I: Terminology, clinical presentation, and prevalence

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