International Journal of Women's Health Care(IJWHC)

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Publications

• Research Article   
  Management of Antenatal Pelvic Girdle Pain Study (MAPS): A Double Blinded, Randomised Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of Two Pelvic Orthoses
  Author(s): Lee Cameron*, Jonathan Marsden, Karen Watkins and Jenny Freeman
  
  Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) occurs in 70% of pregnant women; of whom 25% have severe pain and 8% severe disability requiring the use of crutches, wheelchair or confinement to bed [1]. Patients with pregnancy related PGP have been shown to have increased pelvic joint motion compared with healthy pregnant controls, probably due to a combination of hormonal and biomechanical factors, leading to an increase in pelvic joint laxity, changes in lumbopelvic posture and increase in shearing forces through pelvic joints, thus leading to pain [2,3]. .. Read More»
  

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