Low‐Back Pain in Pregnancy Abdominal Muscles, Sit‐up Performance, and Back Pain
Low‐Back Pain in Pregnancy Abdominal Muscles, Sit‐up Performance, and Back Pain
复制标题
怀孕期间的腰痛 腹部肌肉、仰卧起坐表现和背痛
DOI:
10.1097/00007632-199001000-00008
复制
发表时间:
1990
期刊:
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
John G. Butler
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
A. Fast;L. Weiss;E. Ducommun;John G. Butler
An attempt was made to determine the effect of pregnancy on the abdominal muscles and to correlate changes in abdominal muscles strength with low-back pain during pregnancy. The study included 328 women. Group A consisted of 164 pregnant women; group B consisted of 164 non-pregnant women. The race, age, height, weight, parity, profession, time devoted to physical fitness per week, abdominal length, and relation between the abdominal length to height were recorded. A detailed history relating to backache prior to and during pregnancy was obtained. Each woman was asked to perform a single sit-up. The results of the study indicate that about 10% of pregnant women develop severe low-back pain that interferes with daily life activities. About 49% of the non-pregnant women complained of LBP. The pain did not interfere with activities of daily living. During pregnancy, due to overstretching of the abdominal muscles, the ability to perform a sit-up is significantly decreased. Whereas all non-pregnant women could perform a sit-up, 16.6% of pregnant women could not perform a single sit-up. There was no statistically significant correlation between the sit-up performance and backache. It may be concluded that during pregnancy the abdominal muscles become insufficient.