Can back pain caused by symptom-giving sacroiliac joint relaxation during pregnancy be reduced by applying osteopathic treatment?
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Can back pain caused by symptom-giving
sacroiliac joint relaxation during
pregnancy be reduced by applying
osteopathic treatment? - Author(s)
- Aspalter Wolfgang
- Abstract
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Objective: My objective was to test the hypothesis whether it is possible to reduce
the symptom-giving sacroiliac joint relaxation in pregnancy with osteopathic
treatment and whether three therapy sessions are adequate for this purpose.
Design: This is an empirical study with non-randomised sampling (haphazard
sample) applying within subject design.
Subjects and methods: 14 pregnant women with symptom-giving sacroiliac joint
relaxation were examined from the 12th week of pregnancy till the 34th week of
pregnancy. Before the therapy they were observed during one reference week with
regard to pain intensity and quality of life. Observation took place also after the
therapy.
Interventions: Three therapy sessions took place in intervals of one to two weeks.
Observation was based on questionnaires answered before the therapy sessions and
after each treatment. The pregnant women were tested by means of manual
examinations before the series of therapy sessions and after the last observation
period.
Results: Very significant improvement of the primary dependent variables, i.e. pain
intensity and quality of life, was observed after the series of therapy sessions.
Various manual examinations also indicated that significant improvement of the
symptom-giving SIJ relaxation in pregnancy was achieved.
Conclusion: Three osteopathic therapy sessions are necessary for the treatment of
symptom-giving SIJ relaxation in pregnancy in order to reach significant
improvement.
Key words: pregnancy, sacroiliac joint, relaxation, pelvic pain, osteopathy, clinical
tests. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2008
- Date Submitted
- 1.9.2008 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 88
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13702
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Pregnancy,Sacroiliac Joint
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- Aspalter_Englisch.pdf
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- Aspalter_Englisch.pdf
Aspalter Wolfgang, “Can back pain caused by symptom-giving sacroiliac joint relaxation during pregnancy be reduced by applying osteopathic treatment?”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 8, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/2980