Effect of global postural reeducation treatment of lumbar pain during pregnancy / O efeito da reeducação postural global no tratamento da lombalgia durantes a gestação

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Low back pain is considered a common condition in the general population and it is a frequent symptom during pregnancy. Recent studies pointed out that 80% of pregnant women reported low back and pelvic pain, while 51% of them had a pain level that significantly interfered with their physical abilities and quality of life. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) in low back pain treatment during pregnancy, its association with pregnancy evolution and pregnant women functional limitations. Subjects and Methods: A clinical comparative and exploratory study was carried out with 34 nulliparous women attended in 3 public health units and 1 private hospital in Campinas. All women were at 20-25 weeks gestation and experiencing low back pain. They were allocated to two groups: 17 women were submitted to 8 GPR weekly consecutive sessions and 17 followed the routine recommendations for treating lumbar pain. In each GPR session the low back pain severity was assessed, before and after procedures. The control group was followed-up for the same period and had 3 low back pain intensity and treatment evaluation sessions (at admission, 4 and 8 weeks). Roland Morris questionnaire was applied to both groups in order to assess functional limitations in the beginning and at the end of follow-up. Results: Women in the GPR group had a significant decrease of low back pain severity, before and after each session. Throughout the study, women in the GPR group had significantly lower pain medians and lower functional limitations score means than women in the control group. Covariance analysis pointed out that GPR treatment was strongly associated to lower perceived pain intensity at the end of the follow-up. (87% versus 12% respectively). Conclusions: GPR can be an effective alternative for treating low back pain during pregnancy, with the advantage of not interfering with the gestational period. GPR can be an important contribution to the low back pain treatment during pregnancy and also it would help to reduce the damage caused by functional limitations. The proposed duration of treatment (8 weeks) was enough for pain control, but as the observation was limited to that period, we can not know for how long the pain remission persisted

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pregnant women cuidado pre-natal prenatal care gravidez low back pain fisioterapia pregnancy dor lombar gestantes physiotherapy

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