Pelvic and low back pain in pregnancy

Pelvic and low back pain may occur during pregnancy. Pelvic joints softened namely during pregnancy and it is a normal process that extends the pelvis. Some women have painful problems – others feel nothing at all. If you have problems or discomfort, ask your midwife for advice.

During pregnancy, the body prepares itself for birth by producing more of the hormone relaxin. The hormone makes the tendons, ligaments and connective tissues are softened. Among other things, relaxes pelvic joints up and becomes more elastic. This is done to the pelvis should be extended. In addition to the hormonal changes that occur and that can cause discomfort, also changing posture due to the increased weight that pregnancy brings. This could mean an additional burden on low back and pelvis.

All pregnant women have an effect on the connective tissue. All may not be troubled by this, but some get it and it can affect anyone at any time during pregnancy. It has been shown that women who were physically active on a regular basis before pregnancy are less likely to have low back pain during and after pregnancy.

If you have had a job with heavy lifting or have had low back pain in early life are at higher risk. Have you had low back or pelvic problems during previous pregnancies, the risk is too big to get trouble the next time you get pregnant. Multiple pregnancies increase the risk. Some women experience pain early in pregnancy, but it is most common in the second half.

Symptoms
The pelvis
When the pelvic joints soften the pelvis becomes more mobile and unstable. Often, you get pain in your lower back, into the buttocks or the front of the pubic bone to the groin.
Other symptoms may include that you:

• find it hard to go fast
• unable to take long strides
• get pain of climbing stairs
• have difficulty turning over in bed or lying on your back
• find it difficult to stand up from sitting and problems when you sit down.

Lumbar spine
Lumbar spine-related pain may not always be related to pregnancy but may have existed previously and may be caused by improper posture, that you pick the wrong, injury, or weak and tight muscles. This might burden the joints, ligaments and disks. The pain is often located above the lower back, and you can experience it as dull.
Other symptoms may include that you:

• gets more evil to the end of day
• get pain when bending forward
• can not withdraw the motion in the lower back as much as before.

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