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Article: No association between previous Caesarean-section delivery and back pain in mid-aged Australian women: an observational study.(Research)(Report)
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- Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Introduction
The prevalence of low back pain during pregnancy is estimated to be between 36% and 69% (Wang et al 2004, Orvieto et al 2004, and Stapleton, MacLennan and Kristiansson 2002). Noren et al (2004) found that 20% of all women had back pain at three years postpartum. Of these women, one-third had lumbar back pain, 44% had posterior pelvic pain, and 23% had both. No association between Caesarean section and low back pain has been found at 24 weeks (Thompson et al 2002) or 24 months postpartum (To and Wong 2003). However, there have been no studies looking at the long term association. Furthermore, there are no studies comparing Caesarean section and ...