Overview
- Presents a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to pregnancy-related muscuskeletal medicine, including physiologic changes, etiology, diagnosis, and management strategies for pain and injury
- Covers anatomic and hormonal changes, imaging, interventional procedures, labor and delivery considerations, and exercise during pregnancy and postpartum
- Includes long-term implications and current and future directions for research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
- Cesarean section
- Coccydynia
- Dyspareunia
- Hormonal changes in the musculoskeletal system
- Lumbopelvic pain during pregnancy
- Musculoskeletal health in pregnancy
- Musculoskeletal health postpartum
- Musculoskeletal injury during pregnancy
- Pelvic floor myofacial pain
- Pelvic girdle pain
- Perineal injury
- Postpartum pain
- Pubic symphysis pain
- Pudendal neuropathy
- Sacral stress
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Vulvodynia
About this book
Providing clinicians with a comprehensive, evidence-based summary of musculoskeletal health in pregnancy and postpartum, this is the first book of its kind to describe the physiologic changes, prevalence, etiology, diagnostic strategies, and effective treatments for the most common musculoskeletal clinical conditions encountered during this phase of life. Lumbopelvic pain, upper and lower extremity diagnoses, labor and delivery considerations, including the impact on the pelvic floor, and medical therapeutics will be discussed. Additionally, the importance and influence of exercise in pregnancy, the long-term implications of musculoskeletal health in pregnancy and current and future directions for research will be addressed.
The childbearing period is a time of remarkable reproductive and musculoskeletal change, predisposing women to potential injury, pain, and resultant disability. Musculoskeletal Health in Pregnancy and Postpartum offers musculoskeletal medicine specialists, obstetricians and any clinicians involved in the care of pregnant or postpartum women the tools necessary to prepare for, treat and prevent these concurrent injuries during an already challenging time.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Colleen M. Fitzgerald, MD, MS, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA
Neil A. Segal, MD, MS, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Musculoskeletal Health in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based Guide for Clinicians
Editors: Colleen M. Fitzgerald, Neil A. Segal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14319-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14318-7Published: 14 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34739-4Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14319-4Published: 04 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Rheumatology