Evidence-Based Methods to Prevent and Relieve Back Pain

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Newborn, Parent, Homebirth, Vbac, Kids & Family, Doula, Firsttimemom, Midwife, Pregnancy, Doctor, Parenting, Pregnant, Vanessamerten, Physician, Csection, Prenatalcare, Breastfeeding, Naturalbirth, Nursing, Birthcenter, Family, Baby, Hospitalbirth, Health, Obgyn, Research, Trimester, Expecting, Labor, Mom, Diet, Dad, Birth

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Many physical changes during pregnancy can impact your back and cause pain or discomfort. Back pain during pregnancy is almost always lower back pain within three categories: lumbar spine pain, posterior pelvic pain, or a combination of these two. The prevalence of back pain in pregnant women is estimated to be 50% in the first trimester, 40-70% in the second, and 70-80% in the third trimester. Just because back pain is common doesn’t mean you should have to suffer through it. This episode will discuss the causes of back pain during pregnancy, considerations for prevention, and techniques and tools to relieve pregnancy back pain.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Mert.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking about preventing and relieving back pain.
0:20.0	Back pain during pregnancy is incredibly common. In the first trimester it's estimated to be 50%.
0:26.4	It increases to 40 to 70% in the second trimester and by the third tr, it's estimated that 70 to 80 percent of expecting
0:35.6	moms have some type of back pain.
0:38.8	Just because it's common does not mean that you should have to suffer through it.
0:42.9	So in today's episode, we're going to talk
0:44.9	about all of the different causes of back pain
0:47.3	during pregnancy.
0:48.6	We're going to talk about a lot of considerations
0:51.0	for prevention, things like the sleeping positions that you're in, how you're
0:55.2	sitting, how you're moving, and we're going to go through a lot of techniques and tools that
1:00.1	you can try to relieve some back pain during pregnancy.
1:04.3	You can find the full article and all of the resources, links to research, everything that accompanies
1:10.2	this episode at pregnancy podcast
1:13.2	slash back pain.
1:16.5	You are currently listening to the public feed of the podcast.
1:19.9	That means you have access to the last year of episodes,
1:23.6	and you'll hear advertisements from the sponsors
1:25.9	that support this show.
1:27.9	As you're gonna hear in today's episode,
1:29.7	there is a pile of research packed into this topic.
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