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Does Lifting Cause Prolapse?
Author(s) -
Smibert James
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1971.tb00474.x
Subject(s) - medicine , causation , philosophy , epistemology
Summary : It is often stated that lifting heavy weights results in an increase in intra‐abdominal pressure and is a cause of uterine prolapse. An experiment was designed to test this theory. No evidence was found that lifting weights alters intra‐abdominal pressure. If lifting weights does play a part in the causation of prolapse, it is not through elevation of intra‐abdominal pressure.