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Back Pain During Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Spankus Jd
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of midwifery and women's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1542-2011
pISSN - 1526-9523
DOI - 10.1111/jmwh.12597
Subject(s) - pregnancy , medicine , obstetrics , biology , genetics
Why Do Pregnant Women Have Back Pain? Pregnancy hormones loosen all of your joints. Your growing abdomen changed your posture. These changes can increase the normal curves that are in your back, which can cause back pain. Later in pregnancy the looser joints in the pelvis move more from the growing weight of your baby and this can cause general pain in your lower back and sometimes shooting pain in your buttock or upper legs.