Pain and uterine contractions during breast feeding in the immediate post-partum period increase with parity

Pain

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 589-596

  Holdcroft, Anita ^a,d   Snidvongs, Saowarat ^a   Cason, Angie ^b   Doré, Caroline J ^c   Berkley, Karen J ^b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Lactation; Menstruation; Referred pain; Uterus; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST TENDERNESS; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSMENORRHEA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR PAIN; LACTATION; LOW BACK PAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARITY; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST FEEDING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0141887003     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(03)00116-7     Document Type: Article

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