To treat or not to treat postpartum pelvic girdle pain with stabilizing exercises?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-343

  Stuge, Britt ^a   Holm, Inger ^a,b   Vøllestad, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Postpartum pelvic girdle pain; Stabilizing exercises

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACK MUSCLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMOTION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; JOINT MOBILIZATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTPARTUM PAIN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PELVIC PAIN; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

EID: 33750286709     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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