Challenges of the pregnant athlete and low back pain

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-48

  Noon, Megan L ^a   Hoch, Anne Z ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PARACETAMOL; RELAXIN;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; APPENDICITIS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE NECROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIBROMYALGIA; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERVOLEMIA; ISCHIALGIA; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT MOBILIZATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MASSAGE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; OSTEITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPRAIN; STENOSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERUS MYOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SPORTS;

EID: 84858419536     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31824330b6     Document Type: Article

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