Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy: How Women Can Heal Chronic Pelvic Instability
Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy: How Women Can Heal Chronic Pelvic Instability Books
- ISBN13: 9780897934800
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Pregnancy weakens the ligaments that keep the pelvic bones together. If those weakened ligaments become overloaded or injured, it consequences in pelvic instability — pain nearly the joints that can be brief or last for years after the birth. In 1996, Cecile Röst, who suffered from this shape up herself, devised a treatment program that is simple, home based, and proven to work. Her book, with over 100 illustrations and detailed testimonials, is divided into two parts. The first part shows simple exercises for symmetry and stabilization, and the proper way to lie, sit, and get out of a car in order to preclude pelvic instability during pregnancy. Patients can do these exercises and positions with or without a care source’s help. Part two, aimed at care providers, shows the consequences of a survey carried out among 200 women suffering from pelvic complaints. Here the author also presents a theoretical treatise of pelvic pain, the protocol of the first consult, and the contents of the therapy, including a sports program.
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Physiotherapist Cecile Rost presents Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy: How Women Can Heal Chronic Pelvic Instability, a undemanding guide written for patients and their health care providers. Black-and-white diagrams illustrate simple exercises that have successfully relieved pelvic pain and its correlated symptoms for the author herself as well as ninety percent of her clients. Chapters discuss recommendations for preventing pelvic pain and dysfunction, tips on what to guess during and after delivery, pelvic exercises including symmetry exercises, stabilization exercises, and pelvic-floor exercises, and advice especially for therapists discussing everything from risk factors to post pregnancy care. In addition to exercises, Relieving Pelvic Pain During and After Pregnancy also has invaluable recommendations for preventing or reducing strain, such as illustrated step-by-step instructions for physically picking up one’s child from bed (“Stand diagonally in relation to the bed. Legs are turned slightly outward. Bend at the knees and hips into a semisquatting position even as maintenance the spine honest. Position the baby as close to you as possible. Then pick the baby up and straighten your knees and hips even as still maintenance your back honest.”) An absolute “must-have” for current and aspiring mothers, especially not compulsory as a baby shower gift.
Rating: 5 / 5
Most of the time when people question what has happened to me and I say that I developed Severe Pelvic Instabilty during pregnancy, they have no thought what I am talking about. So it is wonderful to have a resource available by someone who not only knows what it is, but has experienced it as well.
This book goes through some of the factors that may have contributed to your development of PI, it clarifies what just so is happening within your pelvis, and has a program of exercises to help relieve the pain and stabilize the pelvis. It also has a lot of fascinating research and studies that the autor has conducted, and is separated into two sections – for the sufferer and for her therapist.
I have found it an fascinating and insightful read, but it does not replace the care and advice of a health professional. It also doesn’t give much advice or attention to Symphysis Pubis joint (the front of the pelvis) complaints, focusing on the Sacroilic joints (where the pelvis meets the spine). As I have both, some of the suggestions and advice are the complete opposite of things that helped me with the Symphysis Pubis pain.
Even though I am still suffering from PI problems, I have found this book very helpful and would urge it to every woman suffering from pelvic pain. Now that I am getting a small more mobile I intend to try more of these exercises and techniques, and if I can avoid a wheelchair, bedrest, crutches and a long recovery for our next child, then any effort is worth it!
Rating: 4 / 5
Having suffered with Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (a.k.a. SPD, Diastis Symphysis Pubis, pelvic girdle pain, and pregnancy-correlated pelvic pain) for most of two pregnancies now, I was very intrigued by this book that my sister gave me for Christmas. It was written by a corporal therapist from the Netherlands who has had pelvic problems during her own pregnancies, and developed exercises to reduce the pain of SPD.
One of the most fascinating things about this book is that it goes counter to what I’ve often read (frequently on the Internet, since this is the first book I’ve ever come across that discussed this come forth). Most advice runs by the side of the lines of “keep your knees together ALL THE TIME.” Rolling over, getting out of the car, when seated, etc. The author of this book says that this only exacerbates the problem (which is caused by misalignment in the sacro-iliac joint) and that symmetrical and stabilized movement is most vital. Many of the exercises involve a knees-apart posture (which I would have plotting would be excruciating to me, but I’ve found they really help!), stretching and strengthening the muscles nearly the hips to help stabilize them.
I like the author’s methodology (large-scale research, well documented) and private approach. I do have some beefs with the book, including a less-than-ideal layout (illustrations for exercises on different pages than the explanations) and some vagueness in the directions for the exercises (how long do I hold it? how many repetitions? how far away from me should my feet be? should I hold my back flat to the floor? Etc.) Overall, but, I felt the book was both a excellent overview of the causes of pregnancy-correlated pelvic pain that included an in-depth look of how it affects the lives of those who live with it. It has sections for both the layperson/patient and for corporal therapists (I’m taking it with me the next time I go to PT). It’s a excellent resource for those of us who have SPD and don’t want to end up in a wheelchair or on crutches by the end of our pregnancies.
I’ve tried the basic Symmetry and Stabilization exercises, and found them to be very helpful in relieving pain when I feel “out of whack.” Also, as a result of the section on how SPD affects lifestyle, I have tried not to limit my range of motion even as limiting the stress that I place on my pelvis. (One of the effects that SPD often has is to make you feel as if you will really hurt yourself if you go beyond a very limited range of motion, which is why I would have appreciated more explicit directions for the exercises.) Some of the basic “body mechanics” techniques I have found particularly helpful, especially the “how to roll over in bed” maneuver. I can now roll in bed relatively pain free (!) – which was impossible without outside help in my last pregnancy.
I would urge this book to anyone who has had pelvic pain during or after pregnancy – I wish I’d had it with my first pregnancy.
Rating: 4 / 5
As a healthcare source I am very excited about a book addressing pregnancy correlated pelvic pain! It is very frustrating to have a woman in your office tearful and in pain at just the time she should be anticipating the joyous arrival of her new baby and feel that there are very few tools at your disposal to help her. Often at that top I find that women are so exhausted and aggravated by their shape up that a referral to corporal therapy is unwelcome – as she feels she “hurts too much to exercise” and that adding “another thing to do” merely adds to her burden. Reviewing the “symmetry” and “stabilization” exercises in the office will be a excellent starting top and hopefully provide some encouragement.
In reading honest through the book I have some suggestions that might make the next edition more user-friendly. The illustrations in the book are very, very helpful and necessary in instructing women who are not familiar with the “medical” language (transverse abdominals, internal rotation, abduction, etc). In several cases, but, the instructions for doing an exercise were located on a different page than the illustration and necessitated flipping back and forth, which is especially aggravating if you are following by the side of and really attempting to physically DO the exercise at the same time (which I was). Also, adding an “Exercising at Home” summary at the end of the book (like the “How to Test Yourself” section) that women may possibly refer to would be helpful – perhaps even a tear-out mini-poster to tape to the wall?
Aside from a few nit-picky details (such as “In Figure 6.1C should we really be having her look UP, exaggerating the cervical lordosis, rather than tucking the chin downward and continue the stretching and straightening of the spine?” ) I found the in rank in the book to be excellent and helpful. I reckon that the passages describing the exercises and methods to ease daily activities would be more “patient-friendly” if the explanations of how the different bones are interacting were left for the end. Also, I wanted to see a few examples of how NOT to do the exercises (avoiding common pitfalls – i.e. “Make sure you bend from HERE and not from THERE”) as the author has instructed many clients I am sure she has seen all the ways people can do them WRONG.
Thank you to Cecile Rost for writing a book addressing this below-addressed problem.
I bought this book via the Early Reviewer program on LibraryThing and review is also posted there.
Rating: 3 / 5