Iva Sklempe Kokic, Marina Ivanisevic, Melita Uremovic, Tomislav Kokic, Rado Pisot, Bostjan Simunic
Department of Health Studies, College of Applied Sciences “Lavoslav Ruzicka” in Vukovar, 32000 Vukovar, Croatia. E-mail: ivasklempe@yahoo.com

DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2196

Exercise has beneficial effect on the severity of lumbopelvic pain in pregnancy

In this study we investigated whether exercise in pregnancy lowers the occurence and severity of low back pain and pelvic girdle pain. Our exercise intervention consisted of aerobic exercise on treadmill and resistance exercises which were performed twice per week. Pregnant women from the exercise group had less pain and disability caused by the low back pain and pelvic girdle pain in their final weeks of pregnancy in comparison to pregnant women from the group which did not exercise in pregnancy.