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Title: Body perception disturbances in women with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain and their role in the persistence of pain postpartum
Authors: GOOSSENS, Nina 
Geraerts, Inge
Vandenplas, Lizelotte
Van Veldhoven, Zahra
Asnong, Anne
JANSSENS, Lotte 
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: BMC
Source: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21 (1) (Art N° 219)
Abstract: Background Lumbopelvic pain (LPP) is common during pregnancy and can have long-lasting negative consequences in terms of disability and reduced quality of life. Therefore, it is crucial to identify women at risk of having pregnancy-related LPP after childbirth. This study aimed to investigate the association between body perception, pain intensity, and disability in women with pregnancy-related LPP during late pregnancy and postpartum, and to study whether a disturbed body perception during late pregnancy predicted having postpartum LPP. Methods A prospective cohort study in 130 primiparous women (median age = 30 years) was performed. Pain intensity, disability, and lumbopelvic body perception during the last month of pregnancy and 6 weeks postpartum were assessed with the Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS), Oswestry Disability Index, and Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire, respectively. Having pregnancy-related LPP was defined as an NPRS score >= 1/10. At both timepoints, women were categorized into three groups; pain-free, LPP with low disability, and LPP with high disability (based on Oswestry Disability Index scores). At each timepoint, body perception was compared between groups, and correlations between body perception, pain intensity, and disability were evaluated in women with LPP by using non-parametric tests. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine whether body perception during the last month of pregnancy predicted the presence of LPP 6 weeks postpartum. Results Women with LPP at the end of pregnancy, and 6 weeks postpartum reported a more disturbed body perception compared to pain-free women (p <= 0.005). Greater body perception disturbance correlated with higher pain intensity (sigma = 0.266, p = 0.008) and disability (sigma = 0.472, p < 0.001) during late pregnancy, and with pain intensity 6 weeks postpartum (sigma = 0.403, p = 0.015). A disturbed body perception during late pregnancy nearly significantly predicted having postpartum LPP (Odds Ratio = 1.231, p = 0.052). Conclusions Body perception disturbance was greater in women experiencing LPP during late pregnancy and postpartum compared to pain-free women, and correlated with pain intensity and disability. Though non-significant (p = 0.052), the results of the regression analysis suggest that greater body perception disturbance during late pregnancy might predict having LPP postpartum. However, future studies should follow up on this.
Keywords: Lumbopelvic pain;Body perception;Disability;Pain intensity;Pregnancy;Postpartum;Primipara
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/33709
e-ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-021-03704-w
ISI #: WOS:000631115700002
Rights: The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2022
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