Life after pregnancy back and pelvic pain

Pelvic girdle pain is as common as 7 out of every 10 pregnancies. That's a whopping 70% of pregnant women going about their day with anything from mild intermittent troubles, to barely being able to walk.

Pelvic girdle pain is often confused as back pain in pregnancy. If your pain is located more across your buttocks or over your tailbone/sacrum, or at the front of your pubic area, you are one of the stats. Pelvic girdle pain refers to the changes that occur in the 3 large pelvic joints due to pregnant postures, weaker support muscles for the pelvis in pregnancy, changing hormones and increasing weights in the pelvis that come with growing a little human.

Here are the facts:

👉 The sacro-iliac joints (SIJs) and pubic symphysis (PS) are the 3 joints of the pelvis. None, 1, 2 or all 3 of these joints can give a woman problem during her pregnancy. Yes, all at the same time!

👉 Most pelvic girdle pain experienced in pregnancy resolves after birth and the early weeks of the postpartum period. Hooray! YO will not be left with this pain for your whole life.

👉 If you are unlucky with 2 or more pelvic joints painful in your pregnancy, you are more likely to need physio and a longer time to recover after having your baby from pelvic pain. Never fear, things will settle with the right exercises and targeted physio treatments.

👉 Simple strategies when you're pregnant can make a huge difference to your pain levels if you feel you have pelvic girdle pain. These include targeted safe exercise in your pregnancy to build muscle support about the pelvic region. This is balanced with rest, avoiding standing on one leg, sleeping with a pillow between your legs and using 2 legs to get out of your car.

👉 Pelvic support or compression belts and tights work for almost all women suffering from pelvic girdle pain. For a few, belts can make the pain worse. So, see your pregnancy physio as she knows all the tricks and can prescribe the right exercise, belts and advice for you!

👉 So, yes! Your pelvis can feel the same after your pregnancy and labour.



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Draft 'Term 2 2021' Pilates timetable is subject to change.

These classes will run for 10 WEEKS in our BRAND NEW Dymocks Building studio.

Classes will commence from Tuesday 13th April 2021.

Classes for this term are recommended and scheduled for:

• Beginners Pilates for those new to postural strength and awareness.
  
• Intermediate/advanced level Pilates for challenging and functional postural control.
  
• Pregnancy specific Pilates

Classes will be mixed for all client types as listed above, and kept to a maximum of 4 per class.

Contact us for further information.

Jennifer is a wonderful CBD based nutritionist and mum too. She is passionate about nutritional medicine and working with other health practitioners for that holistic wellness in all she meets.

I love her approach to nutritional health. She loves:

• helping patients to enjoy balanced healthy eating - to help all to achieve their goals without restriction, which evens allows for celebrating, rebelling and enjoying treats.
• improving the understanding of how to maintain a healthy approach in the long term to nutrition, moving away from 'on a diet, off a diet' approach.
• to utilise the therapeutic use of certain foods, supplements and nutrients. A large focus of her treatment approach is the therapeutic effect of foods - rather than just their calorie or macro content.
• to live by her own teachings that when we eat well, we then have the energy to work towards our other life goals.