Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain and its relation to muscle function
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.................................................................................................................. 1 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ......................................................................................... 3 DESCRIPTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ................................................................... 4 ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................................................................... 5 DEFINITIONS .............................................................................................................. 6 BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................... 8 Pelvic girdle pain ....................................................................................................... 8 Lumbopelvic instability ............................................................................................ 9 Muscle function in relation to PGP ....................................................................... 10 Feed-forward mechanism ...................................................................................... 12 Predictors ................................................................................................................. 14 Treatment of PGP ................................................................................................... 14 Specific stabilizing exercises ................................................................................. 15 Rationale for the thesis ........................................................................................... 16 AIMS OF THE THESIS ............................................................................................. 17 General aim .............................................................................................................. 17 Specific aims ............................................................................................................. 17 MATERIALS AND METHODS ............................................................................... 18 Design ....................................................................................................................... 18 Overview of the studies ........................................................................................... 18 Study I ................................................................................................................... 18 Study II .................................................................................................................. 18 Study III ................................................................................................................. 19 Subjects .................................................................................................................... 19 Study I ................................................................................................................... 19 Study II .................................................................................................................. 20 Study III ................................................................................................................. 20 Classification of PGP ............................................................................................ 22
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