Tratamiento fisioterapéutico en mujeresembarazadas con dolor lumbar, desde las dieciocho semanas hasta las treinta y dos semanas de gestación que asisten a la Clínica Humanitaria Fundación Pablo Jaramillo Crespo, Cuenca 2014

Abstract

Background. Several pregnant patients experience back pain during pregnancy, it is not always adequately treated during prenatal care, considering its own symptom of pregnancy.

Objective. Apply physical therapy in pregnant women with low back pain, from eighteen to thirty- two weeks of gestation attending in Clínica Humanitaria Fundación Pablo Jaramillo Crespo, Cuenca 2014.

Materials and Methods. Conducted a quasi-experimental uncontrolled pre-post test study where the effectiveness of physical therapy was assessed by applying "EVA - Numerical" in pregnant patients between 18 and 35 years old with low back pain secondary to her pregnancy between 18 and 32 weeks gestation, receiving 10 sessions of physiotherapy treatment from initial assessment, intervening 3 times a week.

The extracted data were described by Descriptive Statistics with Central Tendency (mean, median, mode), dispersion (standard deviation), T-Test, and analyzed by SPSS 18.0.

Results. The study sample was 33 pregnant; average initial assessment of pain reported a EVA of 6.61 to 1.27 DS very different from the average evaluation final reported a VAS of 2.12 to 1.43 DS.

Conclusions. Physiotherapy application significantly decreases the low back pain in pregnant women.