Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Unless you have suffered back problems prior to being pregnant, or during previous pregnancies, it is uncommon to have any in the early stages. In the mid to later stages, women develop an increase in their lumbar curvature as their centre of gravity changes with their increasing bump. The other curves of the back and neck also increase due to compensation, and this puts more pressure on some of the joints of the spine causing discomfort, and for some women pain. A hormone called relaxin is released during pregnancy which softens the muscles, ligaments and tendons in order to prepare for birth. As pregnancy progresses into the final stages the increasing size of your bump combined with looser ligaments make it easy to overstretch, or to find that lifting something is more of a problem than normal.
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic
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Back & Neck Pain During Pregnancy - The Whitchurch Clinic