Pregnancy related MSK symptoms : Physiotherapeutic guidebook for first time pregnancy
Modig, Noora; Kankaanpää, Alexandra (2025)
2025
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025121838043
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025121838043
Tiivistelmä
The objective and aim of this thesis were to raise awareness of pregnancy related musculoskeletal symptoms in physiotherapy students at University of Applied Sciences, by creating a guidebook. Thus, to this topic being covered minimally during the physiotherapy studies, it was acknowledged by the authors that this topic should be covered more.
Pregnancies may cause a variety of different symptoms, which can be hemodynamical, anatomical, physiological, etc. Human body works as a kinetic chain and understanding this while working with pregnant women, is highly crucial to be able to provide effective physiotherapy.
In this thesis, potential musculoskeletal symptoms that may occur during pregnancy were covered. The symptoms decided for this thesis were selected by listing pregnancy-related musculoskeletal symptoms and discovering the most common ones. Information and data for the theory part of the thesis were searched by using mapping review. The data was then collected to the theory part, from which the main points were added to the guidebook of the thesis.
As a result of the thesis, a guidebook was created, and it was provided for the use of physiotherapy students at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.
Pregnancies may cause a variety of different symptoms, which can be hemodynamical, anatomical, physiological, etc. Human body works as a kinetic chain and understanding this while working with pregnant women, is highly crucial to be able to provide effective physiotherapy.
In this thesis, potential musculoskeletal symptoms that may occur during pregnancy were covered. The symptoms decided for this thesis were selected by listing pregnancy-related musculoskeletal symptoms and discovering the most common ones. Information and data for the theory part of the thesis were searched by using mapping review. The data was then collected to the theory part, from which the main points were added to the guidebook of the thesis.
As a result of the thesis, a guidebook was created, and it was provided for the use of physiotherapy students at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.