The Associations Between Functional Mobility, Dynamic Stability and Back Pain in Women After Caesarean Section Surgery

Abstract

Background. Lower back pain is more common in women who have undergone cesarean section surgery than in women whose childbirth was natural. The quality of life is better, and the level of disability is lower in women who have given birth naturally than those who have undergone cesarean section surgery.

The aim. To assess the relationship between women after cesarean section surgery for back pain, functional mobility, and dynamic.

Material and methods. Functional mobility, questionnaire survey, tests of dynamic trunk stability and static endurance, mathematical descriptive statistics.

Results. According to a questionnaire survey, the largest number of women after cesarean section surgery are tormented by lumbar spine pains (58 percent). As many as 6.1 percent of women feel unbearable pain. Half (n=6) of the women in the study had good functional mobility after cesarean section surgery, four were satisfactory and only two were unsatisfactory. Half (n=6) of the women in the study have  good dynamic torso stability after cesarean section surgery, five are satisfactory, and only one is unsatisfactory. All women (n=12) in the study complained of pain in the lumbar spine. In half (n=6) women who often felt pain in the lumbar spine, the dynamic stability was unsatisfactory. Meanwhile, for those who sometimes felt pain in the lumbar spine, the dynamic stability was satisfactory. The functional mobility of women who often felt pain in the lumbar spine was satisfactory.

Conclusions. All women who participated in the study of physical and functional condition after cesarean section surgery felt pain in the lower back and all had a discharge of the rectilinear abdominal muscles. Despite the above factors, functional mobility and dynamic and static stability of the torso in most cases were good enough. This may have led to the fact that all the women involved in the study in physical and functional condition were physically active after cesarean section surgery.

Keywords: caesarean section, low back pain, dynamic stability, functional mobility.