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Acupuncture and strengthening exercises help relieve pelvic girdle ache during pregnancy and are gear complements to
requirement treatment, finds a study published online by the BMJ today.

Pelvic girdle irritation is a common complaint among pregnant women worldwide, but no medicament exists.

Researchers in Sweden identified 386 pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain. Women were randomly divided into three groups;
everybody received standard treatment (a pelvic belt and a accommodation exercise programme), another received definitive treatment coupled with
acupuncture, and the third received standard treatment plus stabilising exercises to improve mobility and strength.

Despair levels were recorded every morning and evening using a recognised scale and all women were assessed by an independent
examiner at the end of the treatment period.

After treatment, both the acupuncture group and the stabilising working-out accumulation had less headache than the pennant group in the
morning and in the evening. Reduction of pelvic girdle pain as assessed by the independent examiner was greatest in the
acupuncture batch.

Acupuncture or stabilising exercises as an adjunct to archetype treatment offers clear clinical advantages over standard
treatment only for reduction of headache in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain, say the authors.

Acupuncture was higher-level to stabilising exercises in this ponder, they conclude.

Online First
(Effects of acupuncture and stabilising
exercises as adjunct to footing treatment in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain: randomised single blind controlled
trial)