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JANUARY 13, 2023

Pregnancy History Linked to More Chronic Back Pain

Results from a new study indicate that women who have given birth may have a higher incidence of chronic back pain (CBP) than those who did not.

“Women who experience back pain prior to pregnancy are at the highest risk for chronic back pain after childbirth,” researcher Pamela Flood, MD, a professor of anesthesiology and perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., told Pain Medicine News

To evaluate the relationship between history of