ISSN: 2167-0420
						Daisuke Matsumoto
	
					    												
Japan						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Comparison of Pelvic Alignment among Never-Pregnant Women, Pregnant Women and Postpartum Women (Pelvic Alignment and Pregnancy) 						
Author(s): Moe Yamaguchi, Saori Morino, Shu Nishiguchi, Naoto Fukutani, Yuto Tashiro, Hidehiko Shirooka, Yuma Nozaki, Hinako Hirata, Daisuke Matsumoto and Tomoki Aoyama
Moe Yamaguchi, Saori Morino, Shu Nishiguchi, Naoto Fukutani, Yuto Tashiro, Hidehiko Shirooka, Yuma Nozaki, Hinako Hirata, Daisuke Matsumoto and Tomoki Aoyama
             
						
												
				 Objective: To compare the pelvic alignment among never-pregnant women, pregnant women, and postpartum women.
Methods: A total of 177 nulliparous women (mean age, 18.9 ± 1.0 years), 45 pregnant women between the third and tenth month of pregnancy (mean age, 29.4 ± 3.8 years), and 124 primiparous women between the first and sixth months after delivery (mean age, 30.1 ± 4.4 years) were enrolled in this study. Pelvic alignment was measured by using the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) as landmarks. The bilateral difference of pelvic tilt was defined as pelvic asymmetry (PA), the distance between bilateral ASIS was defined as the anterior width of the pelvis (AWP), and the distance between the bilateral PSIS was defined as the posterior width of the pelvis (PWP).
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												DOI:
												 10.4172/2167-0420.1000294