Associate Professor Izzy Moore and Grainne Donnelly discuss running during and after pregnancy and provide practical tips and great resources for clinicians treating pregnant and post-partum women. How can you ask about pelvic health? What is the role of a musculoskeletal clinician? How can we ensure less women suffer in silence?
Original research: Multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial factors contributing to return to running and running related stress urinary incontinence in postpartum women https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/22/1286.info
Editorial: Multidisciplinary, biopsychosocial factors contributing to return to running and running related stress urinary incontinence in postpartum women: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34836883/
2019 return to running guideline https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2020.03.276
Return to running BJSM infographic - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/18/1114
Run ready post-partum BJSM blogs
https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/05/20/ready-steadygo-ensuring-postnatal-women-are-run-ready/ and https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2021/08/22/return-to-running-following-childbirth-when-the-principles-of-sports-medicine-and-pelvic-health-collide/
Pelvic health impact questionnaire https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16021067/
Canadian guidelines - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/21/1339
Clinical commentary considering the whole system readiness for running post-partum https://journals.lww.com/jwhpt/Abstract/2022/01000/Beyond_the_Musculoskeletal_System__Considering.7.aspx
