Pain related to the pelvic joints is common among pregnant women in Norway and may cause serious functional problems.

The results indicate that acupuncture reduces the experience of pain in labor. A secondary outcome of acupuncture was a shorter delivery time, which mainly, if not exclusively, can be explained by the reduced need for epidural analgesia. Acupuncture may be useful for parturients who wish a nonpharmacological analgesia without side-effects. For others it could be the analgesic method of choice, with pharmacological analgesics as supplements.

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<strong><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><p align="left"> </p></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">SAMMENDRAG</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><p align="left">Smerter i bekkenregionen under graviditet representerer en epidemiologisk utfordring. Avgrensing overfor</p><p align="left">smerter i nedre del av rygg er uklar, likeledes patogenese og etiologi. Artikkelen setter søkelyset på</p><p align="left">medisinske og sosiokulturelle forhold knyttet til fenomenet. Noen nordiske prevalensdata bl.a. fra</p><p align="left">spørreskjemaundersøkelsen "Graviditet og arbeid" blir brukt som illustrasjon. Artikkelen konkluderer med</p><p align="left">forslag til videre forskning.</p></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><p align="left"> </p></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">ENGLISH SUMMARY</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><p align="left">Heiberg E, Stray-Pedersen B.</p></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><p align="left"> </p></span></span><p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">Is pelvic pain during pregnancy a strain syndrome?</span></span></strong><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><p align="left">Nor J Epidemiol</p></span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><p align="left"> </p></span></em></span><p align="left"> </p></em><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">1997; </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">7 </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">(1): 117-121.<p align="left">Pain in the area of the pelvic girdle during pregnancy represents a challenge for epidemiologic research.</p><p align="left">Clinically the type of pain related to the pelvic girdle differs from that of low back pain, even if the two</p><p align="left">types of pain often occur together. Pathogenesis and etiology of pelvic pain in pregnancy is unclear. The</p><p align="left">article draws attention to biomedical as well as sociocultural factors associated with the phenomenon.</p><p align="left">Some Nordic prevalence data, among them the Norwegian questionnaire study "Pregnancy and Work" are</p><p>used as illustrations. The article suggests areas for further research.</p></span></span></p>