الفهرس 
Prventive strategies for work related low back pain pregnant physical therapists
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Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of preventive strategies for work related low back pain in pregnant physical therapists. Fifty one pregnant physical therapists participated in this study from Kafr Elshikh Governorate. Pregnant physical therapists divided randomly into two groups: control group 25 pregnant physical therapists who received only antenatal advices and study group 26 pregnant physical therapists who received antenatal advices plus preventive strategies for WRLBP and home routine consist of exercises training for LBP prevention for pregnant PTs for 10 min daily. All pregnant physical therapists were evaluated at 20, 24 and 32 weeks gestation by measuring pain intensity through numeric pain rating scale, functional disability through Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire, pelvic girdle pain through pelvic girdle questionnaire, pain distribution through physical examination, lumbar curvature angle and symphyseal width. The results of this study showed that there were significant increase in pain intensity, pelvic girdle pain, lumbar curvature angle and symphyseal width at 20, 24 and 32 weeks gestation in both groups while there was non-significant difference in functional disability in study group. However, there were no statistical significant difference between study and control groups in pain intensity, functional disability, pelvic girdle pain, lumbar curvature angle and symphyseal width. It can be concluded that preventive strategies for work related low back pain have no effect in work related low back pain during pregnancy among pregnant physical therapists