Impact of postpartum exercise on pelvic floor disorders and diastasis recti abdominis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of exercise during the first year postpartum on pelvic floor disorders and diastasis recti abdominis.

Design

Systematic review with random effects meta-analysis.

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SPORTDiscuss, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (Ovid), Scopus, Web of Science and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched until 12 January 2024.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Studies of all designs (except case studies) and languages were included if they contained information on the Population (individuals in the first year postpartum), Intervention (subjective or objective measures of frequency, intensity, duration, volume or type of exercise alone ('exercise-only') or in combination with other intervention (eg, biofeedback; '

SUBMITTER: Beamish NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12013572 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature