ArticleCureus2020
Estimating the Mobility of the Michaelis Sacral Rhombus in Pregnant Women.
Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Abstract
Pelvic mobility is the cornerstone of an adequate birth canal for safe childbirth, and midwives invite pregnant women to assume loading positions to facilitate delivery. Biomechanics asserts that pelvic space changes in shifting positions from erect to the squat position. The current standard practice in obstetrics and osteopathy provides a qualitative observational assessment of the dimension of Michaelis sacral rhombus in shifting positions; a previous report presented a clinical method and instrument to estimate the pelvic range of motion through finger contact on bone landmarks. The present study aims to match the measurement of the diameters of the sacral area of Michaelis from skin marks with the amount from bone landmarks. Methods estimate the sacral area from 100 pregnant women in the late trimester, considering the dimension of the diameters, the range of motion, and the patterns of mobility. Differences resulted in the methods: measuring the skin marks in shifting positions revealed a not significant difference between starting position and squat position. The measurements through the finger contact on the bone landmarks seem to be adequate to estimate pelvic mobility fulfilling the expectation from biomechanics literature.
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