Do epidurals cause back pain?
Buggy, D.; MacEvilly, M.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine 56(2-3): 99-101
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0007-1064 PMID: 8832045 Document Number: 461670
Postpartum back pain may occur in up to 44% of women after childbirth. The increasing use of epidural analgesia during labour over the past 35 years has led many women and some doctors to attribute postpartum back pain to this. Such suggestions, if unfounded, may undermine parturients' confidence in epidural analgesia. However, the outcome of recent, randomized studies clearly shows that epidural analgesia does not cause back pain.