After pregnancy, every woman experience joint pains in the entire body parts like hands, wrist, feet, knees, hip and ankles. The pain can be either due to the delivery complications you had while giving birth to a baby or in the recovery time due to negligence of some precautions. Your joints tend to be affected by the chemical changes that take place in the entire body system during pregnancy and delivery. They became loose and apparently pain while you perform any activities like walking, stretching, standing, bending and sitting.

Being an orthopaedic surgeon from past a few decades, Dr Niraj Vora always advises women to take special care of their joints to avoid complications in knees and hip areas.

You are sure to experience the pain in joints but you can manage that discomfort by taking certain precautions after delivery and most of the post pregnancy joint pains do not last for long time.

The reason why the joints loosen up is because the body pushes the baby through a not so large space, a hormone is released. The Relaxin hormone is god gift that flexes the women’s body while delivering the baby, but it can lead to laxity in the joints. It can sometimes cause permanent damage if postpartum joint health is ignored. Lot of women experience looser than normal joints during and after pregnancy.

Few tips for managing Joint Pains after Pregnancy and Delivery:

1. Before you plan to get pregnant, maintain a routine of daily exercise and strengthening your muscles and bones but with prior advice from your physician or gynecologist. It helps women to maintain to good joint health during pregnancy and postpartum.
2. Always try to be active during pregnancy and try to handle simple day to day work activities by self so that it keeps your mind and body in perfect shape.
3. It is better to use belts that stabilize joints in the hips and pelvis.
4. Try to know your body postures and avoid postures that give your body strain and stress.

Dr Niraj Vora focuses that if the knee pain is chronic and keeping you away from performing your regular activities. It is necessary you consult an orthopaedic surgeon who can help you to get rid of the problem either through medication or in severe cases, a knee replacement surgery only to regain your active lifecycle. You can Follow @DrNirajVora to get updates on health issues related to orthopaedic problems to both Men and Woman.