Excercises for SPD
Hi, I was hoping someone could help. I was recently diagnosed with spd and prescribed painkillers and lot's of rest by my doctor (difficult as I have a toddler). I asked if there were any special excercises I could do and he said it's best not to do any. However I was reading up on spd and alot of info says people are often refered to a physio and given excercises to do. I live abroad and if I wanted to see a physio would have to go privately so was wondering what they say in the uk? Would you let me know what excercises they advise if possible? And any other tips appreciated, xxx
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I had really bad SPD when I was pregnant with Tommy and was advised NOT to exercise. Physio did nothing but give me crutches which were helpful til the later stages but then I ended up in a wheelchair.
I would recommend you dont do anything that might aggrivate the condition anymore that you need to.
Sorry to hear you have it - it is horrible!
Love Lee
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Did you wear a support belt for it? xxx
1. A silky type pillow - use this in the car or wherever and it will help movement
2. Silky pyjamas - bedtime used to be absolutely horrendous until i got these. As you know movement is very restricted with SPD and this does help during sleep and to slide out of bed with less pain.
Hope you dont get it too bad honey x
I had a c/section and they had a ladder type thing tied to the end of the bed that I could use to pull myself up and I remember commenting while I was in there that this would have been soooooo helpful during the pregnancy with the extent of the SPD! So, if you can tie a bit of rope or something to the end of the bed and use in a similar way it might be useful for pulling yourself up! If I remember anything else that was helpful I will let you know xxxx