Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of low back pain of pregnant women on daily living by determining the actual conditions of low back pain through conducting a questionnaire. The research was conducted on 769 pregnant women who went to maternity clinics and departments of obstetrics and gynecology of general hospitals and sports facilities in Ibaraki prefecture using an original question sheet. The results showed the 56.7% of pregnant women experienced low back pain in pregnancy. The degree of pain on a visual analog scale (VAS) was "light", but the group with low back pain had been feeling difficulties doing back burden activities in daily living from the first stage of pregnancy. From this result, low back pain was self-consciously moderate, but affected activities of daily living badly from the beginning of pregnancy, so precautions are needed from the first stage of pregnancy.
