Pubic Symphysis tears during childbirth are especially traumatic events because during one of the most special times in a woman's life, she experiences a traumatic injury, often needlessly. One of a woman's most joyous moments quickly turns into one of her most painful and confusing when she hears a popping sound and feels a sudden, intense pain in her pubic bone followed by swelling.
Pubic symphysis and sacroiliac (SI) joint tears and ruptures that occur during childbirth are often caused by a doctor's or midwife's negligence. If your pubic symphysis or SI joint tore or ruptured during childbirth, you may have been the victim of medical negligence.
The most common situation in which medical negligence causes such injuries is a birth involving shoulder dystocia. To safely deliver the baby, doctors and midwives place the mother's body and legs in different positions to free the baby. However, the wrong pressure applied in the wrong positions can cause pubic symphysis and sacroiliac (SI) joint tears.
The pubic symphisis is a specific part of what most people know as the pubic bone. The pubic bone is actually the merging of two bones connected by the pubic symphysis, which is made of cartilage. The SI joints (we have two) connect your hip bones to your tailbone.
Women have slightly expandable pubic symphyses to ease childbirth by allowing more space for the baby to pass. Normally, the pubic symphysis is 4-5 milimeters (mm). However, during childbirth, the gap between the two pubic bones can widen up to 9mm. Anything more than 9 mm is considered abnormal. The pubic symphysis gap closes to normal within days of childbirth while the surrounding ligaments take 3-5 months to completely recover fully.
If you experience a complete separate caused by a traumatic tear during childbirth, the joint will be completely unstable. You will experience much difficulty moving your back, torso, hips or legs because of the pain associated with those movements and the instability of the hip joints. A complete pubic symphysis rupture will often cause your legs to fall apart if you are lying on your back and you will not be able to close them. You need medical attention because you have suffered a type of broken pelvis.
Source by Art Zimmet
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