Fixing You: Back Pain During Pregnancy

Pregnancy changes everything—including your spine. But back pain during or after pregnancy doesn’t have to be part of the experience.

In Fixing You: Back Pain During Pregnancy, orthopedic physical therapist and award-winning author Rick Olderman explains how changes in spinal alignment and pelvic tilt during pregnancy contribute to back pain, pelvic pain, and sciatica—both during and after childbirth. The good news? These problems are predictable, understandable, and correctable.

With over 30 years of clinical experience, Rick shares a practical, gentle approach to:

• Relieve low back pain and SI joint discomfort during pregnancy

• Reduce pelvic pressure and sciatic nerve pain

• Improve posture and alignment to ease pain while standing, sleeping, and walking

• Support your body’s recovery and prevent chronic pain after delivery

Whether you’re in your second trimester or deep into postpartum, this book will help you understand how your body has changed—and guide you step-by-step to feel strong, aligned, and pain-free again.

Includes exclusive access to video demonstrations of every exercise in the book. Just enter the code inside at www.rickolderman.com to follow along and feel results more quickly.

If you’re expecting—or healing—and want a simple, expert-guided solution to pregnancy-related back, hip, or sciatic pain, this book is your roadmap to lasting relief.

Fixing You: Back Pain During Pregnancy represents a new biomechanical approach to fixing back or sciatic pain associated with pregnancy, rather than merely treating symptoms. Rick Olderman is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist, personal trainer, Pilates instructor, author, and speaker who specializes in chronic pain treatment. He teaches you exactly what is causing your pain and the surprisingly simple way to fix it. Fixing pain involves more than just stretching or strengthening muscles; it requires your attention to how you move. Poor movement creates weak or tight muscles which then reinforce poor habits creating a cycle of pain. Rick teaches you which muscles are at the root of your pain as well as how this creates painful movement. He then shows you how to break this cycle. Fixing You: Back Pain During Pregnancy is part of the Fixing You® series addressing chronic or recurring pain in the entire body. Rick simplifies complicated medical problems helping you distill the causes of your pain down to a few simple issues. His explanations remove the mystique of back pain and show you why it is the easiest area of pain for him, and now you, to treat.