How Pregnancy & Postpartum Change Your Running Gait: What the Research Shows — with DR. JENNIFER BAGWELL

Send us Fan MailToday, I speak with Jennifer J. Bagwell, PT, PhD, DPT, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at California State University Long Beach. Her overall research objective is to enhance quality of life through the reduction of joint pathology and the promotion of health and exercise. She seeks to understand the relationship between movement, anatomy, and function with respect to perinatal joint loading and pain and to optimize injury prevention and treatment strategies for this population. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Women’s and Pelvic Health Physical Therapy and as the Secretary of the Academy of Physical Therapy Research and of the Biomechanics Special Interest Group.We talk about:-changing biomechanics with pregnancy & postpartum-research during pregnancy-differences in each trimester-myths surrounding pregnancy activity-research in postpartum-the danger of overcorrecting-furthering the research-being an associate editorTime Stamps1:00 Introduction3:30 beginning to study pregnancy running mechanics7:34 complications of doing research on pregnant women10:01 research findings17:08 being active during pregnancy19:20 why we see what we see25:10 the danger of overcorrecting28:50 feedback on the paper34:00 from clinic to research37:45 the Journal of Women’s and Pelvic Health Physical Therapy44:50 rapid fire questionsCONNECT WITH CARRIEIG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/IG: https://www.instagram.com/native_women_running/Website: https://carriepagliano.comCONNECT WITH JENNIFERX- @JennyBagwellPTInstagram- jennybagwellptWebsite: https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-health-human-services/physical-therapy/the-clinical-movement-performance-laboratoryThe Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there.Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now).Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it.Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌