Active Mama – a new pelvic belt in combination with TENS for pregnant women with pelvic pain

Active Mama – a new pelvic belt for pregnant women with pelvic pain, in an active pain relief concept. Some 20% of all pregnant women around the world suffer from SPD or pelvic pain. Just in Sweden, over 19,000 women are affected annually. For these women it often means incapacity to work, sick leave and consequently deterioration in quality of life. The goal is to make the belt, to be able to develop and expound the content in an app and combine with a TENS. With the combination of physiotherapy and industrial design a new pelvic belt is created for this vulnerable patient group while at the same time conventional patterns are broken from passivity and sick leave to activity and improved quality of life.