Labor pain is one of the most painful events with
severity ranging from women to women with 30% of
them experiencing severe low back pain during labor.1
There is anatomical support for assumption that low
back pain in labor is referred pain from the uterine
cervix and corpus supplied by afferent neurons ending
in dorsal horns of spinal segments T10-L1
. Based on
gate-control theory2
various techniques entailing
anesthesia or stimulation of lumbosacral areas have
been attempted in order to inhibit pain transmission
to dorsal horn with varying results.
Although there are various methods for reducing labor
pain, options are limited due to lack of monitoring
facilities and human resource constraints especially
in developing countries with resource poor set-up.