Childbirth is arguably the most traumatic event the human body can undergo, and new imaging techniques show that up to 15 percent of women sustain pelvic injuries that don't heal.
Researchers from the University of Michigan reasoned that using MRI to diagnose childbirth injuries--a technique usually reserved for sports medicine--makes sense because childbirth is as traumatic as many endurance sports.
"If an athlete sustained a similar injury in the field, she'd be in an MRI machine in an instant," said Janis Miller, associate professor at the U-M School of Nursing. "We have this thing where we tell women, 'Well, you're six weeks postpartum and now we don't need to see you--you'll be fine.
