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Studies of all designs (except case studies) of any publication date or language were included if they contained information on the population (women and people in the first year postpartum), intervention (subjective or objective measures of frequency, intensity, duration, volume or type of exercise, alone (\u2018exercise-only\u2019) or in combination with other interventions (eg, electrotherapy, infrared irradiation, ultrasound; \u2018exercise+cointervention\u2019)), comparator (no exercise or different exercise measures) and outcome (symptom severity of LBP\/PGP\/LBPP, related disability, bodily pain and kinesiophobia).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>37 studies (N=3769 participants) from 15 countries were included. Moderate certainty evidence showed that exercise-only interventions, including various strengthening exercises targeting the trunk muscles, were associated with a greater reduction in LBPP symptom severity (4 randomised controlled trials (RCTs), n=210; mean difference \u22122.21 points (on a 0\u201310 Visual Analogue Scale) 95%\u2009CI \u22123.33 to \u22121.08) and related disability (6 RCTs, n=296; standardised mean difference \u22121.17, 95%\u2009CI \u22121.92 to \u22120.43; large effect size) as compared with no exercise. Similar results were found for bodily pain (2 RCTs, n=318). 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