Exercises in pregnancy help maintain overall fitness, reduce back pain, and improve sleep. Regular physical activity can also ease labor and promote a quicker postpartum recovery.
When you’re struggling to keep a meal down during the first trimester of pregnancy, dealing with a changing body in the second, or huffing and puffing just to make it to the bathroom as you near your due date, hitting the gym might be the last thing on your mind. But a growing body of research suggests that exercise has big benefits when you’re pregnant.
Health care providers generally recommend that doing what exercise you can while pregnant is a great way to have a healthier and more comfortable pregnancy.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology recommends 30 minutes or more of moderate Exercises in Pregnancy on most if not all days of the week, unless you have a medical or pregnancy complication.
BENEFITS OF EXERCISES IN PREGNANCY:
- Maintain Cardiovascular fitness
- Improves Posture
- Decreases physical problems or minor complaints of pregnancy e.g. Low back pain
- Strengthens specific muscles in preparation for pregnancy and labour
- Maintains muscle length & flexibility
- Assists in maintenance of healthy weight range
- Increase body awareness and control
- Improves co-ordination, balance & rhythm
- Prevention & treatment of problems associated with gestational diabetes, hypertension & preeclampsia.
- Improves physical well-being & therefore decrease fatigue
- Improve breath awareness & control
- Improve circulation
- Reinforce principles of relaxation
- Reduce stress & anxiety
- Increase endurance & stamina
- Provides social interaction
- Assist postnatal recovery
Physiotherapy promotes good health and sense of well being during pregnancy and also encourage preventive medicine.As a team of physiotherapists our aim is to give women the opportunity to discuss their fears and expectations in a relaxed and sympathetic manner and to acquire positive and accurate information about pregnancy and labour.
We offer instructions in skills to conserve energy, raise pain tolerance levels and maintain control during labour. Doctors at Cura Health Care Services ensures that we will rehabilitate women during the puerperium to full physical activity and mental well-being.
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