Do you work with pregnant clients? This course will enable you to enhance your pregnant clients' training experience by assisting them with labour and birth preparation tools, as part of their fitness programme. This introductory course will also provide you with the tools to be able to assist pregnant clients in planning for their postnatal recovery.
Suggested Pre-requisite:
- CIMSPA: L3 Personal Trainer
Course outcomes
- Have strategies for preparing clients for labour and birth in the fitness setting.
- Know how to use tools to prepare your clients for labour during aerobic training.
- Understand the basic concepts of the three stages of labour.
- Know strength training strategies that can be used in the third trimester to prepare for labour.
- Understand different ways to teach your clients to use stretches to enhance their preparation for labour and birth positions.
- Understand ways to prepare the pelvic floor for birth and postnatal recovery.
- Know how to use training intensity changes for labour training.
- Know about modifying resistance exercises to protect the pelvic floor during pregnancy.
- Know how to teach clients relaxation and breathing awareness strategies to use in labour.
- Understand how you can teach your clients to apply relaxation principles learned during pregnancy to use in the postnatal period to assist the adjustment from pregnancy to motherhood.
- Know how to prepare and equip your clients for postnatal recovery.
- Understand available client instruction and information resources for fitness professionals.
- Understand some of the postnatal issues that clients may experience that require referral for postnatal physiotherapy or medical follow-up.
- Understand when to refer a client to a pelvic health physiotherapist, medical practitioner or musculoskeletalphysiotherapist for conditions requiring attention that are outside the scope of a registered fitness professional.
Author Bio
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Dianne Edmonds
Dianne Edmonds is an Australian physiotherapist with over 30 years of experience with pregnancy, postnatal and pelvic floor education, treatment and fitness programs. She contributed to the development of the AusActive Pregnancy and Postnatal Exercise Guidelines as a member of the expert reference group. Dianne was the lead physiotherapist and project officer for the Pelvic Floor First project campaign, run by the Continence Foundation of Australia and is a Pelvic Floor First Ambassador. Dianne is the Director and founder of The Pregnancy Centre, and hosts The Running to the Core Podcast, which explores areas affecting women’s return to fitness and running postnatally. She currently works in an Obstetric GP practice in Mandurah, Western Australia.
