Importance of pre & Postnatal physiotherapy | CESARIAN SECTION
There are lots Pre & Postnatal Physiotherapy techniques that women can practice. Physiotherapy also helps in dealing with common back pain during and after pregnancy.
After normal delivery, we must be allowing the pelvic floor muscles a chance to rest and recover well. We use the RICE principle to make sure that the muscles are healing well. RICE stands for Rest, Icing, Compression, & exercise.
Cesarian Section
In CESARIAN SECTION delivery, in the early days mothers are going to spend a lot of time feeding the baby, and very often they will be in a sitting position. This can put extra pressure on the muscle of the stitches down below. So whenever the baby is not feeding or they get a chance to rest, in the early days it’s important to lie down as much as you can, this can help the swelling settle.
Icing can be helpful to allow the swelling or the pain to settle down.
Compression bandages or compression garments will provide sufficient support to the muscles.
Physiotherapy in pre & post-natal care is important as it can prevent/treat musculoskeletal problems, promote a healthy lifestyle, posture & ergonomic correction, and optimal physical fitness.
Benefits of Pre & Postnatal Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy rehab/Treatment in pre and post-natal in both normal and CESARIAN SECTION’s have the following benefits. such as reducing fatigue, reducing varicosities, and swelling of extremities, reducing insomnia, managing stress, anxiety, and depression, improving core stability and pelvic floor muscle strength, etc.
It is important to start doing pelvic floor exercises from the very beginning. Once the baby is 24 hours old. And once that’s been removed, you can start doing your pelvic floor exercises.
Physiotherapy rehab in pre and postnatal includes Gentle massage, Hot packs, and TENS for relieving pain.
Other therapeutic modalities can be used such as Ultrasound, laser therapy, and infrared, etc.
Kegel’s exercise.
Pelvic floor exercises, which include gentle pelvic floor squeeze & release, Squeeze around the back passage as if you are trying to stop yourself from breaking wind and let go. You can also perform this exercise while pregnant. Ideally, you should do 3 sets of 10 repetitions with a 1-second hold. which extended to a 10-second hold on progression.
Exercises for your core stability after delivery such as isometric abdominal exercises, and head lifts with pelvic tilt. Leg sliding with pelvic tilt, pelvic tilt in a quadruped position, etc.
Exercises to relieve back pain such as mobilization of the Sacroiliac joint, postural correction, superman exercises, bridging, etc.
To reduce edema do vigorous ankle-toe movement, resting with the leg elevated, and pressure stocking.
Pilates.
Breathing exercises will improve circulation.
Ergonomic corrections such as In Postnatal bladder and bowel movements should be accurate to support the pelvic floor muscles. When emptying the bowl it’s important to sit correctly on the toilet and lean forward so your arms are resting on your knees. You can use a step or stool underneath your feet to elevate your knee off the ground
