At Shanthi Priya, from your first trimester to pregnancy, delivery to menopause, we help you reduce unnecessary risk and dysfunction.
You will be surprised to know that many of these conditions can be treated by a physiotherapist giving you complete cure. Feel free to discuss your problems with our friendly female physiotherapists specially assigned for women’s problem.
LABOR AND DELIVERY PREPARATION
Birth can be the most memorable day of a woman’s life and we want it be for the happiest of reasons. At Shanthi Priya our physical therapist are committed to helping you achieve a healthy labour process.-During pregnancy, your body undergoes various physiological and musculoskeletal changes. Your ligaments become more pliable, blood volume increases and even your posture changes. This can be associated with pain, gestational diabetes, and other niggling musculoskeletal issues such as back pain, pelvic pain including leaking urine, feeling of pressure or heaviness in vagina.
Just as a sports person trains many months for the event or like a student preparing his exams, pregnancy is the period for you as a mother to prepare the delivery occasion.
We aim to facilitate a more flexible birth canal for the baby to pass through, with minimal resistance to the baby and therefore less soft tissue and joint damage to you.
However, this should be achieved only by a proper and safer prenatal exercise program. This is not the time for experimenting. You need an expert to assist you. At Shanthi Priya, our well trained physiotherapists help look after your body during pregnancy, and to recover after childbirth by prescribing a safe and healthy prenatal program. This includes education and understanding of the body changes during pregnancy, conditioning exercises, strengthening, soft tissue release, breathing techniques, strengthening the perineal muscles to enable to push during labour occasion and appropriate breathing exercises during the whole period of pregnancy.
We also manage to improve the cardiovascular fitness , the psychological well-being, amend the posture, reduce intensity of back pain, and manage gestational diabetes eventually to optimize health across the lifespan of two generations.
AFTER DELIVERY CARE FOR MOTHERS
Bringing new life into this world is a life changing experience. But sometimes it can leave us a little beaten up.But remember you were pregnant and not sick for the 9 months. We work with you before delivery to help you adjust to the extra load you are carrying. And after birth we help you recover from all issues you battled during labour and body changes you have gone through to bring out your loved one. After your childbirth, the responsibility increases. Already shattered body, stretched ligaments, weak perineal muscles, leaking urine, pain around the birth canal, added weight and quiet often the sombre mood does not seem to help you. And now you have, round the clock duty to take care of your beloved child.
Our team at Shanthi Priya completely understand what is going on with you. We will assess you and enlist your problems. Slowly we will encourage you to start a little bit of exercises as soon as possible after delivery. It gives you more information on how to look after yourself and about what things you need to be careful of.
The Physiotherapists in Madurai who is in charge of you will carry the exercises forward with gradual progressions. It will help treat problems that have occurred because of pregnancy and help prevent future physical problems. We will help you look after yourself even while looking after your child. We will target exercises to strengthen your abdominal muscles, pelvic floor muscles, the back, and improve your bowel and bladder functions and give you ergonomic and postural advices which also include corrections for child care and other functional activities.
At Shanthi Priya Physiotherapy clinic in Madurai, you can expect one-on-one care with a female therapist. After all, we all love mothers.