Physiotherapy Care for Women’s Health R Baranitharan, V Mahalakshmi, V Kokila
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1PHYSIOTHERAPY CARE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH
2PHYSIOTHERAPY CARE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH
R Baranitharan MPT Vice Principal PSG College of Physiotherapy Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India V Mahalakshmi MPT Associate Professor PSG College of Physiotherapy Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India V Kokila MPT Associate Professor PSG College of Physiotherapy Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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4Foreword
We live in a century with awesome scientific advances. But the health care of women is still far from satisfactory. This well structured and informative book will be of great value to all pracitioners involved in the care of women from childhood through pregnancy to menopause and beyond. This book focuses on many problems seen in obstetric and gynecological practice and has a comprehensive list of exercises with detailed and clear illustrations. The importance of physiotherapy for the final outcome for the patient cannot be overemphasized. A classical example is the role of antenatal exercises during pregnancy and labor.
I feel privileged and very happy to welcome this book which will be very useful to all its readers.
Dr Seetha Panicker md, dgo, dnb
Professor and HOD of OG
PSG Hospitals
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
5Preface
Physiotherapy had been considered important in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the past three decades. Initially, it was concentrated on perinatal and postnatal stages. There are many other problems faced by the women community in all age groups. We have attempted to bring the major problems affecting women's health from menarche to menopause and their physiotherapy treatment under one roof.
We have emphasized that not only exercises play a major role, but exercises along with various physical therapy modalities can also help in overcoming women's problems. We have highlighted both the obstetric and gynecological problems and have given a special emphasis on the athletic women. We could also provide a few questionnaires which could be useful for the readers.
We would like to thank all those who gave their valuable time in helping us and that adding to our effort have paved way for the success of publishing a lecture notes considering various problems of women under the title “Physiotherapy Care for Women's Health”.
Our sincere thanks to PSG Management for their encouragement and Mr Jayanandhan, Senior Author Coordinator and all other staff of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, for their support in our success in publishing this book.
R Baranitharan
V Mahalakshmi
V Kokila
6Acknowledgments
We would like to kindly acknowledge and thank Prof Rudolf H Moos, Dr Xavier Badia, Dr Brooks-Gunn, Dr Donald L Patrick, Diane Kaschak Newman, Janice Delaney and Mary Jane Lupton for gracefully accepting to use their tools and stands as the highlights of our book.
Our gratitude and respectful thanks to Dr Seetha Panicker, Professor & HOD of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prof Dr TV Chitra and Prof Dr Reena Abraham, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for their endless support.