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Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year : A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Bornby Elizabeth Noble
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Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year : A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Bornby Elizabeth Noble
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A virtual "bible" for pregnant and postpartum women and their health care providers, this book provides well-illustrated explanations of the key muscles involved in each phase of the childbearing year. Sound and safe advice is given on back pain, foot pain, incontinence, high-risk pregnancies and recovery from Cesarean birth.
"Essential Exercises undoubtedly presents the role of the physical therapy during pregnancy and postpartum in the most complete fashion." -Raul Artal, M.D., Anthor, ACOG Guidelines for Exercise During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period, Pregnancy and Exercise, and Exercise in Pregnancy
"Elizabeth Noble stands out dramatically as one of the few women who have significantly improved the health of childbearing women during the past two decades." - Doris Haire, President, American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health
"Elizabeth Noble is a writer and teacher extraordinaire." - Jane Fraham, P.T., President, Section on Women's Health, American Physical Therapy Association
Elizabeth Noble is the mother of two children and a graduate in physical therapy, philosophy and anthropology from Australia. She moved to the United States in 1973 and founded the Women's Health Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. The author of eight books including Having Twins, Childbirth with Insight and The Joy of the Being a Boy, she has trained over 2000 instructors in prenatal and postpartum exercise.
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