Safe Return to Exercise

Safe Return to Exercise: Practical Pre and Postnatal Education for Exercise Professionals

WHO IS IT FOR?

For those wanting to specialise in working with mums and create a solid mum-focused fitness business, Safe Return to Exercise is the essential foundation layer.

Live Session

You have ongoing access to an online portal with videos to watch between each session – they are not long but offer further practice opportunities and understanding especially of the hands on and practical elements. 

You can check out the course’s official landing page here for additional information.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Defining Safe Return to Exercise
• Thoughts to promote in new mums – the emotional as well as the physical
• Changing the conversation between mums, fitness, health and medical professionals
• Educating mum
• Body image and mums
• Working within your scope of practice

PREGNANCY

• How a woman’s body changes in pregnancy
• Exercise during pregnancy
• Key points to monitor in pregnancy and post-natally – Triggers, definitions and terms you should know

THE TOP FIVE POSTNATAL CONTRAINDICATIONS PELVIC FLOOR

• Anatomy and function; how pregnancy and a vaginal delivery affects the pelvic floor
• Pelvic floor weakness
• Correct pelvic floor function
• Practical Pelvic Floor – correct and incorrect pelvic floor function and how to gain insight on what
  is happening on the inside from the outside.
• Hands on pelvic floor instruction

ABDOMINAL SEPARATION AND TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINUS

• Anatomy and function; how pregnancy affects the abdominals
• Abdominal separation – What is it, how to check for it, what it means
• Do we need to close the gap – further insight into separation and control
• Activating from the inside out – How to activate Transversus Abdominus & the role of the TA
• Practical hands on and cueing
• Surgery – when is there a need to explore further?

What you will learn (continued)

THE PELVIS

• Pelvic girdle pain
• Pubic Symphosis
• Sciatica
• SIJ pain

WRIST PAIN AND CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
KNEE PAIN

• Key postural exercises your clients need to know
• Practical monitoring, changes and checks for the Top 5 Contraindications before and during exercise
• Learning to ask the right questions
• Learning how your clients needs may change throughout their session and over time
• How to program changes and checks into your sessions plan – being prepared
• Progressions and regressions

Your pre and postnatal medical questionnaire

• Trigger questions and what more do you need to know
• How to interpret and work with their answers

Your first session with your postnatal client
Working with a women’s health physiotherapist

• The value and importance of working with them
• What are you asking them for?
• How to work with and interpret their advice

Other important postnatal things to understand

• Prolapse
• Relaxin
• Avulsion
• Hernia

Learning Materials

Handouts, course manual and/or presentation slides

Awards

You will be awarded a Certificate of Successful Workshop/Course Completion

Dress Code

Fitness attire