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PSTR 401 : OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Credits: 
2

To enable the student acquire the knowledge and skill in providing safe and effective physiotherapy care to clients throughout pregnancy, labour and puerperium. It will deal with

  •  Review of pelvic floor anatomy.
  •  Physiology of Pregnancy
  •  Prenatal exercises.
  •  Utero-vaginal prolapse and vesico-vaginal fistula.
  •  Physiotherapy management of Utero-vaginal prolapse and vesico-vaginal fistula.
  •  Physiology and conduct of normal labour.
  •  Management of complications resulting from prolonged or obstructed labour using physiotherapy techniques.
  •  Common Gynaecological conditions and amenable to physiotherapy.
  •  Physiotherapeutic management of gynaecological conditions.