Pelvic Rehabilitation: The Manual Therapy and Exercise Guide Across the Lifespan

This book presents paradigms and programs for pelvic health conditions over the lifespan, integrating Medical Therapeutic Yoga and Pilates into rehabilitation prescriptions, sexual medicine, and trauma-sensitive care. It provides evidence-based platforms for healthcare intervention and emphasizes teamwork for client care. It aims to raise global health care education and empowerment regarding pelvic health conditions and conservative care options.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2023
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This comprehensive book offers paradigms and programs for addressing pelvic health conditions across the lifespan, from childhood to senior years. It incorporates medical pearls and captivating storytelling, while introducing innovative concepts and practices. The integration of Medical Therapeutic Yoga and Pilates into rehabilitation prescriptions, sexual medicine, and trauma-sensitive care sets it apart. The contributors, with extensive clinical experience ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics, emphasize manual therapy, exercise, education, and compassionate treatment. Physical therapy, Yoga, and Pilates are skillfully woven together to provide evidence-based platforms for healthcare interventions, addressing pelvic pain, bladder and bowel dysfunction, pelvic organ prolapse, sexual medicine, and trauma-sensitive care. Medical professionals, body workers, fitness trainers, and community educators can gain valuable insights and strategies for effective teamwork in client care. Unfortunately, pelvic health conditions often go unrecognized, neglected by many medical practitioners, and endured in silence, humiliation, and shame by clients. This book aims to promote global health care education and empowerment regarding pelvic health conditions and conservative care options. It embraces an integrative approach, considering the biopsychosocial model and current medical standards in pelvic rehabilitation treatment, as well as health promotion through nutrition and supplements.

Dimension: 246 x 189 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913426095