Why the study?
It is important to understand how therapeutic aquatic physical activity during pregnancy helps prevent and treat common prepartum and postpartum pathologies, influences fetal development, and aids childbirth adaptation.
Does therapeutic physical activity in the aquatic environment improve maternal and fetal health in pregnant women?
Systematic Review
Does therapeutic physical activity in the aquatic environment improve maternal and fetal health in pregnant women?
Aquatic therapeutic exercise during pregnancy is safe and provides physiological benefits for both mother and child while helping to prevent and treat peripartum pathologies.
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Andreu et al. (2020) conducted a systematic review in Pregnancy. Therapeutic physical exercise in the aquatic environment vs. Standard care or land-based exercise was evaluated on Maternal-fetal physiological and anthropometric effects, type of birth, and evolutionary development of the baby.
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