Postpartum training course (university degree + 8 ECTS credits)

The practice of physical exercise during pregnancy and post delivery has a series of recently demonstrated advantages. In this sense, the physical activity of recovery at this stage of life helps to recover both the physical and the mental form to restore the new vital rhythm, as well as to stabilize the weight, correct the posture, reduce the discomfort and favor digestion and sleep, among others. Also, postparto and sport constitute a good team for both physical and psychological recovery of women after giving birth. It is also important to mention and include in this course the benefits provided by the practice of physical-sports activity, as well as a good practice in the post delivery.

- Know methods to stabilize vital parameters in the postpartum (posture, weight, food, sleep ...) - Promote user autonomy and reduce harmful factors for physical and body strength. - Deepen the variety and classification of training and its appropriate typology for this sector. - Know factors related to sport in this period and its consequences (injuries, techniques, recommendations ...) - Expand areas of knowledge about other possible sports practices and dysfunctions.

The postpartum training course will allow you to exercise functions as a personal and group coach of this type of population, sports therapist or specialist functional training, monitor work in Pilates and pelvic floor, as well as reinforce as a specialist of obstetrics medicine, as well as nurses or specialists of this sector.

This course will prepare whoever performs it to encompass and understand that the exercise for pregnant women is part of special populations, since it is necessary to make adaptations and security considerations when prescribing exercise and its realization. You can face various problems and that can arise and include both the physical and the psychological axis to understand the new techniques to update your knowledge.

The course is directed mainly to: graduates/graduates and students in physical activity and sports activity sciences, sports technicians, coaches and physical trainers, graduates/graduates and physiotherapy students, graduates/graduates and nursing students, graduates/graduates and medical students.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.