Physiotherapist

Key Responsibilities

• Impart knowledge and take part in providing education in preparation for childbirth and parenthood.
• Assess and treat any skeletal and muscular ailment or discomfort faced during pregnancy.
• Provide post natal exercise and give specialized treatment if necessary.
• Impart knowledge of effective relaxation, breathing awareness and positioning and other information that could help a woman in labour.
• Provide specialized physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring and management.
• Provide prenatal and postnatal physiotherapy services
• Carry out in patient rounds
• Observe and provide support to patients while making them walk inside the room.
• Teach posture’s, body mechanics and impart knowledge about the care and precautions to be taken post-delivery.
• Carry out OPD consultations as per the appointments made.
• Visit the LDR and teach Lamaze for women who are in the 1st and 2nd stage of labour.
• Addresses women’s issues related to childbirth, antenatal and postpartum disorders including lymphedema, osteoporosis, pelvic pain, labour pain etc.
• Maintaining records and documentation as per NABH