Arabic: Evidence-Based Antenatal Exercise Prescription: Clinical Approaches for Physiotherapists

Antenatal Exercise Prescription | Women’s Health Physiotherapy CPD StudyMEDIC

This advanced women’s health physiotherapy CPD course by StudyMEDIC is designed for physiotherapists aiming to deliver safe, skilled, and evidence-based antenatal care. Exercise during pregnancy plays a vital role in maintaining musculoskeletal health, cardiovascular fitness, and psychological wellbeing. However, effective antenatal exercise prescription requires a thorough understanding of gestational adaptations, safety considerations, and clinical contraindications.Pregnancy introduces significant biomechanical, hormonal, and postural changes, requiring physiotherapists to adapt assessment and intervention strategies across trimesters. This course equips clinicians with the clinical reasoning skills needed to assess pregnancy-related changes, screen for risk, and prescribe individualised, trimester-appropriate exercise programmes.Grounded in current research, the course highlights how structured antenatal exercise can reduce low back pain, pelvic girdle pain, excessive weight gain, gestational diabetes risk, and anxiety, while emphasising safe modification, intensity monitoring, and patient-centred communication.

CPD Information

• CPD Credit Hours: 1.5 hours

Who Should Enroll

• This course is ideal for:
• Licensed Physiotherapists
• Women’s Health / Female Health Physiotherapists
• Clinicians involved in antenatal musculoskeletal care and pregnancy risk screening

Resources Included

• Downloadable course material
• CPD Certificate
• 30 days access to learning resources

Course Presenter

Gehan Baalawi, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, Dip. Health & Social Care
Gehan Baalawi is a conscientious, evidence-driven physiotherapist with training from the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, and SGS College, UK. Her academic work includes research on deep slow breathing and pain modulation, reflecting her interest in non-invasive, patient-centred interventions.
She is committed to translating research into practical, clinically relevant education and has additional training in mental health care, leadership, wellbeing, and self-care. Gehan is registered with the HCPC and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), UK.