Acupressure and Acupuncture During Birth: An Integrative Guide for Acupuncturists and Birth Professionals

ISBN-13: 9781848193581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str.

Claudia Citkovitz

Opis

For acupuncturists and birth professionals, this engaging book explains how yin/yang and other principles of Chinese medicine can improve birth experiences and outcomes. It includes information on what happens before, during and after birth from both a biomedical and Chinese medical perspective, and a toolkit of treatment strategies for birth work.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. A brief overview of Chinese medicine for women's health. 3. What happens before, during and after birth: an integrative perspective. 4. Yin birth, Yang birth: understanding dysfunctional labor from a Chinese medical perspective. 5. A toolkit of strategies for intervening. 6. Additional considerations and approaches for commonly occurring labour dysfunction and complications (with Sarah Budd). 7. Advice on pulling the 'toolkit' together into a cohesive practice strategy, with case examples. 8. Advice on how the fetal heart rate/contraction monitor can be diagnostically interpreted as the 'pulse' of the labor (and also basics on its use for safety). 9. Postpartum and post C-section care. 10. Glossaries of unfamiliar Chinese and Western terms.