Physical activity program for the treatment of circulatory and metabolic disorders in women after childbirth

Abstract

Pregnancy is characterized by several adaptive modifications in the female organism, both structural and functional. If bad eating habits and accumulated sedentary lifestyle, conditioned by genetic factors, converge in this process, women are vulnerable to suffer certain alterations or persistent diseases after childbirth (obesity, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension), and this event is an initial point of progressive decline in their health. Due to these aspects and to the scarce offer from the methodological point of view that propitiate their treatment from the field of Physical Culture, the need arises to elaborate a tool for the early attention of this group. It consists of a program of physical activities based on health education and therapeutic physical activity that allows improving their quality of life in general. Theoretical and empirical methods were used for this article, which allowed to achieve the proposed objective. The proposal is structured from the interpretative paradigm, according to these assumptions, its methodological elements allow a multidisciplinary approach. To evaluate the feasibility of the program, the criteria of specialists, experts and users were taken into account through the triangulation method, with which positive evaluations were obtained to justify its application.