RESEARCH AT TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY

FACULTY PROFILE SYSTEM

Name: Anita Kyle, RNC, MS, CNS
Title: Associate Clinical Professor
Department: College of Nursing
Email address: akyle@mail.twu.edu
Description of research activities:   (1) Pregnancy outcomes—type of obstetrical delivery of primagravidas who participate in a structured exercise program. (2) Historical perspective of and therapeutic effects of infant massage on premature and term infants as well as on young children. Professor Kyle is a clinical nurse specialist in maternal-child nursing and a certified pregnancy fitness instructor. She teaches a structured exercise program that follows the ACOG guidelines for pregnancy exercise.
Keywords: Pregnancy fitness, structured exercise program, primagravidas, infant massage, child massage, therapeutic touch, effleurage, imprinting, conditioned response, stress and relaxation
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