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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