[The effect of graded physical loading on the adaptive-compensatory potentials in a high-risk group of pregnant women]. / Vliianie dozirovannykh fizicheskikh nagruzok na adaptatsionno-kompensatornye vozmozhnosti beremennykh zhenshchin gruppy povyshennogo riska.

The study was conducted of combined application of conventional regimens of therapeutic exercises and adjusted bicycle ergometry loads (60-75% of the oxygen utilization maximum) in high-risk pregnant women suffering from chronic respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. It was found that adaptation of the women was improved as well as maternal and fetal complications prevented due to neuroendocrine regulation recovery and larger reserve of cardiorespiratory system.

[Graded physical loads as a method of preventing and treating maternal and fetal hypoxia in pregnant women with cardiovascular pathology]. / Dozirovannye fizicheskie nagruzki kak metod profilaktiki i lecheniia gipoksii materi i ploda u beremennykh s serdechno-sosudistoi patologiei.

Graded muscular exercise is thought an efficient enough method of managing maternal and fetal hypoxia in pregnant women with cardiovascular disorders. Individually adjusted physical training allowed a 26% increase in resting values of maternal blood partial oxygen pressure and a 26% decrease in the number of infants born in severe asphyxia.