Empowering Women through Women’s Health Physiotherapy

Our women’s health service aims to help provide information, education and practical tools including rehabilitation to empower women to be able to perform the activities they love. The service helps women with concerns related to bladder and bowel symptoms, prolapse, peri and post-menopause, post-surgical, and all thing’s related to pregnancy (Pre and Post Natal).

 

Our women's health service can help you return to exercise during your postnatal journey.  It can be a very confusing time to know what you can do to help your healing journey, including understanding the timeframe to return to exercise, and knowing what type of exercise to return to. Each woman will have a completely different postnatal experience dependant on factors such as their pre-pregnancy activity levels, their pregnancy, birth, postnatal healing, and also their goals.

A women's health postpartum appointment will entail a detailed history of your pelvic and health-related concerns, your pregnancy and birth experience, followed by an individualized assessment designed to help you towards your goals and what is important to you.

The assessment will look into:

-       Pelvic floor muscular strength, endurance, and coordination

-       C section site and function (if appropriate)

-       Abdominal muscle separation

-       Breathing patterns

-       Lifting and functional movements

The treatment may involve:

-       Detailed education and advice with pelvic floor exercises

-       Scar site management and optimisation (C section and perineal)

-       Abdominal separation advice, education and management strategies

-       Bladder and bowel management

-       Return to exercise advice and planning

-       Return to running exercise and programming

Our aim is to help you understand and appreciate the journey your body has been through and to help guide you through your “fourth trimester” and beyond so that you feel confident and empowered within your body.

If you have any questions as to whether a women’s health appointment would be beneficial to you then reach out to our Allstars.