Women's Health Physiotherapy relates to the management and treatment of conditions specifically affecting women through their life stages – from early adulthood, through the child bearing years, post menopause and into older age.
Did you know?
1 in 3 women who’ve had a baby wet themselves
1 in 5 suffer from poor bladder or bowel control
1 in 2 experience prolapse
1 in 5 experience pelvic or sexual pain
1 in 3 women who’ve had a baby wet themselves
1 in 5 suffer from poor bladder or bowel control
1 in 2 experience prolapse
1 in 5 experience pelvic or sexual pain
Conditions our Women’s Health Physiotherapists treat include;
- Frequent urination
- Urinary incontinence
- Pregnancy related pelvic and back pain
- Mastitis
- Prolapse often described as a “heaviness” or “dragging” sensation
- Leaking from the bladder or bowel
- Dyspareunia (vaginismus)
- Abdominal separation following pregnancy
- Pelvic floor and abdominal rehabilitation
- Preparing the pelvic floor for birth
- Neck and shoulder pain - often due to carrying a new baby and sustained positioning during breast feeding
- Return to exercise assessment following child birth