Womens Health physiotherapy is a specialist service, inline with Mummy MOT principles, which focuses on the female body and aims to assist during the ante and post natal phases, as well as in later years.
This service is perfect for the assessment and treatment of pelvic pain and back pain, helping you to return to your sports and fitness after pregnancy, or guidance on pelvic floor weakness and prolapse.
Womens Health physiotherapy is available at our Bristol clinic, and is suitable for:
- Pregnant and New Mums
- Postnatal mums – of any duration
- Issues with continence or leaking
Our Womens Health service can help you regain control
Our specialist ante natal and post natal service is for women following both vaginal and Caesarean section deliveries, and includes an assessment of how your posture, pelvic floor and stomach muscles are recovering after childbirth.
Whether you are struggling with abdominal separation, incontinence or are just looking for advice for activities such as lifting your baby safely or returning to exercise, our specialist will create a bespoke rehabilitation program with your personal goals and lifestyle factors in mind.
Getting to know your pelvic floor can be life changing!
The pelvic floor muscles are essential however they can be put under additional pressure with any increase in ‘intra-abdominal pressure` e.g. when we laugh, run, jump or sneeze and it stops us from any leakage or dribble (wind or water).
Bladder incontinence or leakage IS a common problem with a THIRD of women aged between 35-55 years old suffering and often women suffer in silence and never seek help!
If these muscles aren’t working properly, it may show as:
- Increased frequency of going to the toilet (bladder or bowel)
- Uncontrolled flatulence
- Not getting to the toilet on time (bladder or bowel)
- Not fully emptying when going to the toilet (bladder or bowel)
- Lower back pain
- Painful sex
- Heaviness or bulge down into the vagina
TV and magazine adverts raise awareness of the problem, but encourage people to use pads to mask the problem instead of tackling the cause. Aftercare following Hysterectomy surgery is often neglected or incomplete.
Of course, if these pelvic floor muscles are weak, overstretched, slow to work, too tight, even torn from childbirth or after abdominal surgery (men too) these muscles need some extra attention to be re-activated.
The good news is we can easily do something about this instead of suffering daily!
With Physiotherapy and some gentle exercises this unnecessary leakage can be STOPPED.
If you would like further information or a personalised treatment plan to help this problem, please call Kate Moore at The Physio Clinic Bristol.
Call 01454 540066 for a confidential chat.
