Women's Health
Women’s Health physiotherapy relates to treatment specific to conditions affecting women. This includes conditions only affecting women, for example pregnancy, or specific to female anatomy.
Women’s Health conditions we treat include:
- Incontinence
- Urinary & Faecal
- Stress
- Urge
- Mixed
- Bed wetting
- Dyspareunia
- Nocturia
- Chronic Constipation & defaecation dynamics
- Mastitis, blocked milk ducts
- Pregnancy related pelvic pain (sacroiliac and pubic symphysis)
- Pregnancy related back pain
- Gestational carpal tunnel syndrome
- Post surgical scarring and pain
- Post natal pelvic pain, coccyx pain
- Post natal back pain
- Post natal diastasis recti/abdominal muscle separation
- Post natal thoracic and neck pain
- Post natal wrist and thumb pain
- Post natal core strengthening programs
- Pre-gynaecological surgery education and strengthening programs
- Post operative gynaecological rehabilitation
Pilates Classes
- Pre natal
- Post natal (mother and baby together)
- General
Other Pre and Post Natal Services Offered
- Education for use of TENS for labour, including hire of TENS units
- Post Natal Musculoskeletal check
- Performed any time after obstetrician’s 6 week check up
- Includes pelvic floor, abdominal, gluteal muscle check and education regarding breast feeding postures & baby handling ergonomics
- Baby Massage classes
- For the baby
- Torticollis treatment programs
- Plagiocephaly (mis-shapen head) management
- Postural talipes exercise and education programs