What Is Treatment for Women’s Health?
At M Physio, we take a special interest in addressing the common issues women may deal with.
If you are expecting to have children your women’s health physiotherapist can assist you with pregnancy related conditions and can help with pre-natal and post-natal advice and treatment such as related back pain, swelling of your body causing carpal tunnel syndrome, and to prepare your body for pregnancy to ensure a smooth recovery. You may also suffer from Urge or Stress Incontinence. This is also an area our physiotherapists can assist, deal and manage for you.
Will I Benefit From Treatment For Women’s Health?
Pregnancy
Experiencing the joy of giving birth is a miraculous event. It can however physically damage and injure your body if you do not prepare your body through this life changing event. Back pain, sciatica, neck pain, headaches, tingling in the hands, faecal or urinary incontinence, and pelvic pain are all common conditions that you should not have to endure. Our physiotherapists will provide solutions and management programs to protect you body from potential permanent injuries
Incontinence Issues
Our physiotherapists have the skills and knowledge to combat your incontinence issues. With over 30% of females suffering from a weak bladder or bowel, our goal is to markedly reduce this problem you face. Wouldn’t it feel fantastic to gain control of your pelvic floor so that you don’t have to worry about accidents with your bladder or bowel? So many females after completing their Optimal Health4Life pathway plan have successfully gained control over their incontinence issues, and gained their lifestyles back!
What Is Included In Women’s Health Treatments?
Strategies and implementations for Pregnancy and Incontinence issues are as follow:
- Tailored treatment plan through our Optimal Health4Life plan
- Pre-natal and Post-natal management programs
- Pelvic floor exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor and abdominal muscles to help incontinence and sexual discomfort
- Diastasis recti (abdominal separation) rehabilitation
- Bladder and bowel incontinence, including stress incontinence and urgency incontinence
- Pelvic floor rehabilitation, following childbirth or pelvic organ prolapse
- Addressing overactive bladder symptoms
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Pelvic health is one of the most common issues that women’s health physiotherapists work to address. In fact, around 80% of women will experience pelvic girdle pain at some point in their lives.
While a lot of the work that pelvic floor physiotherapists take part in surrounds pre and postnatal care, there are a number of reasons why you may be experiencing pelvic floor dysfunction. These can include:
- Chronic constipation
- Hormonal Changes (such as menopause)
- Pelvic surgery
- Genetic predispositions
- High-impact activities
The pelvic floor muscles support organs in the pelvic region, including the bladder, uterus, and rectum, and play a crucial role in controlling bladder and bowel function, sexual function, and stability of the pelvis and spine.
As such, pelvic floor therapy helps to develop strong pelvic floor muscles that can be very important for women in order to support the pelvic organs, maintain urinary and bowel continence, and provide stability to the pelvis and spine, and ultimately improve your overall pelvic health and quality of life.
Things I Need To Know About Treatment For Women’s Health
Why does incontinence occur?
Faecal or urinary incontinence can occur due to weakness of the sphincter muscles responsible for closing the urethra. When this muscle is underactive and weak, pressure from laughing, coughing, exercising or sneezing can result in leakage of urine. In addition the bladder muscle can suddenly tighten, this can cause urge incontinence with an urge to urinate that you may not be able to control.
What does Pre and Post Natal mean?
Prenatal is the medical term given to describe the pregnancy time of ‘previous to birth’ or ‘before giving birth’. Postnatal or postpartum is the term given for the time which begins immediately after childbirth.
What complications are there during and after pregnancy?
Common complications include bladder and bowel dysfunction or incontinence, bladder or bowel prolapses, weakened pelvic floor muscle, back pain, sciatica pain, headaches, carpal tunnel syndrome, diastasis recti (abdominal separation), pelvic pain and even sexual discomfort just to name a few. These can all be treated and managed by our physiotherapists.
What can I expect during my consultation?
You can expect a thorough investigation on the issues and goals you want rectified. Pregnancy related conditions can be a complex issue that only an experienced physiotherapist can help, manage and treat. Hence you can expect a high quality of service with experienced and knowledgeable physios to help pregnancy related conditions and incontinence issues.