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Is Painful Sex Interfering with Your Relationship and Intimacy with Your Partner?
Sex should be pleasurable—not painful. Yet for many people, pain during or after sex is something they silently endure for months or even years. Some assume it's "normal," others feel embarrassed to talk about it, and many don't realise that help is available. The...
“When I Need to Go… I Need to GO!” Understanding Urge Urinary Incontinence
Have you ever suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to go to the toilet, only to leak before you made it there? Maybe you've found yourself rushing to the bathroom, crossing your legs, or planning every outing around where the nearest toilet is. If this sounds familiar,...
Therapeutic Ultrasound in Women’s Health Physiotherapy
Therapeutic ultrasound can be a useful adjunct to hands-on physiotherapy in selected postnatal presentations – including painful, restricted caesarean scars and with some lactation-related breast symptoms. What is therapeutic ultrasound? The ultrasound head or...
Bowel Motion Difficulty & Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
Are you straining to open your bowels and thinking this is normal? Opening your bowels should not feel like a full body workout, where you are holding your breath, straining, pushing so hard or rocking back and forth. You may even be spending what seems like forever...
Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain and Back Pain
Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain and Back Pain What does pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy mean? Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) in pregnancy can arise from the three main joints of the pelvis and the muscles, ligaments and nerves associated with these joints. There are...
Pregnancy and Postnatal Physiotherapy
Reasons for aches and pains in the Childbearing Year In the child bearing year many musculoskeletal changes occur within the women’s body. It is important to respect these changes during pregnancy, post-delivery and into the postnatal period. The pregnancy softening...
Healthy Breathing and Physiotherapy
Healthy Breathing and Physiotherapy Breathing is our life force, but how often do we spend any time thinking about this vital process. Do we know how poor breathing can create pain that may eventually require physiotherapy? A good breathing pattern uses the diaphragm,...
Tennis Elbow
What does Tennis Elbow mean? Tennis elbow is a painful condition affecting the outside part of the elbow. This area is called the lateral epicondyle and so the medical term is lateral epicondylitis. Tennis elbow is usually caused by overuse of the forearm. The outer...
When do I use Heat and when do I use Cold
This is a question frequently asked by our clients in both consultations and exercise classes at Physiotherapy for Women. Hot and cold therapies have been used for centuries as healing modalities to promote health and well-being. Our physiotherapists will help you in...
Our greatest asset – movement!
Movement is key to everything we do, and as humans we need to move often in order to stay healthy. Moving often is very important, but we must also move WELL in order to get the most out of our bodies and be truly healthy.
Taping for treatment
Tape. It’s one of the various tools in our arsenal that we sometimes call upon to help a person in their recovery from injury.
Women living with diabetes
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic condition that affects the body’s ability to breakdown (or metabolise) the food we eat into energy, for use by the trillions of cells that make up the human form. Diabetes is a global problem, and while it affects both men and women, there is one type that affects women only – gestational diabetes.
How important are you to yourself?
Now that the fun and frolics are over for another year, it’s back to the routine of everyday life and everyday stress… But where do YOU fit in to all of this? We always ask the question ‘How important are you to yourself?’. Let’s discuss why this is important and what you can do to ensure you make 2020 more about you.
3 Common Walking Myths Busted!
Walking as an exercise needs to be understood and respected. It is time to dismiss the commonly held idea around walking not being a worthwhile workout. Here we present the truth about three walking for exercise myths. Myth #1: 10,000 Steps is the Holy Grail “Wow,...