Women’s Health Physiotherapy Rehabilitation

Women’s Health Physiotherapy is the therapeutic treatment of all disorders affecting the pelvis and pelvic floor. Physiotherapy can alleviate many symptoms like incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain or constipation.

Women’s health symptoms:

  • Abdominal muscle weakness
  • Bladder / Bowel dysfunction
  • Constipation
  • Pelvic girdle injury / pain
  • Back ache / stiffness
  • Postural changes

Causes of Women’s health:

  • Bowel Dysfunction
  • Constipation
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Pelvic Floor Weakness
  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse
  • Urinary Stress Incontinence

Physiotherapy for Women’s health:

  • Pelvic floor re-training and exercises
  • Relaxation and breathing techniques
  •  Manual therapy techniques to relax the pelvic floor muscles
  • Pelvic floor muscle strengthening
  • Advice on toileting and positional modifications
  •  Pilates based pelvic stability exercises to strengthen the abdominal muscles
  •  Provision of pelvic floor educators/muscle stimulators to improve your activation and power of your pelvic floor contraction
  •  Assessment and treatment of any low back/pelvic pain issues which can lead to weakness of the pelvic floor muscles