A Women’s Health Physiotherapist can work with you during pregnancy and beyond to help manage any pelvic pain you may experience. A condition that is common during pregnancy is pelvic girdle pain which can also be known as symphysis pubis dysfunction. Pelvic girdle pain is a collective term for pain that you may experience in your pelvis and lower back and can radiate into your bottocks, hip, thighs and perineum. Your PEAK Women’s Health Physiotherapist can assess your symptoms, educate you on how best to manage them and provide you with exercises to help strengthen and support yourself throughout your pregnancy.

Urinary incontinence is a condition that affects 1 in 3 women regardless of whether they have or have not been pregnant. Whilst it is common, it is not something that is not accepted to be normal. There are 2 main forms of incontinence, stress urinary incontinence and urge urinary incontinence. Your PEAK Women’s Health Physiotherapist can help you determine what type of incontinence you have, what causes your symptoms and provide you with pelvic floor physiotherapy exercises to work to strengthen and empower you.

The pelvic floor, like any muscle group, can be weak or strong. Imbalances in the pelvic floor muscles can lead to sexual pain and dysfunction, urinary or fecal incontinence and pain in the low back or pelvic region. Your Physiotherapist will work with you to manage your pain and symptoms.

Pelvic floor physiotherapy can help with men who have undergone treatment for prostate cancer and for those who have undergone a Prostatectomy (the removal of a prostate). When a prostate is removed it changes the positioning of the pelvic organs which can affect how well the male pelvic floor can work. Your Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist will assist you in helping to strengthen the surrounding muscles to avoid incontinence.