Clinical Services

Bespoke care throughout a woman's life including but not limited to:

• Pelvic Floor Health

• Bladder issues: rushing to use the toilet, inability to control the bladder, pain or discomfort when urinating

• Bowel issues: difficulty controlling stool and/or wind, constipation, difficulty knowing when you need to go, anal pain

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse

• Preparing for pregnancy

• Pregnancy

• Postnatal

• Menopause

• Bone Health & Osteoporosis

• Pelvic Pain

• Sexual dysfunction

• Pelvic surgery: prepare for upcoming surgery and then work on rehabilitation to get back to what you want to do

• Pelvic Floor Health

• Bladder issues: rushing to use the toilet, inability to control the bladder, pain or discomfort when urinating

• Bowel issues: difficulty controlling stool and/or wind, constipation, difficulty knowing when you need to go

• Prostate cancer: care throughout your cancer journey

• Anorectal Pain

• Persistent/ Chronic Pelvic Pain

Care tailored to your unique needs. This can include, but is not limited to:

• Gender confirmation surgery: preparation and rehabilitation from top or bottom surgery

• Pelvic pain

• Pain with intimacy

• Pregnancy & post natal care for trans parents

This unique time in your life needs special care:

• Prepare for pregnancy

• Personalised childbirth preparation classes for you and your support person

• Exercise:

  • Customised pelvic floor muscle training

  • Pregnancy safe exercise

  • Return to exercise & sport post baby

  • DRAM/Ab separation & weakness rehab

• Pain:

  • Pelvic girdle pain

  • Neck, back & rib pain

  • Wrist & hand pain

• Pelvic Health:

  • Bladder issues

  • Bowel issues

  • Prolapse

• Post natal care:

  • Recovery after birth & rehab

  • C-section recovery & scar management

  • Perineal & episiotomy scar management

  • Navigating return to sex after giving birth

Bladder issues can affect anyone at any stage of their life. It can include:

• Incontinence/ Leaking urine:

  • Do you leak when you cough, sneeze or exercise?

  • Do you leak on your way to the toilet?

  • Not realise that you have leaked?

• Urgency, frequency & overactive bladder:

  • Struggling to make it to the bathroom?

  • Do you get an overwhelming urge to urinate?

  • Do you need to urinate too often?

  • Do you get odd triggers to urinate like drinking too much caffeine or alcohol, coming home from somewhere or leaving home, listening to running water?

• Voiding issues:

  • Pain or discomfort when urinating

  • Dribbling after you have finished urinating

  • Straining or struggling to empty your bladder

Bowel issues can affect anyone, common issues include:

• Constipation: Straining to empty your stool or not going for days at a time

• Not feeling the urge to empty your bowel

• Urgency: Rushing to empty your bowels

• Faecal incontinence: passing stool when you do not mean to or faecal soiling

• Flatal/ Wind Incontinence: Accidentally passing wind

Pelvic pain describes a wide variety of conditions that can affect one or more of the areas listed below:

• Lower abdomen

• Perineum

• Vulva & vagina

• Anal region/bottom

• Tail bone/ Coccyx

• Bladder

There are many conditions that can cause this including:

• Vulvodynia

• Vaginismus

• Painful periods

• Painful ovulation

• Endometriosis

• Adenomyosis

• PCOS & PCOD

• Pain inserting a tampon

• Painful sex & dyspareunia

• Coccydynia

• Anal pain: including levator ani syndrome & proctalgia fugax

• Painful bladder syndrome & interstitial cystitis

Pelvic organ prolapse refers to a sensation of heaviness, dragging or a bulge at the vagina. This sensation may be caused by a weakening of some structures in your pelvis causing one or more of the organs (bladder, vagina & bowel) in your pelvis to drop.

The Children’s Continence Clinic

Children can experience bladder and bowel problems that can often be quite stressful for the family. These issues include:

• Constipation

• Soiling accidents

• Bed-wetting

• Daytime wetting

• Dysfunctional bladder and or bowel emptying

• Retention and chronic holding on

• Pelvic pain

High Performance at The Pelvic Health Co.

Sports and physical activity place unique load on the pelvic floor region. Your rehabilitation needs to be tailored to the unique needs of your training and sport.

• Back pain

• Neck pain

• Headaches

• Jaw pain & TMJ issues

• Shoulder pain

• Elbow, wrist and hand pain

• Hip pain

• Knee pain

• Ankle & foot pain

Join a calming, guided exercise class designed to help you let go of excessive pelvic floor muscle action and reconnect with your body.

Grounded in yoga principles and led by a Specialist Women’s, Men’s & Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, this class offers a safe and supportive way to:

• Learn to relax muscles in your pelvic region

• Improve breath awareness

• Calm the nervous system

• Restore confidence in your movement