What happen to your body during and post pregnancy?
Change to muscles, ligaments and joints during and after pregnancy affect the whole body. Pregnancy and childbirth can damage the pelvic floor muscles and connective tissue, causing all kinds of inconvenient and uncomfortable symptoms for women after they give birth. Physiotherapists help women manage these changes, providing expert care and advice during pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.
Do I have pelvic floor problems?
- Do you experience incontinence when you exercise, play sport, laugh, cough, sneeze, lift, or get out of a chair or bed?
- Do you need to go to the toilet very frequently?
- Do you have trouble getting to the toilet in time?
- Do you find it hard to empty your bladder or bowel?
- Do you have a sensation of heaviness, bulging
or discomfort in the pelvic area?
- Do you have difficulty controlling wind?
- Do you lose control of your bowel?
- Do you have pain in the pelvic area?
- Do you have painful sex?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you do have a pelvic floor problem.
At Capital Physiotherapy, our therapist understand how having pelvic floor issue can affect your ability to achieve a full active lifestyle. Visit our practice in South Yarra and our therapist can have a full body assessment done to determine your pelvic floor requirements, and a management plan will be provided to achieve your goals efficiently.
What other postnatal conditions do our physiotherapist treat?
Abdominal Diastasis (seperation of abdomianl muscles post pregnancy)
- Neck pain and Stiffness (constant carrying of your new baby)
- Headache
- Back Pain and Stiffness including disc injuries,pinched nerves, scaitica
- Wrist pain includes Carpal Tunnel, De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
- Mastitis
- Incontinence
- Tummy Muscles and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
- Return to Running/ Sport Individual Tailored Program
- Pelvic Girdle Pain
- Indivudual Tailored Clinical Pilate Program
If you would like to discuss about your discomfort during or post pregnancy and how to get better, please contact our friendly physio team at Capital Physiotherapy on 0401 865 333. Alternatively, click the button below to book online.