Last night’s ’Embarrassing Bodies’ programme on channel 4 showed a 24 year old girl visiting the clinic for urinary incontinence secondary to a uterine prolapse. She had given birth 13months beforehand. Aside from a very quick mention of pelvic floor exercises, the only option this lady was given was surgery. Now although I appreciate other options were probably given to her ‘behind the scenes’, I feel this could give many women suffering from similar problems the impression that su...

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Have you done your pelvic floor exercises today? For most the answer will be no. Although we all know we should be doing our pelvic floor exercises regularly there still appears to be a lack of information about what exactly the pelvic floor muscles are, how often we should be doing them and how this will benefit us. This enigma surrounding the pelvic floor may prevent us regularly completing these exercises.

 

Why Things Go Wrong

 

As a women’s health physiotherapist, the...

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Last year I was interviewed for 'Ready Steady Mums' regarding certain types of pregnacy and postnatal women's health physiotherapy advice. The full article can be obtained from this link http://readysteadymums.blogspot.com/2011/11/advice-from-womans-health.html In the mean time though, here is an exert from it.

....This most common complaint during pregnancy has various possible causes, many of which can be avoided with simple changes to lifestyle. The hormone relaxin is released during pregn...
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