Caring for your pelvic floor before, during and after pregnancy can prevent bladder and bowel problems from occurring, helping you recover and return to a more active life. If you suffer from chronic or persistent pain you are not alone and it can be treated to help you achieve a more manageable and fulfilling lifestyle.
Physiotherapy core stability classes help to strengthen the mind-body connection and enable you to be more present, leading to meaningful and enriched experiences. Not only do we have advanced training in treating chronic pain, spinal pain, injury, pre and post-natal health, pelvic floor, bladder and bowel problems, but we also enable you to strengthen your mind-body connection through Mindful Core stability and pelvic floor classes.
Physiotherapy core stability classes help to strengthen the mind-body connection and enable you to be more present, leading to meaningful and enriched experiences. Not only do we have advanced training in treating chronic pain, spinal pain, injury, pre and post-natal health, pelvic floor, bladder and bowel problems, but we also enable you to strengthen your mind-body connection through Mindful Core stability and pelvic floor classes.
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The division of our nervous system controlling our involuntary bodily actions is known as the 'parasympathetic nervous system'. As opposed to our 'flight and fight' system, it is associated with a state of safety, peace, calm and happiness. Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Charles Sturt University) and Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor and Continence Physiotherapy (University of Melbourne) and and APA member of Women's, Men's & Pelvic Health.
The physiotherapists at Calm & Connection Physiotherapy Gerringong, Sale & Shellharbour are post-graduate trained and registered with the Australian Health Practitioner's Registration Agency, offering consultations and sessions to treat a range of issues, including injury and pain management, spinal and pelvic pain, sport's injuries and performance management, pre and post-operative rehabilitation, deconditioning, balance programs, and dry needling.
Over our lifetime, our pelvic floor is subjected to many stresses that can contribute to weakness and dysfunction. Lifestyle factors, structural abnormalities, ageing and injury can contribute to bladder and bowel weakness, prolapse or pain. Women's health physiotherapy can help.
One in three women who have had a baby have experienced bladder leakage or weakness, and as many as 50% of women suffer from some level of prolapse, according to the Continence Foundation of Australia.Women's health physiotherapy is an evidence based treatment available to help.
One in three women who have had a baby have experienced bladder leakage or weakness, and as many as 50% of women suffer from some level of prolapse, according to the Continence Foundation of Australia.Women's health physiotherapy is an evidence based treatment available to help.
Bladder leakage and erectile dysfunction are common problems affecting men particularly after having prostate treatment. Over our lifetime, lifestyle factors, structural abnormalities, ageing and injury can contribute to bladder weakness, bowel weakness or pain. One in six men will experienced bladder leakage or weakness and as many as 4.8 million Australian's will be affected across their lifetime.
Lymphoedema is a chronic progressive condition that can have a profound impact on the physical, psychological and psychosocial wellbeing of individuals. Physiotherapy can help. Lymphoedema occurs when there is excessive accumulation of high protein fluid in an area of the body. This causes swelling, tissue inflammation, increased fatty tissue deposits and fibrosis of the affected area.
