WOMEN’S HEALTH PHYSIOTHERAPY
Less fear. More understanding.
More confidence in your body.
Pregnancy and birth can change how your body feels, moves and responds to exercise.
You might be dealing with leaking, heaviness, pelvic floor symptoms, abdominal separation, weakness, pain or simply uncertainty about what you can and cannot do.
Women’s health physiotherapy can help you understand what is happening, work out what actually matters, and build a practical plan towards the activities you want to keep doing or return to.
Postpartum
Postpartum recovery is not a checklist, and there is no single exercise that everybody needs to begin with.
We start with where your body is now.
That might mean pelvic floor coordination, comfortable movement, rebuilding confidence after birth, managing symptoms or gradually increasing load.
Over time, rehabilitation can progress towards strength, impact, lifting, running, gym training or whatever you want to return to.
The goal is not to “get your body back.”
It is to build the capacity you need for the life you have now.
Abdominal Separation
DRA — diastasis recti abdominis.
Abdominal separation is common in pregnancy and postpartum.
It is not a broken core, and the size of the gap alone does not tell us what your body can or cannot do.
There is no single exercise that “fixes” abdominal separation.
We look at how your abdominal wall manages pressure and load, how you move, what symptoms you have and what you want to get back to.
Then we progressively build strength and capacity for lifting, training, running and everyday life.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy changes the demands placed on your body, but it does not automatically mean you need to stop doing the things you enjoy.
Physiotherapy can help you stay active, manage symptoms, understand your pelvic floor and abdominal wall, and continue building strength throughout pregnancy.
There is no universal list of “safe” and “unsafe” exercises for every pregnant person.
We look at your starting point, symptoms, goals and the demands of the activity, then adjust as your body changes.
Pelvic Floor & Continence
Leaking, urgency, heaviness, prolapse or other pelvic floor symptoms do not automatically mean you need to stop exercising, lifting or doing the things you enjoy.
Symptoms give us useful information.
We assess what is contributing, look at pelvic floor strength, coordination and relaxation where relevant, and consider the demands of the activity you want to do.
Then we build a plan that helps you manage symptoms while progressively increasing your confidence and capacity.
The aim is not to give you a longer list of things to avoid.
It is to help you do more.
Return to Running
Returning to running should not be decided by a calendar date alone.
We look at your symptoms, strength, impact tolerance, pelvic floor function, previous running history and the demands of the running you want to return to.
That might involve strength work, single-leg control, hopping, impact preparation, load management and gradually rebuilding running volume.
The aim is not to prove that your body is “perfect” before you run.
It is to build enough capacity for the demands you are asking of it.
THE EXPERIENCE
Rehab that respects your pace and your life.
Rehab that starts where you are and builds towards where you want to go.
There are no blanket rules and no automatic list of things you are no longer allowed to do.
We start with what matters to you, understand what your symptoms are telling us, and build a plan from there.
That might mean modifying something temporarily, building strength, improving pelvic floor or abdominal wall capacity, increasing impact tolerance or simply giving you better information.
The goal is not to keep you in rehabilitation forever.
It is to help you feel confident doing more of the things you want to do.