Women's Health Physio

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Prenatal Care Physiotherapy
Pregnancy is an exciting time in your life. Our
Physiotherapists have extensive experience in
helping you stay fit, healthy and comfortable
throughout your pregnancy. We offer individual
exercise programs
Common problems include

• Pelvic Girdle Pain (Pelvic Instability)
• Back pain
• Rib pain,

• continence issues,
• Swelling and tingling fingers to name a few.

Solutions are provided with

• Individual consultations- Prenatal consult are
  run by our female Physiotherapist. It cover
  pelvic floor exercises , abdominal exercises
  along with general exercises safe during
  pregnancy.

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Post Natal Physiotherapy
While you are caring for your newborn, your body
is trying to recover from the changes that
occurred during pregnancy and birth.The weeks and
months following the birth of your babycan be a
busy and exhausting time. Because of this, you
may experience

• Weakness in your tummy and pelvic floor muscles
• Neck, back or pelvic pain
• Breast engorgement and/or mastitis
• Trouble returning to exercise, particularly high
  impact exercise

Wyndham Physio offers individual physiotherapy
consultations to help achieve your goals and
leave you feeling fit, healthy and ready to meet
the demands of a growing baby.
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Continence And Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Incontinence affects more than 4.8 million
Australians and can be embarrassing, distressing
and socially isolating. Continence and Pelvic
Floor Physiotherapy involves the assessment and
treatment of bladder, bowel and pelvic floor
dysfunction in women and men. Anyone
experiencing the involuntary loss of urine or
faeces, urinary or bowel urgency, chronic
constipation, trouble holding flatus, getting up
at night more than twice, pelvic dragging or
pelvic pain can benefit from Continence and
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy. Treatment involves
pelvic floor strengthening, bladder retraining,
defaecation and voiding retraining, prolapse
management, diet, fluid and lifestyle
modification.
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Some facts regarding Continence and Pelvic Floor
Physiotherapy

• 84 of women attending a Continence
  Physiotherapist to improve pelvic floor muscle
  strengthening will see improvements
• Up to 34 of men who have prostate surgery report
  having incontinence 1 year later
• Pelvic Floor Muscle re-education training hastens
  return to continence after radical prostatectomy
• About 80 of those impacted by urinary
  incontinence can be cured or improved

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Common Conditions Treated

• Stress incontinence
• Frequency and Urgency
• Faecal Incontinence
• Constipation

• Prolapse
• Pelvic Pain
• Post-prostatectomy incontinence
• Sexual pain

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Menopause
Menopause is also known as the change of life,
as it marks the end of monthly menstruation. This
change leads to decrease in female hormones that
may lead to a higher risk of osteoporosis, weak
pelvic floor causing incontinence and heart
diseases.
Our Physiotherapists help with exercises that
will help manage weight, and increase your bone
density and muscle strength to reduce
osteoporosis.
Our female Physiotherapists specialize in
treating a broad range of musculoskeletal issues
associated with the different life stages like
pregnancy, birth and post-partum, lactation and
menopause. They also specialize in pelvic floor
muscle function and dysfunction.
Consultation at Wyndham Specialist Care Centre
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