Pelvic health (pain, pelvic floor conditions etc.)

Pelvic health and pelvic floor conditions and concerns look different for everyone! Pelvic health care is available for all those through menstruation to motherhood to menopause; our everchanging hormones and bodies often entail change to our pelvic health. Conditions I treat range from back, abdominal, pelvis, hip, sacrum, or tailbone pain to preparing for labour and birth, vulva related pain conditions, prolapse or conditions like bladder leakage and chronic constipation. Pelvic health is not always about pain, but sometimes about discomfort, inability to do certain activities or wanting to improve pelvic function. Pelvic health can also be proactive to help support conception, prepare for labour and birth, pre-operative care or for conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis and PCOS.

As an osteopath my approach to pelvic health extend beyond the pelvis, looking at the whole body and person to understand your condition and give you individualised care to improve. Common pelvic health conditions I treat include chronic pelvic pain, urinary incontinence, chronic constipation, painful intercourse, vulva pain conditions, pelvic floor dysfunction, prolapse; endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS and Crohns pain management, and preparing the pelvic floor for birth. Internal pelvic health assessment and treatment is available.

Internal pelvic health is never a necessity as so much can be addressed externally. Pregnancy internal pelvic health is available after your 20-week scan to help prepare pelvic floor for birth by addressing restriction and tension, ensuring correct pelvic floor function, and teaching you and your partner techniques like perineal massage.