Monthly Archives: January 2015

  1. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LORI FORNER

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LORI FORNER

    What is your current position/s?

    Private practice ,small business owner/physiotherapist working mainly with women’s pelvic health.
    Physiotherapist working at a private practice obstetric centre once/week, also teaching prenatal pilates

    What led you into women's health physio?

    Teaching pregnancy and post-natal pilates years ago highlighted the lack of evidence and information regarding women’s health issues.

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  2. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio ALYSSA TAIT

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio ALYSSA TAIT

    A FEW MOMENTS WITH Alyssa Tait

    What is your current position?

    Physiotherapist and Owner of Equilibria Physiotherapy & Nutrition

    What led you into women's health physio?

    An obsession with my bladder as a child. A desire to help women who are dealing with the most awkward, icky, embarrassing problems. A desire to be the clinician that I would have wanted to see.

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  3. Feel the Need, the Need for Speed?

    I feel the need the need for speed

    Do you feel the need, the need for speed when getting to the toilet to pee?

    An urgent need to get to the loo is a common thing and often mistakenly called a "weak bladder" and excuses are made  'I have been like this since I was a child'  or 'it is only since I had the kids'

    There is no such thing as a weak bladder. There are weak pelvic floor muscles, there is stretched fascial tissue, there is a low compliant bladder (the muscular wall of the bladder is stiff and won't stretch well - like blowing up a balloon for the first time), there is an overactive detrusor ( bladder wall muscle which contracts when it shouldn't)  but you don't have a weak bladder - it is the support and control mechanisms that are not working properly.

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