Monthly Archives: January 2015
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29 Jan
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 pilatesWhat 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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22 Jan
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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12 Jan
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.