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Pregnancy Related Pelvic Pain affects one in two pregnant women. It is something that women’s health physiotherapists commonly see and can help you with.

Men can experience pelvic pain too!

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The postpartum period can come with it’s own specific challenges. Not only has your body grown a baby over nine months. It is now dealing with changing hormone levels, the monumental experience of birth, reduced sleep and trying to feel comfortable in itself again. A women’s health physiotherapist has additional training to specifically understand the hormonal and physical changes which occur over pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

Working our abdominal muscles during pregnancy has been a controversial topic amongst health professionals and exercise specialists. And to be completely honest we don’t have a whole lot of evidence to guide us (this is the case for a lot of issues relating to women’s health but that may be a rant for another day.) Below I explain my clinical thoughts as well as some emerging evidence to help guide us.

Changes in hormone levels can have a direct influence on our pelvic floor. Symptoms of urgency, frequency, needing to wake up more often in the night to empty our bladder as well as increase in UTI’s and painful sex can all be a result of changing hormones. However, that doesn’t mean nothing can be done to help. Discussing your symptom with your GP as well as working alongside a pelvic health physiotherapist can help to alleviate these symptoms.

Seeing a women’s health physiotherapist during pregnancy not only can assist in a smoother pregnancy. We can also teach you ways to help prepare for birth as well as how to take care of yourself in the early postpartum period.