Pregnancy and postpartum care
What happens to the body during pregnancy? Why do some women experience pelvic girdle pain, low back pain and urinary incontinence during pregnancy? What can women do to prevent it?
What happens to the body during pregnancy? Why do some women experience pelvic girdle pain, low back pain and urinary incontinence during pregnancy? What can women do to prevent it?
In this article, I will explain what urinary incontinence is, what the main causes are and who is more at risk of developing it. I will also help to identify early signs of pelvic floor muscle weakness and talk about possible treatments.
Image source: Tightly Wound an animated film about Vaginismus by Shelby Hadden & Sebastian Bisbal Key points Vaginismus is a condition characterised by the involuntary tightening of the pelvic floor muscles, the muscles around the opening of the vagina. Women struggling with vaginismus find any sexual activity that involves vaginal penetration painful…
Grace came to see me because she had been struggling with low back pain for a while, which had been recently aggravated and was preventing her from doing yoga.