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Bladder and Bowel Issues. Prolapse. Pain.
Bowel
Bladder
- Leakage-during life or during sport
- Urgency-rushing to the toilet
- Urge urinary incontinence-leaking on the way to the toilet
- Stress urinary incontinence-leaking urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or lift things
- Nocturia-getting up to urinate more than once a night
- Frequency-going many times a day
- Difficulty emptying your bladder
- Over active bladder
Bowel
Bowel
- Bowel urgency-having to rush to the toilet or being afraid you won’t make it
- Incontinence-leaking from your bowel-small or large amounts
- Chronic constipation
- Difficulty emptying your bowel
- Irritable bowel
- Bloating / gas and abdominal discomfort
- Difficulty controlling wind
- Frequency-going many times a day
Pain
Pain
- Sexual Pain-pain with sex, vaginismus, vulvodynia, clitoral pain, sexual difficulty after cancer and pudendal neuralgia
- Endometriosis pain
- Pelvic organ prolapse-heaviness or dragging pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis
- Coccyx or tailbone pain-coccydynia
Pelvic Girdle Pain-sacroiliac joint (SIJ) and Symphysis Pubic Dysfunction (SPD) - Bladder or bowel-pain with holding on, emptying or gassy pain / bloating
- General pelvic pain, but you are not sure why
About Rachel Andrew
Masters Continence and Women’s Health
Professional Certificate Conservative Management of Prolapse
BSc. Physiotherapy
APA Continence and Women’s Health Physiotherapist
Rachel is passionate about women accessing pelvic floor physiotherapy. She wants women to take control, seek help and be able to talk about intimate symptoms in a safe space. She now works exclusively in Women’s Health.
Rachel's Title
Rachel has been awarded a Title by her Professional Association. "APA Titled Physiotherapists are highly qualified..with expert knowledge and skills in their area of practice....The APA Title serves as a professional mark of distinction." Australian Physiotherapy Association.
More... Working as a physiotherapist since 2003, Rachel worked mainly in neurological rehabilitation and women’s health. This has taken her across Australia, as well as living and working in Tasmania for over 10 years. People living with neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s Disease, MS and stroke, often experience bladder and bowel issues. This overlap of symptoms inspired Rachel to do further study around continence and women’s health.
- Registered with AHPRA
- Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association
- Member of the Continence Foundation of Australia
- Member of the Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
- Member of the International Pelvic Pain Society
Sponsorship
In 2018-19 Rachel will donate money for two Ethiopian Women to have Fistula operations.
In 2017-18 Rachel donated money for ten Ethiopian women to receive long term physiotherapy.
The Glenorchy Health Centre is running a free six-week, practical program for people with ongoing pain from 15th October on Monday mornings 10.30 - 1.00.Are you living with chronic pain or care for someone who does? Want to learn more tools and techniques to manage your health and overcome pain?
The Glenorchy Health Centre is running a free six-week, practical program for people with ongoing pain from 15th October on Monday mornings 10.30 - 1.00.
It covers content developed by Stanford University Patient Education Research Centre, which has been found to improve functioning, reduce pain, improve mental health and enhance life satisfaction.
To register call Raquel on 6166 1404.
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