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Bladder and Bowel Issues. Prolapse. Pain.
Bladder
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
Masters Continence and Women’s Health
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.
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. Rachel achieved her Masters in 2012, and is now titled by The Australian Physiotherapy Association as a Continence and Women’s Health Physiotherapist. This title means that Rachel is a general physiotherapist with additional qualifications and experience in treating the pelvic floor.
- Registered with AHPRA
- Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association
- Member of the Continence Foundation of Australia
- Member of the Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
Sponsorship
In 2017-18 Rachel will donate monies for ten Ethiopian women to receive long term physiotherapy.
Vulvodynia can be provoked by touch, or constant. It is linked with pelvic floor muscle hypertonicity or tightness. There are ways of treating it and treating the tight muscles. The first step though, is knowing that you can get help. #pelvicpain #youarenotalone #commonnotnormal
Does your vulva hurt? You could have vulvodynia
theconversation.com
If you've ever experienced pain in your vulva, you're not alone. Around 16% of women will have vulvar pain that lasts for longer than three months. They are likely suffering from vulvodynia.
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