By having extensive experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, pain management and women’s health physiotherapy – I am able to look at an individual holistically. This is certainly an advantage when treating pelvic pain, pregnancy related pelvic girdle pain and in identifying biomechanical issues that may be affecting the recruitment of the pelvic floor muscles.

Having personally experienced pregnancy and a complicated birth, I fully understand the effects that pregnancy, labour and surgery can have on women physically, mentally and emotionally. I feel this allows me a deeper level of empathy and an understanding of what you may be experiencing. It has certainly altered my practice in a positive way.

It upsets me when I hear about women ‘putting up’ with continence issues. This is partly because incontinence pad adverts on television give the impression that bladder incontinence is normal. They suggest that part of being a woman, having children and getting older is leaking urine – having ‘Oops moments’!