What to expect for your delivery? A lot of my patients ask me “what is my due date?” In France and in England we don’t have the same due date. Important information you can keep in mind: your baby will be considered as premature before 37 weeks and overdue after
Both pregnancy and labour traumatised the pelvi-perineo-urinary system. Multiple injuries and dysfunctions can occur. They are named vesical instability: 13 to 26% of women suffer from urinary problem after giving birth. Urinary Incontinence It can manifest as: Urgency micturition is a sudden irrepressible urge to urinate Urinary incontinence by urgency is an involuntary urine
How to get a flat tummy after delivery? Abdominal Rehabilitation Throughout the pregnancy, your belly and abdominal muscles are weaker and stretched to create space for your baby. When these abdominal muscles are too strong before the pregnancy or the belly developed too quickly, the linea alba between rectus abdominis (6
Advices and exercises When I listen to my pregnant patients, I hear “I did my kegel exercises, I’m ready to give birth’ Hmmmm well…. Yes and no… It is very good to learn how to squeeze your pelvic floor before to give birth BUT if you think about what will
Your all life, your pelvic floor, which is a hammock composed of muscles holding your visceral organs, had to go through a great deal (pregnancy, delivery, sport, menopause, cancer treatment). You may have perceived this sensation of heaviness standing. Hormonal changes occurring during pregnancy and menopause but also due to
Pelvis pain rehabilitation All along pregnancy and following delivery, you could experience different kind of pain. Depending on the type, our physiotherapist will adapt her techniques. Ano-rectal pain is caused by difficulty to eliminate stools: Our physiotherapist will use : behaviour therapy manual sphincter relaxation techniques or using manometry probe, breathing exercises, abdominal
Scoliosis is a permanent deviation of the vertebral spine caused by a vertebral rotation. It mainly appears in the childhood or teenage but in some case even during the adulthood. This pathology can be triggered by another disease. However, in most case the exact cause is unknown. The scoliotic deviation
TMJ (temporomandibular joint) dysfunction often presents as a jaw pain, with a click, a difficulty to open the mouth or even a locking. It can also impact other area and create: teeth pain, head ach or neck pain. The main causes of TMJ dysfunction are : Grinding your teeths sometimes
Most of our patients present to us because they are in pain. The difficulty is: pain is neither a diagnostic nor their actual problem. It is a symptom or says otherwise a consequence of the true problem. In fact, pain is the alarm of your body to warn you there
As with any type of pain, the difficulty is to understand what cause the pain. As the location of your pain is not always an indicator of the location of your problem, it is common to examine back and pelvis pain in pregnancy with a similar approach. Pregnancy is associated
What product do we use to wash babies nose? We use isotonic saline solution (similar concentration to physiological liquid) either in spray (sterimar) or physiological serum. It is non-irritant for the sensible tissues of the nose and it is easy to control the volume used. Also prefer a product with
In the case of cerebral palsy and psycho-motor delay, the child will have difficulty to learn, to organise his/her posture to initiate movement and to adapt movement amplitude and intensity. It explains their difficulty to hold their head and trunk and movement which are too slow/fast, stiff or brutal. Our
Varieties of techniques involving direct pressure on muscle, tendon, fascia and connective tissue. For an optimal use it requires excellent anatomy knowledge (do know on which tissue to work) and fine touch to determine the state of the tissue how to adapt the technique. These techniques are extremely useful for:
Manual therapy is a physical treatment, including: Soft tissue and Massage technique Visceral manipulation Articulation Technique Myofascial Technique Trigger point We offer home visit because we think it is more convenient for mummies and allow you to rest at the end of the session. But we also consult in our practice located in
Chest physiotherapy intends to clear the bronchial mucus secretion that your baby is unable to evacuate (very common in case of bronchiolitis, cold, flu, asthma, pneumonia, Chest infection…). At the start of each session, the Baby’s physiotherapist auscultates the chest of your baby. It helps to identify and localize different elements:
Clubfoot is a congenital pathology. It appears before birth without hereditary causes and no found causes . The foot of the new born is deformed, it is turned inward (varus) with an extension of the ankle ( equine ) . This is a condition that must be managed quickly by