Pregnancy massage

Obviously, everybody love massage and pregnant women even more! But how? As an expecting woman, between your job, organizing everything for the baby, taking care of your older kids, it is a challenge to find time to take of yourself! However, in various cultures, massage is an important part of

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women's health pelvis: pelvic floor muscles
Pre and post natal
Elodie

How to restore Pelvis Balance?

First let’s speak about taking time to take care of yourself. You may feel guilty to not spend every minute you can with your baby, but remember to have a happy baby, you need to be happy with your body and yourself… By taking this time, you’ll be able to

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Cube pessary
Women's health
Elodie

Pessary Cube

Pessary Cube Do you have urinary issue while performing an effort like running? Or do you have prolapse limiting your possibility to do sport? Yet you would like to keep active? Are you pregnant and start to feel heaviness in the lower part of your belly? Or you just want

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Women's health physio: urgency treatment
Non classé EN
Elodie

How to manage urgency?

Last week, we saw how to build a Urination Calendar and how to interpret it. So you should have changed your bad habits regarding how and what you are drinking. Now let’s see how to have good habits in terms of how many you go to the loo by learning

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Micturition-calendar
Women's health
Elodie

Micturition Time Chart (Urination Calendar)

  Micturition Time Chart (Urination Calendar)     In our Videos, we speak about Micturition Calendar. Let’s explain what it is exactly! You (or your partner!!) thing you spending way too much time going to the loo. Or in a more objective view, you either: Need to go more than

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anal incontinence
Midwife
Elodie

4 exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor

 Start these exercises by gently working on your abdomen and breathing:  #1 Fast contractions, Lying on your back (to take weight off the muscles) Keep your spine neutral (neither arched or flattened) Keep your shoulders relaxed Start by establishing low slow breathing While breathing out, squeeze your pelvic floor: 10*

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Women's health
Elodie

What is biofeedback in pelvic floor rehabilitation ?

Biofeedback in perineal rehabilitation   French moms (or the one who did their pelvic floor rehabilitation in france) will tell you part of the treatment was about to play a video game by contracting their pelvic floor muscles! They are speaking about BiofeedBack.   Before to speak about this pelvic

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Woman's health & obstetric: Prolapse: Causes & Physio Treatments in London
Women's health
Elodie

Prolapse

Prolapse One woman out of 3 over 50 years old has a prolapse, often minor and symptomless. However, prolapses worsen and become symptomatic, especially pass 60 years old. Women describe a vaginal ball, a sensation of something going down or/and of heaviness. Before to explain what a prolapse is, it

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continence problems control
Women's health
Elodie

Constipation: What is it and what to do?

Constipation Constipation is a very common issue for women of all age. However, most of women are not aware they are and probably not suspect the risks associate to constipation. Risks of constipation are not just being blotted or suffering from abdominal pain. It also leads to hemorrhoids, rectocele and

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Post partum treatment mum with babie
Pre and post natal
Elodie

Your sex life after a baby

Your sex life after a baby Physiological changing, Psychological symptoms When to start ? Which kind of issues you can have ? 9 months of pregnancy, giving birth, a lot of baby cries, short nights, baby sleeping in the room… A lot of things limiting sex life. First, let’s see

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Baby blog bronchiolitis chest physiotherapy treatment
Sports physiotherapy
Virgil Bru

Bronchiolitis & Chest Physiotherapy

Bronchiolitis and Chest Physiotherapy What cause Bronchiolitis? Its main cause is the RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). 90% of the babies under 2 years old are colonized by this virus and 40% of them develop the disease, which make this affection the most common one at this age. However, bronchiolitis can

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What to expect for your delivery ?

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

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Obstetrci physio urgency and incontinence
Women's health
Elodie

What type of incontinence do you have?

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

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Flat tummy after delivery exercises
Pre and post natal
Elodie

How to get a flat tummy after delivery?

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

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pregnancy body change and hormonal modification
Pre and post natal
Elodie

3 Tips to prepare your pelvic floor for a good delivery

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

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