Service
Women's health physiotherapy in Goulburn.
Pelvic, pregnancy, and gynae physio from an AHPRA-registered physio with extra qualifications in women's health. Assessment and treatment for bladder leakage, prolapse, pelvic pain, and recovery during and after pregnancy.
Why women's health physio
What women's health physio actually does.
Women's health physio is physiotherapy with extra training for the pelvic floor, abdominal wall, and how the body loads through pregnancy, birth, surgery, and the rest of life. AHPRA-registered, consent-led, and the same physio across every appointment.
What we treat
What we see in clinic.
- Bladder leakage and urgencystress, urge, and mixed
- Bowel issuesconstipation, urgency, leakage
- Pelvic painendometriosis, vaginismus, vulvodynia, painful sex
- Back, pelvic, and rib pain during pregnancypostural changes, ligament loading, rib flare
- Recovery after birthabdominal separation, perineal and caesarean recovery
- Pelvic organ prolapseassessment and conservative management
- Rehab before and after gynae surgeryhysterectomy, prolapse repair, sling procedures
- Mastitis and breastfeeding-related achesblocked ducts, feeding-related shoulder and neck pain
- Returning to running and impact exercise after birthpelvic-floor readiness, staged return
- Pelvic and continence changes around menopausebladder urgency, dryness, pelvic-floor weakness
How it works
How your appointment runs.
Your first appointment is in a private treatment room. The same physio sees you across every appointment — continuity matters in this kind of care. The session is unhurried on purpose, starts with a proper history, and walks you through the assessment options before any examination is offered.
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First appointment
Detailed history and a walk-through of the assessment options before any examination is offered.
Treatment
Consent-led work, with the same physio across every appointment.
Funded under
Schemes that cover women's health physio.
Common questions
Questions we get asked a lot.
What does an assessment for bladder leakage involve?
A continence history with a bladder diary review, a check for what's contributing, and an examination of pelvic-floor strength, endurance, coordination, and the muscles around it. Where it's useful and with informed consent, internal vaginal palpation gives the most direct read. Treatment is supervised pelvic-floor muscle training — the main thing — alongside bladder retraining and any habit changes the case needs.
I'm twelve weeks postpartum and want to run again. What does that look like?
A postnatal check of pelvic-floor strength and coordination, abdominal wall, scar tissue, lower-back and pelvis load tolerance, and lower-limb strength. Returning to running follows the Goom, Donnelly and Brockwell guidelines — staged impact through walking, intervals, and graded running once you hit the strength and continence benchmarks. The timeline is built from the assessment, not the calendar.
How is pelvic pain — endometriosis, vulvodynia, or ongoing pelvic pain — treated?
Pelvic-pain rehab works on the muscle, soft-tissue, and movement-control side of the pain. Treatment combines calming down a tight pelvic floor where it's overactive, breathing and lower-back-and-pelvis control, hands-on work where useful, gradual movement exposure, and education about how pain works. We coordinate with your GP, gynaecologist, and where relevant psychology and dietetics for endometriosis symptoms.
How does physio help with pelvic organ prolapse?
Supervised pelvic-floor muscle training is the conservative cornerstone and the standard recommendation before any surgical referral. The assessment includes grading the prolapse using the international scoring system, testing pelvic-floor function, and looking at the load and lifestyle factors that flare it up. Pessary fitting is coordinated with your GP or gynaecologist where appropriate.
Do I have to have an internal examination?
No. Internal vaginal or rectal examination is only offered where it adds useful clinical information that external assessment can't give. It only happens with informed written consent and you can decline at any point before, during, or after. External and self-assessment approaches are clinically valid for most cases.
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