6 ways to care for your pelvic floor muscles and spine when you are pregnant. From your experiences at your Fix Program classes, I hope you all have a new awareness of your pelvic floors, pelvis and spine. But with your changing body shapes and levels of that $1 rising as the weeks of pregnancy tick...
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What are 'urgency triggers'? It is well known that the terms women's health and pelvic floor go hand in hand together. A huge emphasis is place on this group of muscles in reducing the symptoms of incontinence among both women and men with either large improvements or complete cessation of symptoms....
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Heba explores The Franklin Method In the Fix classes we often include imagery in our exercises to help us achieve better posture. When I say 'imagine the string at the top of your head pulling you up, lengthening you through your spine', you automatically feel yourself growing taller. When I call on...
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Pain: It's the Brain's Thing Last issue of Fixnews, we started to talk about pain with reference to shark bites and war injuries. This was illustrating the point that pain does not always match the extent of body damage or injury. And that at the end of the day, the body's damage at the tissues is o...
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**Pebbles in the Pond – Imagery for Pelvic Floor Strengthening** The pelvic floor hammock at the base of your pelvis can be divided into deep and superficial layers. There are many muscles making up this hammock and we know that stretching of the muscle tissues in pregnancy and tearing or episiotomi...
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Did you know that up to 10% of pregnant women in Australia suffer from depression in pregnancy? I read this article late last year from the BBC and felt just awful. It explored the incidences of depression in both pregnant women and post-natal new mums. And more upsetting was the reluctance to speak...
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Women's Health in our CBD branch. Did you know that bladder control problems or incontinence is as common as 1 in every 3 women? Perhaps you are not aware, but did you know that there are women's health physiotherapists that can help? You don't have to put up with it! Heba at our CBD branch is train...
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Nobody wants pain, but without it, we wouldn't survive for long. Its purpose is to protect us from danger by changing our behaviour. An example of this is telling us to quickly take our hand off the hot stovetop so we don't get burnt, or making us limp when we sprain an ankle, so we can heal. Pain h...
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Men can benefit greatly from $1. Use it as a complimentary session to your gym, running or soccer training regimes and see the difference. Here are 5 reasons why getting down on the mats can be a great and worthwhile thing to do: **Discover muscles you thought you never had.** Lifting weights, runni...
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For those that may know me, I am quite certain that they would agree that I am pretty good at keeping control and good at NOT losing things. However, when pregnant and mum of a small child (twice), I managed to do all but that! Locking myself out of my home, reversing into a car park concrete pillar...
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