Back Pain and Pregnancy: Causes and Relief Your body undergoes tremendous changes during pregnancy. It’s not just the growing belly, morning sickness and weird food cravings. You may experience pregnancy-related changes to your hair, skin, nails, veins, body temperature and mood. And you might experience back pain pain during pregnancy. What’s going on there? …
Why you should you get physiotherapy before and after pregnancy It’s probably no surprise to anyone who’s been pregnant (or just spent time with someone else who is) that growing a human is an incredibly physically demanding time for a mum-to-be. In fact, studies now show that pregnancy ranks alongside ultramarathon running and the Tour…
If your back aches long after you’ve delivered your baby, you’re certainly not alone. Persistent postpartum back pain affects around half of the world’s mothers. This unwelcome aftereffect of the endurance event of pregnancy and childbirth can last for weeks or months. As a busy mother, we understand that it can be tough to find…
If your work or recreational activity involves heavy lifting you’ve probably heard and heeded the conventional advice to ‘lift with your legs not with your back.’ Bending your knees and keeping a straight or neutral back has been a core manual handling technique for decades. Traditional manual handling training developed around the idea that our…
The health and wellbeing benefits of yoga are well established. Practicing at a level that’s right for you can increase strength, flexibility and balance and reduce stress. As with any sport or physical activity, there is always the risk of injury. Common yoga injuries Poor technique and over stretching are common causes of yoga injuries…
4 Ways Your Physiotherapist Can Care For You During Pregnancy Mothers may not be surprised to learn that as an endurance event, pregnancy ranks alongside ultramarathon running and the Tour de France. Recent research into the limits of human endurance has revealed that ‘pregnancy is the longest duration, highest energy expenditure thing that humans…