Pelvic Floor & Women Physiotherapy in Dubai

What Is Prenatal Physiotherapy?

The goal of prenatal physiotherapy is to improve prenatal fitness of women to ensure that they have a healthier and easier pregnancy and delivery. A physiotherapist can evaluate, assess, treat and educate women on safe and effective exercises that can help with back pain, pelvic pain, and urinary incontinence. The physiotherapist can also work with your team of doctors and gynecologists to create a plan that follows a holistic approach to healthcare wherein detailed assessments and findings are exchanged between the doctors and the physiotherapist. 

To help with issues during the prenatal phase, the physiotherapist will design a plan specifically for you that will take care of strengthening your pelvic floor and core muscles, and improving your flexibility, strength and joint mobilizations. Over and above this, the physiotherapist will also educate you and offer you advice on several aspects of the pregnancy phase and how to remain fit in the same. 

As a part of prenatal physiotherapy, your physiotherapist can help you in the following ways: 

• The physiotherapist will teach you exercises that will help you remain fit and healthy. All these exercises are safe and are easily doable for pregnant women. 
• The physiotherapist will show you the correct postures and strategies to ensure that the strain in your lower back and pelvic joints is as less as possible during pregnancy. 
• The physiotherapist will help relieve lower back pain and pelvic girdle pain and can also show you exercises to prevent the same. 
• The physiotherapist will tell you everything that you need to know about pelvic floor muscles and will show you how to do pelvic floor exercises.
• The physiotherapist will guide you through ways of how to rest comfortably and how to deal with other minor problems related to the pregnancy. 
• Prenatal physiotherapy will prepare your pelvic floor for labor, and you will also learn about perineal massage and other strategies.
• The physiotherapist will also give you advice on your posture along with suggesting some active strategies for pain management during labor.

Postnatal Physiotherapy

Postnatal physiotherapy is meant to help you return to an active lifestyle post childbirth in an easy and effective manner. Postnatal physiotherapy also helps minimize post labor complications of back pain, pelvic pain and weakness. The physiotherapist will customize and tailor a physiotherapy plan just for you, that will take care of your specific needs, requirements and concerns post delivering the baby. 

Post pregnancy and delivery, the pelvic floor muscles tend to become weak. This leads to issues in continence, pelvic stability and sexual function. To avoid long term issues, pelvic floor exercises are essential. After delivering the baby, you will also need to lift and hold the baby a lot in sustained positions, and this can lead to aches and pains. All of this can be taken care of through postnatal physiotherapy. 

Following are the common problems that postnatal physiotherapy can help with: 

• Stress and urge incontinence
• Pain in the pelvic and lower back
• Pain in the neck and upper back 
• Diastasis Recti (Abdominal separation)

Post delivery, your physiotherapist will take the following assessments to evaluate your condition: 

• Internal pelvic floor assessment
• Pelvis, SIJ and Lumbar spine assessment
• Abdominal separation assessment
• Return to sport assessment
• Scar assessment

In postnatal physiotherapy, the physiotherapist will help you in the following ways: 

• The physiotherapist will offer guidance on how to recover after childbirth, whether you’ve had a vaginal delivery or a C-section. 
• The physiotherapist will assess and work on your posture, breathing, abdominal muscles gap and pelvic floor muscle function through exercises. 
• The physiotherapist will devise a specific exercise programme to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles and abdominal muscles. 
• The physiotherapist will take you through how to exercise safely in postpartum. 
• The physiotherapist will also assess and treat any symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction that you might be dealing with. 
• The physiotherapist will guide you through ways of how to improve your bladder, bowel, sexual and pelvic health.
• Through physiotherapy, the physiotherapist will ensure that you undergo abdominal and core strengthening, treatment of musculoskeletal issues and management of scar tissue. 
• The physiotherapist will also give you guidance and advice related to nutrition, sleep, posture and ergonomics.