Perinatal Physiotherapy
Motherhood is learning about the strengths you never knew you had.
Makewell Health provides perinatal support in every stage of motherhood - from thinking about conception, to managing your pregnancy symptoms, preparing you for labour and supporting you in your postpartum life. At Makewell Health, our goal is to empower you to take charge of your health and feel the best you can.
How we do this:
1- Initial Assessment
During your initial 60-minute appointment, you and your therapist will spend some time talking and discussing your current and previous life events. Your therapist will ask questions related to your pregnancy and delivery, menstruation, sexual intercourse, diet, sleeping habits and premedical history to get a bigger picture on the root cause of your symptoms. Your physical assessment will involve both an external (movement) and internal pelvic floor examination. This is not absolutely necessary but it does give the therapist a better picture of how your pelvic floor muscles and organs are presenting. Internal examinations also help you to learn and understand your exercises to the best of your ability.
2- Follow-up Treatments
Follow-up treatments are approximately 30-mins in length (45- and 60-minutes also available) and gives you and your therapist the opportunity to discuss progress and treatment. Treatment involves a combination of hands-on manual therapy, exercise prescription and education. These follow-up treatments are essential to ensure progression or modification of your treatment plan to further you towards your goals.
3- Discharge
This is both an exciting and sad day for our therapists - it is the day when you and your therapist agree that you have reached your goals and no longer require active treatment. No concerns - your therapist will give you adequate education on how to continue managing your health to avoid return of symptoms. Should your symptoms return, a new issue arrises or you simply want to check in for maintenance treatments, we are always happy to see you again!
- Conception
Conception
Thinking about growing your family but not sure where to begin? Conception isn’t easy for everyone. In fact, in Canada, approximately 1 in every 6 couples experience infertility and 1 in every 4 women have a pregnancy that ends in a miscarriage. If you have experienced this, you may be feeling angry, frustrated and defeated. At Makewell Health, we support you as early as when you’re thinking of growing your family. Whether it be through optimizing your pelvic floor health, receiving acupuncture treatment to boost your fertility, or massage therapy to promote relaxation we are here to help.
- Pregnancy
Pregnancy
Finding out your pregnant can be a very exciting time for you and your partner - that is, until you begin to experience the nausea, fatigue and heartburn. As these symptoms settle down in the second trimester, you may find yourself dealing with all sorts of pregnancy pain, including hip and low back pain, pubis symphysis dysfunction, tailbone pain and more. Pelvic floor physiotherapy is one of the best investments you can make in your pregnancy. Your pelvic floor physiotherapist will work with you to reduce and eliminate your pain leading up to your due date, provide safe and effective exercise recommendations and prepare you for your delivery, whatever that may look like for you. Education is provided to you on how to optimize your labour and delivery experience, including pain management techniques, proper breathing mechanics, labouring with or without and epidural, how to push a baby out vaginally, how to manage a C-section and more.
- Postpartum
Postpartum
There continues to be a huge gap in healthcare, in which many postpartum moms feel unsupported and undervalued. This is at a time in their life where they are feeling the most vulnerable, confused and sleep deprived. The healing postpartum body combined with fluctuations in hormones can lead to feelings of anxiety, isolation and resentment. At Makewell Health, our goal is to give you support during this exciting but difficult time. Before you even have your baby, the therapists at Makewell give you the education you need to optimize your postpartum recovery - this includes having your first postpartum bowel movement, managing your C-section scar or perineal tearing, safe return to exercise, and more.
Parenthood doesn’t end at having your little one.
The team at Makewell Health is dedicated to continue to support you through all your parenthood needs.
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