Make Your Pregnancy, Delivery, and Postpartum Recovery as Smooth as Possible with Prenatal and Postnatal Physiotherapy!
Are you currently pregnant or are you re-adjusting to life after pregnancy? You probably have an excellent medical team that is looking after you and your little one. Whether you have chosen a midwife, family doctor or obstetrician, consider adding a pelvic health physiotherapist to your healthcare team!
To prepare for childbirth, your body goes through some incredible physical changes — ligaments become more flexible, blood volume increases, your center of gravity shifts, and even your posture changes. These physical changes happen relatively quickly and some parts of your body may find it more difficult to adapt than others.
Our Pregnancy Program is designed to help you thrive during pregnancy and to maximize your recovery afterward — regardless of how you are feeling now, whether you delivered vaginally or via C-section, or how much time has passed!
What does the program offer?
During pregnancy:
- Safely strengthen your core and continue exercising
- Assess and minimize the progression of abdominal muscle separation (rectus diastasis)
- Minimize your risk of incontinence, prolapse, and tearing
- Prevent or treat back, hip, tailbone, or pubic pain
- Treat incontinence and symptoms related to prolapse
- Custom compression socks for swelling or varicose veins
- Prepare your body for labor and delivery
After pregnancy:
- Return to previous levels of exercise and fitness, including running and weightlifting
- Increase core muscle strength
- Resolve abdominal muscle separation
- Decrease back, hip, tailbone or pubic pain
- Return to pain-free sex
- Treat incontinence and symptoms related to prolapse
- Decrease scar sensitivity (C-section or perineal)
- Prepare your body for another pregnancy
Each woman’s experience with pregnancy and delivery is incredibly different. If you have specific questions or concerns, please email pelvic.health@foundationphysio.com to schedule a free phone consultation and learn how this program can be customized for you.
Our Toronto team of pelvic health physiotherapists has extensive postgraduate training in pregnancy, pelvic pain, and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. This program was developed with the goal of empowering more women to feel confident and strong throughout their pregnancy journey, and to help make pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum recovery as easy as possible!
By including physiotherapy in your prenatal and postnatal care, you can be better prepared for one of the biggest challenges in your life: delivering and caring for a baby. You don’t need to suffer before or after delivery. Schedule an appointment at Foundation Physiotherapy & Wellness and we’ll create a plan to help you along in your pregnancy.
THIS SERVICE IS AVAILABLE AT:
Alisha Morrison
RMT
Registered Massage Therapist (Senior Associate)
Lamiya Zaidi
MScPT
Registered Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist
Karlyn Driedger
BScKin, MScPT, CIDN
Clinic Director, Registered Physiotherapist (Partner Associate), Pelvic Health Physiotherapist
Stephanie Fleming
PT
Registered Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Dance Rehab and Performance Consultant, Running Consultant
Annika Lonsway
MScPT
Registered Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
Kanupriya Garg
PT
Pelvic Health Physiotherapist
Holly Henderson
PT
Pelvic Health Physiotherapist
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