Home-based pelvic health physiotherapy*

At Pelvic Physio London, we bring specialist women’s health physiotherapy directly to you. 

Lucie O’Shaughnessy, a specialised women’s health physiotherapist and Mummy MOT practitioner delivers home-based pelvic health assessments and treatments, serving Walthamstow and surrounding East London areas*.

*Please get in touch and check if you are within our catchment area.

Whether you’re navigating the postnatal period, managing pelvic pain, or dealing with symptoms you’ve been putting up with for years - you don’t have to. These things are common, but they’re not normal, and the right support can make all the difference.

Pelvic health physiotherapy can help with:

Bladder symptoms:

• Urinary leakage/incontinence
  • stress urinary incontinence (leaking with coughing, sneezing, exercise)
  • urgency urinary incontinence
  • mixed incontinence
• Overactive bladder
• Urinary urgency and frequency
• Nocturia (waking at night to pass urine)
• Difficulty emptying the bladder

Bowel symptoms:

• Constipation
• Difficulty emptying bowels
• Faecal incontinence/bowel leakage
• Urgency to open bowels
• Pelvic floor dyssynergia (poor coordination of pelvic floor muscles)

Pelvic floor dysfunction:

• Weak pelvic floor muscles
• Overactive/tight pelvic floor muscles
• Pelvic organ prolapse symptoms
• Reduced pelvic floor coordination

Pelvic pain conditions:

• Persistent pelvic pain
• Pain during intimacy (dyspareunia)
• Vulvodynia
• Vaginismus
• Endometriosis-related symptoms
• Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis
• Pudendal neuralgia
• Coccyx/tailbone pain

Pregnancy and postnatal care / support:

• Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
• Low back pain during pregnancy
• Preparation for birth
• Postnatal recovery
• Abdominal muscle separation (diastasis recti)
• Return to exercise and running after childbirth
• Caesarean section scar management

Sexual health and function:

Physiotherapy may assist with:

• Pain with intercourse or penetration
• Pelvic floor tension affecting sexual function
• Confidence and education around pelvic floor function
• Rehabilitation after pelvic or gynaecological surgery

Musculoskeletal and functional issues:

• Hip, lower back, and pelvic movement patterns linked to pelvic symptoms
• Breathing and pressure management
• Exercise modification
• Return to sport and gym-based activities