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Pelvic Health Physiotherapy

Novella Health provides focused physiotherapy care in Women's Health, Pelvic Rehab, and Fertility Optimisation. Whether you are preparing for birth, recovering postpartum, finding getting pregnant challenging, moving through menopause, or managing long-standing pelvic concerns, we offer personalised, evidence-informed and experienced-based support through every stage of life.

What We
Offer

Pregnancy & Postpartum Care

  • Postpartum check ups

  • Abdominal separation

  • Pregnancy and Postpartum leaking

  • Prehab Planning for Caesarean Birth and TOLAC/VBAC

  • Recovery Planning for Caesarean and TOLAC/VBAC

  • Birth preparation sessions for pelvic floor awareness, perineal massage, breathing, and positioning

  • Pelvic girdle or lower back pain in pregnancy

  • Postnatal pelvic floor and core assessments

  • Scar tissue release work (Perineal or C-section) 

  • Perineal tear management (can be seen from day 2 postpartum)

  • Return-to-exercise guidance and safe movement strategies

  • Any pregnancy and postpartum concerns

    

Perimenopause & Menopause Support

  • Pelvic floor education for bladder or bowel changes (urgency, frequency, incontinence)

  • Support for pelvic organ prolapse symptoms (including pessary fitting)

  • Sexual discomfort, pain and vaginal dryness

  • Core and pelvic floor strength and coordination

  • Bone health and mobility through safe exercise prescription with pelvic concerns

Common Concerns

  • Pelvic organ prolapse (including pessary fitting and support)

  • Perineal tear assessment and recovery strategies

  • Dyspareunia (painful sex), vaginismus, and other sexual pain

  • Endometriosis issues such as reducing inflammation, increasing mobility, painful sex, bladder and bowel issues

  • Bladder issues: urgency, frequency, stress incontinence, incomplete emptying

  • Bowel issues: constipation, urgency, incontinence, post-surgical care, dyssergenic defecation

  • Fertility concerns

  • Chronic hip or back pain that is not resolving with he usual routes

  • Support pre and postprolapse repair and hysterectomy

Fertility Optimisation

  • Each session will guide you through the challenges you face, whether that is your cycle, diet, sleep, stress, pelvic pain or other concerns. We work with cycle and ovulation nuances, hormone and lab testing results, and can help you understand the process whether you are going the natural route or the medical route. We also can work hands on with any scar tissue or abdominal adhesions.​

Paediatric Continence Support

  • Bladder and bowel incontinence

  • Bedwetting, urgency, and frequency in children

Men's Pelvic Floor

  • Pre and post prostectomy planning and recovery- pelvic floor

  • Overactive Bladder

  • Incontinence (bladder and bowel)

Novella Health is a trauma-aware sensitive practice. We understand that seeking care for pelvic health may feel vulnerable, especially if you have a history of birth trauma, sexual abuse, domestic or intimate partner violence, and/or postpartum depression or PTSD. You are always in control of your care. We go at your pace, and you never need to disclose anything unless you choose to.
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