023 - Menopause & the Pelvic Floor - Nicola Mulkeen & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Newson is speaking with Nicola Mulkeen, a very experienced and knowledgeable pelvic floor physiotherapist. Together they discuss what exactly the pelvic floor muscles are and what they do in our bodies. Nicola talks about the importance of regular pelvic floor exercises and how to perform them. Dr Newson also asks Nicola about different types of urinary incontinence and how women experiencing symptoms should be receiving the right help and treatment.
Find out more about Nicola here: https://www.newsonhealth.co.uk/holistic-therapies/physiotherapy
Nicola Mulkeen's Three Take Home Tips for Pelvic Floor Health:
- Don't suffer in silence - get a referral from your GP if you have any concerns.
- Prevention is better than reacting to symptoms once they occur, so it's always a good time to start thinking about your pelvic floor health.
- Don't be embarrassed to talk about bladder and bowel problems or sexual health.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 0:15.1 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:30.7 | So today I've got Nicola Malkin, who's a local pelvic floor physiotherapist who, we're really fortunate, works with us in my Menopause and Well-Being Clinic in Stratford-upon-Avon, |
| 0:35.6 | as well as working locally and the NHS. So hi Nicola. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi there, Louise. So pelvic floor physiotherapist, I'm not sure many people will know what that is. |
| 0:46.0 | So before we get started, can you just explain what that means? Yeah, so a pelvic floor physiotherapist |
| 0:52.9 | is someone that deals with any sort of symptoms problems |
| 0:57.6 | related usually to the pelvic area. So it could be related to urinary incontinence, |
| 1:03.8 | symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse, which we can talk about a little bit more, any difficulties |
| 1:09.0 | following childbirth, for example, tears or |
| 1:12.6 | traumatic deliveries. So it's, it's all about really addressing the pelvic floor muscles, |
| 1:18.4 | which are the muscles that sit in the basin of the pelvis. And those muscles are there to |
| 1:23.4 | help keep women continent from a bladder and a bowel point of view and they're also there |
| 1:28.0 | to enhance sexual responses as well so yeah a lot of people don't really appreciate that |
| 1:34.0 | we've even got a pelvic floor yeah so yeah so because pelvic floor sounds a bit weird doesn't it |
| 1:39.8 | doesn't it sound like it should be in a part of our anatomy. And it's not just one muscle, is it? |
| 1:45.2 | No, I mean, it's a group of muscles. We have a superficial layer of pelvic floor. We also have deep muscles. |
| 1:53.6 | And actually, the expanse is much wider than I think a lot of people understand. So when I first speak to patients, I always kind of ask them if |
| 2:02.1 | they know what the pelvic floor muscles are and very few have a very good grasp of that. |
| 2:07.6 | So I would get a pelvic model out and I would demonstrate exactly where the pelvic floor muscles |
| 2:13.0 | run from. So the front of the pelvis, the pubic bone and they run all the way around and attach on |
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