Physiotherapy is an allied health service that provides inpatient and outpatient care for patients of the Women’s.
Our physiotherapists have specialist knowledge of women’s health through all stages of the life cycle from newborns to adolescents, through the childbearing years to older women’s health and during cancer treatment.
Physiotherapy treatment focuses on maintaining and restoring normal function, minimising dysfunction, preventing disability and improving quality of life.
Specialities
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, including incontinence and prolapse
- Musculoskeletal pain in the childbearing years
- Sexual dysfunction, including dyspareunia, vaginismus, post-radiation care
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Vulval conditions, including vulvodynia or vaginismus
- Newborn conditions, including positional talipes, plagiocephaly, torticollis, brachial plexus palsy
- Exercise therapy
- Diabetes during pregnancy
- Women’s cancers, including breast and gynaecological
- Bowel disorders including constipation and incontinence
Clinical inclusion
- All inpatients and outpatients of the hospital, with physiotherapy conditions related to women’s health
- Patients must be registered with a hospital clinic and reviewed by a Women’s physiotherapist prior to attending all exercise classes
- Women reporting pregnancy-related musculoskeletal pain must be delivering at the Women’s to be eligible for assessment and treatment
Frequency
The Physiotherapy department is open from 8:30am to 5pm Monday to Friday.
8:30am to 12:30pm Saturday (ward cover only).
On-call service provided on weekends and public holidays.
Referral
Please note:
- Internal referral from other services at the Women's only – we do not accept referrals for patients who are not currently patients of the Women's i.e. from GPs.
- Outpatient appointments require a valid internal referral from a Women’s hospital department.
- Referrals are valid for 12 months.
Appointment
Patients will be notified of appointment details by letter or phone call. Confirmation texts are sent in the days before an outpatient appointment.
Related information
- Find a health information fact sheet for your patient
- Find health information for your patient
- The Continence Foundation of Australia
- Pelvic Floor First
- The Cancer Council of Australia
- The Victorian Continence Resource Centre
- Find a Physio (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
- Urogynaecology Clinic
- Chronic Pelvic Pain Clinic