Pelvic girdle pain physiotherapy or Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction treatment London (SPD) home visit & physiotherapy practice treatment in Moorgate Monument EC3, Belgravia Westminster SW1 or Clapham SW4
If you are an Axa or Bupa patient, you cannot book online. Please call our office with your authorisation number.
If you cannot find an appointment that suits you or would like a home visit, call us or send us a message: we will do our best to find you a slot.
Symphysis pubis dysfunction treatment (SPD), Pelvic Girdle Pain Treatment in London & Back Pain Treatment
Back pain and especially lower back pain are symptoms well known to the mothers-to-be.
Mummy’s Physio offers tailored physiotherapy treatment for pelvic girdle pain in London, made by a physiotherapist specialised in physiotherapy treatment for pregnant women. Don’t suffer during your pregnancy, only a few sessions will relieve your back or pelvic girdle pain (symphysis pubis dysfunction, SPD) and will allow you to have a painfree pregnancy.
Pelvic girdle pain physiotherapy treatment and assessment
In order to provide you with a tailored treatment of your pelvic girdle pain, the physiotherapist will assess you taking into account your medical history, your daily activities, your morphology and back position. You will do various exercises supervised by our pregnancy physiotherapist and they will also give you some more exercises to do in-between sessions for fast and effective relief. For the most simple cases of pelvic girdle pain, for example, hyper flexibility, learning how to ‘lock’ the pelvis is key to the treatment. Muscles are used to ‘block’ and strengthen the pelvis.
Pelvic girdle pain advice
Our Pelvic girdle pain treatment also includes advice to manage your pelvic girdle pain and how to move correctly to avoid your pain to come back. You will relearn how to move, how to turn around by ‘block’, how not to pull on your back nor pushing on your stomach to avoid wrong movements.
Pelvic Girdle pain PGP & SPD treatment at home in London
During your pregnancy, we understand some patients prefer not to take the transports or simply cannot move due to the pelvic girdle pain being too acute, that is why our team of pregnancy physios offer home visits physiotherapy treatments in London. Our pregnancy physio will come treat you at home with the same quality of treatment you would receive at our practices in Moorgate Monument, Belgravia or Clapham.
Pelvic Girdle pain PGP & SPD treatment in London in our practices in Belgravia SW1, Moorgate Monument EC3 and Clapham SW4
For pregnant women who can come to the clinic, our pelvic physio will treat you for pelvic girdle pain PGP at the Light Centre Belgravia SW1 in Westminster, near Victoria station, the Light Centre Monument EC3 between London Bridge and Bank Stations and our practices in Clapham SW4 between Clapham south and Clapham common Stations.
Our physiotherapy and osteopathy treatments are covered by most health insurances and are Bupa registered & recognised (BUPA Global and BUPA UK), Axa registered & recognised (AXA International, AXA PPP), Cigna registered & recognised and WPA registered & recognised
For SPD and PGP physiotherapy & osteopathy at home in London or in our practice 0207 125 0262 / 0782 455 3765
What is Pelvic Girdle Pain ?
Pelvic Girdle pain, also called PGD or symphysis pubic dysfunction SPD, often appears around the fifth month of pregnancy when the belly gets heavier. Also some women can find themselves ‘stuck’ after hoovering or by simply getting up from a chair. This intense pain travels along the leg and therefore some think this could be related to sciatica. The feeling is the same than sciatica but sciatica is chronic back pain while pelvic girdle pain is temporary and can be treated easily.
Symptoms of Pelvic Girdle Pain PGP
During pregnancy, sometimes as soon as the first semester and until right after giving birth, twinge and pinch like pains can be felt in the back.
The pelvis is painful and the pain can only be felt from one side and from the buttock to the thigh, or from the hip to the lower abdomen. This very much looks like sciatica except the pain is not felt all the way to the feet and is not constant as a change in posture can relieve it.
Why Pelvic Girdle Pain appears?
The most obvious is the growth of the baby, which moves your gravity centre forward. To avoid falling forward and to maintain balance, you pull your upper body backwards which increases your lower back’s arch.
The second reason is that with the growth of the belly, your abdominal belt is stretched more than usual. Your abdominal muscles lose their tonus and strength; therefore the normal balance between the abdominal and the lower back muscles changes and creates this painful sensation in your lower back or pelvis.
The last reason is hormonal – the increase of oestrogen and relaxin secretion distends your ligament and decreases the tonus of your abdominal muscles.
Not surprisingly, these factors combined with stress often lead to lower back pain or pelvic girdle pain (PGP).
Pelvic Girlde pain treatment, What’s new?
Hypopressive Method to treat pelvic girdle pain safely, Home visit & physiotherapy practice treatment London
Hypopressive Method is certainly the most advanced technique to relieves pelvic girdle pain PGP and back pain during pregnancy. Most women suffering from pelvic girdle pain & back pain during their pregnancy should not perform traditional abdominal exercises; it puts unwanted toxic pressure on the spine. Hypopressive method allows the physiotherapist to treat your pelvic girdle pain in the safest way possible during your pregnancy.
Because the method strengthens the abdominal wall without putting hurtful pressure on the spine, it is a far better option for anybody suffering from chronic back pain during pregnancy.
Every patient is different, so hypopressive method might not be indicated for every pelvic girdle pain. Our pelvic physio will determine what is the best technique to use to treat your pelvic pain.
To read more about hypopressive gymnastics: click here
Our physiotherapy and osteopathy treatments are covered by most health insurances and are Bupa registered & recognised (BUPA Global and BUPA UK), Axa registered & recognised (AXA International, AXA PPP), Cigna registered & recognised and WPA registered & recognised
For home visit physiotherapy & osteopathy in London, Belgravia, Moorgate Monument and Clapham: 0207 125 0262 / 0782 455 3765
If you are an Axa or Bupa patient, you cannot book online. Please call our office with your authorisation number.
If you cannot find an appointment that suits you or would like a home visit, call us or send us a message: we will do our best to find you a slot.