Menopause and your brain

Menopause and your brain

Did you know women are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and depression than men? They are also more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease – ⅔ of people suffering from this disease are women. Could it be that women live longer and are therefore more...
EMDR

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach, aimed at processing distressing or traumatic memories. The theory underpinning EMDR is that many presenting psychological difficulties are due to one or many distressing experiences...
Breathing

Breathing

Or should you rather hold your breath? A new look at research seems to show that we overbreathe. One theory for this is that our breathing became obstructed due to changes in our facial structure a few hundred years ago, due to a change in our diet – everything became...
Menopause

Menopause

what is it and what can you do about it? Menopause is when the menses (meno) stop (pause) for a year. In most women this change happens around the age of 51, but due to gradually declining hormone levels, symptoms usually start about 7 years before – the peri (around...
The Mummy MOT

The Mummy MOT

Fleet Physio is proud to announce that we are certified to offer the Mummy MOT!   The Mummy MOT offers integrated postnatal physiotherapy and functional fitness for women from 6 weeks after giving birth. This enables early identification of potential issues in...
Post Natal Depression

Post Natal Depression

A topic I’d like to discuss today that has little to do with physiotherapy, but as a Mummy Mot practitioner I see a lot of, is post-natal PTSD.   Although they need to be addressed as separate illnesses, post–natal depression and PN PTSD can overlap. It often...