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 likely to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The scourge of many a poor pregnant woman is pain – specifically pain in the pelvic girdle(PGP). This pain is differentiated from lower back pain (but can occur simultaneously) as it is below the big pelvic bones in the back to the fold below your buttock and can also...

An increasing number of people that come to see me are not in immediate acute pain but are actively trying to avoid future injury or disease by having preventative treatment and gaining advice.   The useful analogy of health is a four-legged table each...

After the excesses of the holiday season we set off all too often in the New Year to a great start of good intentions. We will lose the weight, change the habits and start exercising. Now, excuse me for being negative, but there is little more depressing than setting...

The WHO states that healthy sexual function is a human right, but sex is the opposite of football – everybody does it but nobody talks about it. Look around you in the media and it is everywhere, but apart from the occasional snigger most people don’t talk about this...

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 breathing, posture and the pelvic floor that may arise as a result of pregnancy and...

The last decade or so has seen a move towards a more holistic view of health. I, for one, have never understood the dualist approach of mind and body as separate entities…Working with people on a daily basis, it is impossible not to see how the psyche affects the body...