Physio Effect

17/10/2025

15/10/2025

Early Postpartum Tips for Pelvic Floor

🙂 Pelvic Floor Exercises
Throughout the day try to practice a few pelvic floor muscle contractions. You may find it easier to do it lying down or in sitting. You should be able to feel a gentle lift of the pelvic floor without your pelvis tilting and without your legs or bum muscles working hard. You should also be able to feel it relaxing. Try for some longer contractions and some short, fast ones too.

🤱 Gentle Exercise
In the first days postpartum, take it easy. No matter how your baby was born, the body goes through a lot to bring your little one into the world. You might feel like you can do more exercise wise, but do you really need to? Give your body time to rest and recover and gradually build in your exercises.

For more information see the linktree in our bio 🏃💡👶

13/10/2025

We want to congratulate Maureen and Kaley for both completing their first Ultra races at the weekend at the Aberfoyle Trail Running Festival. Maureen did the 32-mile race and Kaley the 39-mile race. Well done, and does this mean the Ultra bug has bit you both?! 😜

13/10/2025

Over the weekend, Mariam & Jenny, our pelvic health physios, attended the Pelvic Obstetric & Gynaecology Physiotherapy (POGP) conference, which was held in Edinburgh this year. Lots of learning and connecting from other expert physiotherapists in this field!

07/10/2025

We are delighted for Jenny who got a PB in the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon last Sunday 🏃🏽‍♀️🏅 We know a few of you also ran over the weekend and achieved your goals whether it was your own PBs or your first race postpartum. Congratulations from us all at Physio Effect!

03/10/2025

Great Scottish Run🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️👟

We want to wish all our friends and clients taking part in the The Great Scottish Run 10k/Half Marathon on Sunday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 especially oor Jenny, who is running the Half Marathon 🙌 Hopefully that's Storm Amy well and truly past!

25/09/2025

An afternoon well spent for the team today for some learning, revising and CPD 📖🤓

23/09/2025

This is a public service announcement 📣😎

Please extend a warm welcome to the newest member of the Physio Effect Team, Shane 🙌 🥳

Shane is a Physiotherapist and will have availability for physio appointments on Mondays & Saturdays starting on 29th September.

You can book in to see him through our website via the link tree 🌳 on our bio 👤 or check out our stories for a direct link to Shane's online booking diary.

22/09/2025

A big shout out to all who completed the Highland Fling Ultramarathon at the weekend! In particular, Lynn, Chris, John, and Gary, who are coached by Jonny and all successfully completed 🥳🎉🎊 You guys all did great and have the race experience now to look forward to building on for next year. Jonny says he is very proud of you all and looks forward to a journey with you into your races and projects next year.

We also want to congratulate everyone who ran in the Salomon Skyline races and the Pilgrims Ultra. A couple of podiums for our clients Michelle, in the Salomon Trail Marathon (1st place 🥇) and Katherine (3rd place🥉) in the Pilgrim Ultra.

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19/09/2025

The Red Carpet of dreams!!! We want to wish everyone doing the Highland Fling 53 mile Ultramarathon tomorrow, the very best of luck! A special race for husband and wife team Jonny and Mariam, who have both stepped foot on that special finishers red carpet. A memorable moment for those lucky enough to experience it. We want to especially wish Jonny's coached athletes towing the start line in the morning. You have all trained well, so just go and enjoy it! 🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️⛰️🏞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

17/09/2025

😁Self help strategies to help manage back pain:

1- Keep moving
2- Establish routine & be proactive not reactive, think 2-3 minutes activity every hour rather than a 30 minute blast at the end of the day.
3- Accept responsibility & seek guidance. It is your body and your back and you need to find a way forward, nobody can do it for you.
4- Exercise for fun, exercise should be enjoyable and a way to relax your mind as well as your body.
5- Manage stress.
6- Be patient. You won’t change things overnight and chances are you will have many peaks and troughs in your recovery.


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16/09/2025

Have you ever booked a Running Technique Assessment with us? 😃

With this assessment you will have your running assessed on a treadmill via slow motion video. This is a great place to start to show general running traits that we can work on to improve your running form. 🏃‍♂️

We can cue your running to address adverse loading on a current injury, prevent injury or increase efficiency and speed. 💡

During this assessment we will also discuss your running practices such as volume and zone intensity in training as well as gather data from your running such as your cadence. ✍️

All this information is considered for your bespoke running plan as no two runners will have the exact same running practices, biomechanics or running technique. 🏃‍♀️

Your experienced Sports Physiotherapist will identify how your injury or problem relates to what is seen in your slow motion video from the treadmill and referenced to data from your own watch data from outdoor runs. 🍁

They will then be able to form a bespoke running rehab plan for you, coaching the various exercises and running technique alterations that you need on your return appointment. 😁

This assessment provides essential coaching for anyone who is starting out running and is just looking to ensure they’re running in a way that is less likely to cause them problems. 🦵

It is also very insightful for more seasoned runners who are currently not injured to just see how they are running and if anything should be worked on. Lets face it, very few of us have had any form of running technique coaching and we could all look to improve it! 🏆


For further information or to book an appointment please see linktree in bio 🦶❤️