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Pregnancy and postnatal fitness classes led by Chartered Physiotherapists. Pregnancy fitness classes instructed by a Chartered Physiotherapist.

We help women feel relaxed energised and informed to exercise safely during pregnancy.

10/11/2025

Announcing the next webinar in our series:

C-Section Scar Massage Techniques

📌Speaker: Fiona Healy
📆Date: Monday 17th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

Research indicates that C-section scar massage effectively improve scar quality and reduce pain. Manual therapy can support proper scar formation.
This webinar will discuss the latest research on manual therapy techniques and demonstrate common techniques used to mobilise the scar.

In this webinar, you learn about:

✅Understand the research behind manual therapy for cesarean section scars.
✅Learn manual therapy techniques for use on cesarean section scars.

Link in bio for more information

06/11/2025

Announcing Ailish Cleary's webinar in our series:

Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain

📌Speaker: Ailish Cleary
📆Date: Thursday 13th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

Currently the research on Pelvic girdle pain is non-specific about the type of exercises to include. This can lead to uncertainty when dealing with it in a class setting and a reluctance for women to continue to exercise. We know 1/10 in women will develop chronic pain as a result of pregnancy related pelvic girdle pain.

In this webinar, you learn:
✅ The current evidence-based knowledge about pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.
✅ To reframe your narrative about PGP to align with the clinical evidence (words are powerful!)
✅ Specific and inclusive exercises to use as modifications for women experiencing PGP in a class setting.
✅ List of resources to direct women towards.

03/11/2025

Announcing Sinéad McCarthy's first webinar in our series:

Chronic Pelvic Pain and Gut Health

📌Speaker: Sinéad McCarthy
📆Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

In this webinar you will learn about:
✅Chronic overlapping pain conditions
✅Gut-Brain Axis
✅What is the evidence base for management?
✅Physiotherapeutic management
✅Pain education
✅Practical treatment strategies
✅Self-care for the practitioner!

Link in the bio to book

02/11/2025

Announcing Suzanne Carney's Second webinar in our series:

Breastfeeding and Physiotherapy

📌Speaker: Suzanne Carney
📆Date: Tuesday 11th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

Mastitis and cracked ni***es are two of the main reasons why a mum’s breastfeeding journey comes to a premature end. However physiotherapists can offer a range of treatments to help alleviate these issues.
In this webinar you will learn about:

✅ Therapeutic Ultrasound for Mastitis
✅ Lymphatic Drainage Massage
✅ Stretching Options for the affected area
✅ Photobiomodulation (LASER) for cracked ni***es
✅ Home Education/Advice

Link in the bio to book

23/10/2025

Guest Speaker Introduction:

Susan Stephenson

Susan Stephenson is a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in pelvic health, with extensive experience in the management of pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. She qualified from Keele University, England in 2007 and went on to complete her post Graduate Certificate in Continence in the University of Bradford in 2014.

Her career has spanned public and private practice in both Australia and Ireland with roles in inpatient maternity wards, outpatient services, gynae clinics - setting up one of the first gynae triage services in Cavan General Hospital, and most recently in Primary Care Sligo Leitrim as part of the Urology Pathway.

In addition to her clinical practice, Susan has taught nationally and internationally, including with Taryn Hallam (WHTA) in Ireland and at PelviCon, USA, the CFI (Continence Foundation Ireland) inaugural pessary course in 2025 and the POGP (Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy group) in the UK.

She is now leading Haven Pelvic Health in Sligo, a dedicated service for women’s and men’s pelvic health. Through pessary care, exercise, rehabilitation and holistic support, her mission is to empower women with prolapse and incontinence to make informed choices and regain confidence in their pelvic health.

20/10/2025

Our 4th webinar in our series is :

Physiotherapy for OAB

📌Speaker: Fiona Healy
📆Date: Tuesday 6th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

A recent systematic review estimated the incidence of OAB
to be 20% in women worldwide (Zhang et al, 2025).
5 phenotypes of OAB have been proposed and there are
multiple physiological factors impacting the symptoms.
How does this influence the physiotherapy management?

In this webinar we will discuss:
✅normal micturition v OAB,
✅the phenotypes and causes of OAB,
✅assessment and
✅physiotherapy management of symptoms.

Link in the bio for more information

19/10/2025

Introducing our guest speaker Sinéad O’Connell

Sinead qualified with a B.Sc. (Hons) Physiotherapy degree from Trinity College Dublin.

She initially worked in a variety of locum roles before spending four years completing in-patient and outpatient rotations at University Hospital Limerick, which culminated in an Acting Senior role in Women's Health at the University Maternity Hospital Limerick.

Having completed this, she travelled to Melbourne, Australia where she continued to develop her skills in musculoskeletal and pelvic health physiotherapy in private practice.

Subsequently, she spent four years in London working as part of, and ultimately leading, a team of Women's and Men's Health physiotherapists whilst simultaneously achieving a Masters degree in Continence for Physiotherapists from the University of Bradford.

She also served on the Education Sub-committee of the Pelvic Obstetric & Gynaecological Physiotherapy (POGP) special interest group of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. Here she helped to research and develop Clinical Practice Guidelines on various topics within pelvic health for members and participated in the peer review process of journal articles, as well as course development.

Sinéad completed research in the area of pelvic floor muscle training and presented her findings at the POGP conference in Liverpool in 2016, and was subsequently published.

In 2017, Sinéad moved back to Ireland where she took up a role at the Mercy University Hospital in Cork, which is designated the regional Centre for Gastroenterology. As a Clinical Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, she now treats a caseload of male and female patients referred from consultants in gastroenterology, colorectal and urology. She also sees a varied list of antenatal, postnatal, male, female and paediatric clients in private practice.

Since 2018 she has tutored on the POGP Urinary Dysfunction course, teaching in the UK and Ireland several times a year, and has developed and taught several courses in Ireland on anorectal assessment, lower bowel dysfunction and pain in the recent years.

15/10/2025

Our 3rd webinar in our series is :

Stress Urinary Incontinence

📌Speaker: Suzanne Carney
📆Date: Tuesday 4th November 2025
⏰Time: 7.30pm-9pm
📍Livestream on zoom

🔶Recording available for one month after the webinar
🔶€40 (or buy 5 webinars and get a 6th free)

1 in 3 women will experience stress urinary incontinence (SUI) at some point in their life. Although the risk increases with age, approx 50% of teenage girls report SUI when playing high impact sport.
This is where a close relationship with a pelvic health physiotherapist is important as they provide treatment and education to help alleviate this socially isolating problem.

In this webinar you will learn about:

✅ What is SUI and possible causes.
✅ When pelvic floor squeezes are appropriate and when they are not.
✅ Lifestyle factors that influence the problem
✅ Adaptations to exercise and rehabilitation strategies

Link in the bio to book

13/10/2025

Introducing our first guest speaker for our Autumn/Winter series: Suzanne Carney

Suzanne Carney (BSc, MSc Hons Physio, MISCP) is a Clinical Specialist in Women’s, Men’s and Pelvic Health Physiotherapy. She is the founder and director of Anatomy Physiotherapy based in Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Suzanne is a wealth of knowledge and holds a Masters degree of Clinical Physiotherapy in Continence and Women’s Health from the prestigious Curtin University, Australia. This postgraduate training covered all aspects of women’s, men’s and children’s pelvic health and continence. She also has a degree in Biomedical Science & IT from NUI Galway where her major subject was Human Anatomy and she completed her undergraduate physiotherapy degree in 2009 from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.

Suzanne has worked both publicly and privately in the UK, Australia and Ireland both as an inpatient and outpatient physiotherapist. She completed her basic rotations within the NHS and the Australian Medicare system to solidify her knowledge prior to specialisation. Suzanne has worked with and been mentored by pelvic health industry leaders and set-up the women’s health department in a brand-new hospital in Australia in 2015. She was also the Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association Western Australia branch for Women’s, Men’s and Pelvic Health Physiotherapy for many years advocating for her patients and the profession as a whole.

Suzanne is passionate about her job, her patients and providing a high-quality service in a caring, compassionate and understanding manner. She combines her expert knowledge and experience to provide an evidenced based and patient-centred treatment plan. She is also a specialist in treating breastfeeding conditions such as mastitis and blocked ducts.

Suzanne is also an advocate for free pelvic health education to all, via her own social media channels, radio and print media and the Get Mayo Moving campaign. She regularly lectures and speaks at conferences. She also teaches courses to other physiotherapists in advanced practices.

12/10/2025

Our second webinar in our series is:

A whole-body approach to Return to Running after pregnancy

Female participation in running has increased in recent years. For women with young children, it is convenient, cost effective, and flexible.

A study by Moore et al (2021) reported 84% of women experience musculoskeletal pain on return to running and 29% experience urinary incontinence.

Are we preparing our women adequately for return to running post birth?

In this webinar, you learn about:
✅The pelvic floor and diaphragm connection.
✅Thoracic mobility.
✅Difference between male and female runners.
✅MSK changes to the lower limb muscles and biomechanics after pregnancy.
✅Return to running load and strength tests.
✅Strategies for reducing load impact.
✅Rehab strategies to ensure our women are ready for return to running.

12/10/2025

Limerick Classes kicking off this Tuesday!

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09/10/2025

Introducing the first webinar in our series:

Guidelines & recommendations for exercise in pregnancy

Speaker: Caitriona Quinn.

In this webinar, you learn about:
✅ Evidence based benefits of exercise in pregnancy
✅ Guidelines pregnancy
✅ Exercise recommendations for exercising in / progressions / modifications
✅ MSK complications and advice during pregnancy

Catriona is a chartered physiotherapist who has co-founded The Bump Room and has led pregnancy fitness classes for over 10 years.

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Thursday	9:30am - 5pm
Friday	9:30am - 5pm

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