Resources to access:

Corina Avni is a physiotherapist based in Claremont, in the Western Cape who has an excellent local website on pelvic health. She has more than 20 years’ experience in pelvic health and is currently doing her PhD. Please visit her website for very detailed information about many pelvic health challenges at https://www.pelvicfunction.com

https://www.pelvicfloorfirst.org.au  for further reading about pelvic floor health internationally

https://www.ics.org for the latest international consensus of treatment for incontinence both surgical and non-surgical

https://www.pelvicpain.org.au for information on pelvic pain and management

https://mysexualhealth.co.za for service providers and free seminars about sexual health, well-being and products

https://rockmymenopause.com for menopause information

For expecting mommies:
Book: Why did no one tell me? How to protect, heal and nurture your body through motherhood
Emma Brockwell 2021. Penquin Random House, Edinburgh, UK. This easy to read book is written by a British Women’s health physiotherapist and covers the before and after of pregnancy in a practical way.

Post-natal depression scale determinator:

 https://perinatology.com/calculators/Edinburgh%20Depression%20Scale.htm To self-test and contact a healthcare provider if your baby blues are perhaps more than you can handle yourself  – 10% of women’ in the UK suffer from post-natal depression – we need to be more aware that this is real and can happen.

I used the following main articles to compile this website:

Wallace,S.,  Miller, L. et al. 2019. Pelvic floor physical therapy in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in women. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Dec;31(6): 485-493

Yuko TAKEDA. 2010. Understanding the Life Stages of Women to Enhance Your Practice JMAJ 53(5): 273–278

Sung Tae Cho,  Khae Hawn Kim. 2021. Pelvic floor muscle exercise and training for coping with urinary incontinence. Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation. 17 (6): 379-387

Bꬾ, K. 2020. Physiotherapy management of urinary incontinence in females. Journal of physiotherapy. 66: 147-154