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Helen Lewis (she/her)APA Continence and Pelvic Floor PhysiotherapistQualifications
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Helen has a passion for helping women, enabling them to maximise their activity participation through empowering them to better understand their bodies.
Having worked on a maternity ward for over 15 years, Helen treats a variety of musculoskeletal conditions associated with pregnancy including D.R.A.M (abdominal muscle separation), pelvic girdle and lower back pain, and mastitis. She also has experience in conditions of pelvic floor including muscle dysfunction, bladder and bowel incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, vulvodynia and vaginismus.
Helen’s hospital work also included helping post-natal women optimise recovery from childbirth and gynaecological surgery and ease pregnancy related ante-natal pains. It was this work that inspired Helen to complete her Masters in Physiotherapy (Continence and Pelvic Floor) in 2009. In 2011, she presented a workshop for physiotherapists on Women’s specific conditions for the Bangladesh Physiotherapy Association. Since 2015 she has regularly worked as a tutor at La Trobe University Physiotherapy School for Gender Specific Studies.
When she is not working, Helen enjoys cuddles with her 2 young sons, expressing her creativity through sewing, knitting and crochet, and attempting to grow and preserve foods.
- Pelvic organ prolapse, prevention and improvement of symptoms
- Pain with sex, unable to use tampons, vaginismus and other pelvic pain related conditions
- Pregnancy related discomfort, post natal recovery and empowering women to minimise complications with pregnancy and delivery.
Helen has a passion for helping women, enabling them to maximise their activity participation through empowering them to better understand their bodies.
Having worked on a maternity ward for over 15 years, Helen treats a variety of musculoskeletal conditions associated with pregnancy including D.R.A.M (abdominal muscle separation), pelvic girdle and lower back pain, and mastitis. She also has experience in conditions of pelvic floor including muscle dysfunction, bladder and bowel incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, vulvodynia and vaginismus.
Helen’s hospital work also included helping post-natal women optimise recovery from childbirth and gynaecological surgery and ease pregnancy related ante-natal pains. It was this work that inspired Helen to complete her Masters in Physiotherapy (Continence and Pelvic Floor) in 2009. In 2011, she presented a workshop for physiotherapists on Women’s specific conditions for the Bangladesh Physiotherapy Association. Since 2015 she has regularly worked as a tutor at La Trobe University Physiotherapy School for Gender Specific Studies.
When she is not working, Helen enjoys cuddles with her 2 young sons, expressing her creativity through sewing, knitting and crochet, and attempting to grow and preserve foods.