Vicky Keates BSc (Hons) PGCert MCSP
Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist
HPC Registration No PH74319
I am passionate about women’s health. I find it really frustrating that so many women put up with problems that specialist treatment could resolve. It seems to be such a taboo subject that often women are too embarrassed to talk openly about their problems, and so they remain unreported and untreated. It gives me immense satisfaction when clients report significant improvements, if not cure (see Client testimonials). I just wish more people knew about women’s health physiotherapy and how it works (see What is women’s health physio?).
I am a specialist women’s health physiotherapist (see About me) and I treat women who suffer from pregnancy-related musculoskeletal problems and women who have problems with their bladder, bowels or pelvic floor. These might be antenatal or postnatal problems associated with pregnancy and/or childbirth, or gynaecological problems such as incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain symptoms (see Conditions treated). I will also be starting to run antenatal classes in December: ‘Essential physiotherapy for pregnancy‘.
Women’s health physiotherapy can improve the quality of women’s lives by empowering them to take control of their problems. In fact research-based evidence and government health guidelines recommend supervised pelvic floor muscle training as a first-line course of action to treat urinary incontinence.
Don’t suffer in silence! If you have a women’s health problem, now’s the time to do something about it. Contact me for a free telephone consultation to discuss how women’s health physiotherapy might help, or arrange to see me at one of two clinics in Sheffield (see Contact & clinics).
