RESTOREyou

RESTOREyou is an online education & rehabilitation resource for pelvic health.

06/09/2023

Looking for any current or retired para athletes to speak to my friend .4233 for her super interesting research project with !

Please share if you know of anyone who might be interested.

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Thanks!

25/12/2022

At age 43 I’m becoming very aware that what I do now will impact my experience through menopause. The more I learn the better equipped I will be. Wise Power by & Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer lay out a framework for understanding, not a map or a recipe but an interesting discovery into death and rebirth during menopause 😱😬 but ultimately for calmness ☯️ and love ❤️ 💕

26/11/2022

Menarche should be acknowledged and celebrated. Women need to be informed
“about what to expect with menarche, menstruation management, and health-related impacts, as well as methods to reduce menses-related myths and stigmas” DeMario et al. 2020

https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2019.1610827

25/11/2022

Introducing Dr Hannah Gough, Clinical Psychologist

Dr Gough and I share a passion… support for women during life transitions: menarche, matrescence; menopause. We both see women struggling physically and emotionally and in some cases needlessly. A little knowledge and information can go a long way in ameliorating the challenges we experience through these transitions. We are on a mission to help …

23/11/2022

“If Menarche is when a girl becomes a ‘woman’ and Matrescence is when a woman becomes a mother, then Menopause is when a women becomes her SELF. Fully, authentically, unapologetically” Alicia Grandey Phd

22/11/2022

Starting the day with a postnatal Pilates exercise class!
As the instructor I come away feeling blissful 🤍- I hope my mum’s feel that way too 😊

The benefits of exercise in the postnatal / postpartum period are well documented:

- exercise helps strengthen and tone abdominal muscles.
- exercise boosts energy.
- exercise may help prevent postpartum depression.
- exercise promotes better sleep.
- exercise relieves stress.
- exercise can help you lose the extra weight that you may have gained during pregnancy.
- exercise makes you feel good 😊

But did you know that you are more likely to exercise if you exercise in a group rather than by yourself at home? Whilst there are limitations to what you can get out and do as a new mum if you can make it to a class for exercise it will do you wonders - you time - support - someone to help answer your questions!

13/11/2022

“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!” Rudyard Kipling

Remembrance Sunday 2022
Trinity Church
Jersey

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Timeline photos 26/11/2020

Hot off the Press – New Pregnancy Exercise Guidelines! Published 25/11/20

WHO 2020 - Physical activity during pregnancy will:

- Reduce your weight gain in pregnancy
- Reduce the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus
- Not increase blood pressure
- Less risk of a preterm birth

Pregnant and postpartum, women should be strength training!

However, there are some absolute contraindications. Do not exercise during pregnancy if you have:

- Severe cardiorespiratory disease
- Placenta previa
- Uncontrolled type 1 diabetes
- Intrauterine growth restriction
- Active pre-term labour
- Severe pre-eclampsia
- Cervical insufficiency

If you are not experiencing any of these during your pregnancy then you should be exercising!

Worried about exercising with back pain or pelvic girdle pain? Fear not!

Exercise appears to reduce the risk of low back pain in pregnant women, and therefore unsurprisingly sick leave because of lumbopelvic pain. https://doi/abs/10.1002/ejp.1096

More recently, published this year, exercises for pelvic pain in pregnancy have been shown to significantly reduce pain and functional disability! https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2020-0143

Timeline photos 18/11/2020

Key take homes:
“Supervised” pelvic floor muscle training
• ican prevent and reduce POP (PREVPROL).
• can reduce symptoms (ICI 2017)
• you need to continue for 16 weeks!
• Consider a pessary to help (NICE NG123) – the band aid effect is handy and not to be dismissed

Timeline photos 13/11/2020

What is Pelvic Health?

Pelvic health means exactly what it says, the health of your pelvic region. But what is the pelvic region? Why does the health of this region matter? And if its not ‘healthy’, what can we do to make it healthy?

The pelvic region, anatomically, refers to everything below the beltline and above the knee. Namely, the bladder, the bowel, reproductive organs in both males and females. However, the health of this region involves the entirety of the body, the mind and soul.

E.g. the ability for us to p*e is a physiological process: we drink fluid, the bladder fills, the stretch receptors alert us, we head to the toilet, the pelvic floor relaxes and the bladder contracts and we p*e. However, I’m sure we can all recall a time before an important interview, long journey, first date, where we needed to p*e what felt like a million times before we left the house! So, whilst it is easy to consider pelvic health necessary when there is a disease process or dysfunction, it is important realise that the health of this region is holistic.

I see pelvic health as being about homeostasis of not only the pelvic region but of the person, the balance of the yin and the yang not just the absence of disease or the presence of dysfunction.

Timeline photos 19/06/2020

Statistics are never wholly representative of the truth, especially when it comes to wetting yourself - 50% of women will not ask for help because they are too embarrassed.

Women can read about pelvic floor/ kegel exercises from leaflets and online, but 50% of women taught pelvic floor / kegels from a leaflet will not do it correctly.

Urinary incontinence may be common but is not normal and can be treated.

Please seek help and encourage your female friends to ask for help. They can see their GP, Nurse Practitioner or Specialist Physiotherapist for full individual assessment and correct evidence based treatments that work.

06/05/2020

Pregnancy Special Intro

06/05/2020

Welcome to Pregnancy Special

Timeline photos 13/04/2020

We give thanks at Easter for faith, family and future and this Easter we give extra thanks to our public services who day after day go above and beyond but at the moment are able to find the extra mile that is needed. With all our heart we thank you 🙏

Thank you for the lovely 🌈 that gave me strength to run harder and be stronger on my run today.

And from the PM,
“the personal courage, not just of the and , but of everyone, the cleaners, the cooks, the healthcare workers of every description. , , who kept coming to work, kept putting themselves in harm’s way, kept risking this deadly virus.
It is thanks to that courage, that devotion, that duty and that love that our NHS has been unbeatable.”
B.Johnson, Easter Sunday 2020

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Timeline photos 12/02/2020

Exercise in pregnancy has unbelievably amazing benefits for Mum & Baby. It improves cardiovascular health, reduced insomnia, reduces stress, anxiety and depression. It reduced incidence of gestational diabetes by 30% and has been shown to reduce risk of labour complications and musculoskeletal pain. No advice will fit all but as a general rule: carry on what you were doing as long as it’s safe and if you’re new to exercise just start gently and build up. Listen to your body and adapt the activity as needed, avoid contact sports but please do get moving! Get local advice from your , or

Timeline photos 06/02/2020

Here is a summary of some of our discussions at the Positively Postnatal programme. Every time we run this session we cover similar themes but there are always new questions and the conversation flows in different directions depending on what these mums specifically need- we all have different needs & challenges - we are all unique - we all want different outcomes - and all of this difference is what brings us together. Be compassionate today to any new mums around you - they may look amazing on the outside but may be needing some compassion, both from others and from themselves.

Timeline photos 05/02/2020

Great afternoon at World Cancer Day & the atmosphere was warm and friendly and a really nice opportunity to seek the amazing services on offer in . The Macmillan Oasis is open weekdays 10-4pm. There is always a welcoming friendly face, a lovely range of Pukka herbal teas and of course counselling and information if you want it, but otherwise just simply a tranquil environment to be, relax and reflect. Don’t ever be afraid to drop in- it’s for everyone.

Timeline photos 02/02/2020

Macmillan Jersey, Healthhaus and Live Life Fitness are hosting an event supporting World Cancer Day on 4th Feb. This is a free event supported by local healthcare professionals and cancer charities and will provide information, taster sessions and Q&A sessions. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-cancer-awareness-day-tickets-90475106479?aff=ebdssbeac or just come along on the day.

Timeline photos 01/02/2020

My flyers are already for . Rehabilitation both before and after prostate cancer surgery (radical prostatectomy) is essential for a good recovery and for confident progress to the great classes offered by which Jersey are so lucky to have. Come and find me at the event if you have questions regarding post prostate cancer surgery or radiotherapy symptoms of urinary incontinence; erectile dysfunction; bowel emptying difficulties or incontinence and I would love to be able to help or point you in the right direction. See you there!

21/11/2019

Welcome to RESTOREyou

I hope we can help you not only recover from surgery or pelvic floor issues but be inspired to live a happy, healthy life!😃

21/11/2019

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