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The Healthy Peach Physio

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The Healthy Peach Physio

The Healthy Peach Physio is a women's specific physiotherapy clinic in Brisbane, founded by Marnie Poiner. For the Best Pelvic Physio in Grange call us today!

Marnie Poiner has worked as both a musculoskeletal and women's health physio since graduating in 2015. The Healthy Peach Physio is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist in Grange that offers a range of different services from Women's health physiotherapy, pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, bladder symptoms, bowel symptoms, pregnancy support, pre-natal support, musculoskeletal conditions, and more. We service all customers from Grange and welcome all customers from Wilston, Windsor, Lutwyche, Gordon Park, Stafford, Enoggera, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Red Hill, Ashgrove, Gaythorne, Newstead, Kedron, Stafford Heights, Everton Park, Mitchelton, Kalinga, Albion, Hamilton, Clayfield, Wavell Heights, Everton Hills, Northgate, Nundah, Hendra, Keperra, Arana Hills, Bardon, Fortitude Valley and more.

26/08/2025

Does menopause impact my s*xual health? 🍑
Yes, menopause can significantly affect your s*xual health—but support and solutions are available.

Lower oestrogen levels may lead to:
👉Vaginal dryness and thinning of the va**nal tissues, making s*x feel uncomfortable or even painful.
👉Reduced natural lubrication, which may affect desire and arousal.
👉Decreased libido caused by hormonal shifts or compounded by sleep problems, fatigue, or mood changes.

It’s important to know that these changes are common, and nothing to be ashamed of!

Vaginal moisturisers, lubricants, local oestrogen therapies, pelvic floor physiotherapy, and open, supportive conversations with your partner or health professional can all help restore comfort and confidence in your s*xual wellbeing.

24/08/2025

We're beyond delighted to share with our social community here that our senior physiotherapist, Claire, is pregnant! 🍑

We're wishing a heartfelt congratulations to Claire, as she expects the arrival of a new addition to the family. Claire will be starting maternity leave from the end of September.

22/08/2025

Pelvic floor physio isn’t just for women 🍑

Everyone has a pelvic floor — and regardless of your gender - it plays a huge role in bladder, bowel, s*xual health and sometimes pain too!

Here's some ways that a pelvic floor physio can support all genders 👇
🍑 Bladder conditions: leaking, urgency, difficulty emptying
🍑 Bowel: constipation, straining, leakage
🍑 Prolapse & support concerns (yes, men can experience re**al prolapse too)
🍑 Pelvic pain: chronic pain, pudendal neuralgia, post-surgery pain
🍑 Sexual function: including physical changes, s*xual pain/difficulty, intimacy pain
🍑 Pre/post surgery: prostate, hernia, re**al, or gender-affirming surgeries
🍑 Exercise & performance: strength, coordination, return to sport

You don’t need to put up with symptoms in silence — pelvic physio is here to support you. We’re passionate about acknowledging that men, women, and individuals of non-binary gender identities may experience pelvic floor dysfunction and require specialised care. Our clinic is here to support everyone — no matter your gender identity or s*xual orientation.

12/08/2025

What factors are associated with early menopause? 🍑

While most women reach menopause around age 50, some experience it earlier due to a range of biological and environmental factors. Menopause that occurs between the ages 40–45 is considered early menopause, and before age 40 is called premature menopause.

Several factors can influence the timing:

👉 Genetics: Family history plays a significant role. If your mother experienced early menopause, you may as well.

👉 Shorter menstrual cycles: Women with cycles shorter than 26 days may reach menopause sooner due to faster depletion of their egg reserve.

👉 Early menstruation: Beginning menstruation before age 12 may be linked to earlier menopause, as more ovulatory cycles occur across a lifetime.

👉 Smoking: To***co use is one of the strongest modifiable risk factors. It has anti-oestrogen effects and can accelerate ovarian ageing.

👉 Medical or surgical factors: Treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation, or surgeries like oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries), can trigger early or sudden menopause.

Knowing these factors can help women monitor changes earlier and consider supportive interventions if needed.

11/08/2025

We can't post about menopause without also posting about how much we LOVE L**E! 🙌 (And this is especially true for many of our patients post-menopause.)

As menopause progresses, one symptom many women experience is changes to the v***a, va**na, urethra, and bladder—causing the tissues to become thinner, drier, and less elastic. We’ve previously introduced the fancy term for this: Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM). At a practical level, this could mean that you could experience va**nal dryness, making s*x feel uncomfortable or even painful, or reduced natural lubrication.

Both of which, lubricants can help remedy! 🍑

We have a couple of different types of lubricants, including both water-based l***s, oil-based l***s and silicone-based l***s. All of these can help you with va**nal dryness, and adding lubrication to s*xual activities. Barrier lubricants (like silicone based ones) can also help protect your va**nal tissues, that might now be thinner.

Finding the right l**e for you, and high quality ones at that, is definitely something we - as pelvic physiotherapists - can help you with!

08/08/2025

Menopause isn’t just the end of your period - it’s a powerful hormonal shift that can touch nearly every system in your body.

Menopause occurs when a woman’s reproductive glands stop secreting oestrogen, leading to a variety of symptoms, which can differ from person to person. Here's a crash course on the common symptoms of menopause! 🍑

👉 Hot flushes and night sweats: Oestrogen helps regulate body temperature. As levels drop, the body’s ability to maintain a stable temperature is disrupted, causing hot flushes and red skin due to vasodilation.

👉 Mood changes: Oestrogen influences mood-regulating centres in the brain. Reduced oestrogen leads to lower production of serotonin and noradrenaline, contributing to mood changes like anxiety, irritability, and depression.

👉 Sleep disturbances: Oestrogen impacts the regulation of wakeful hormones and core body temperature. As levels decline, disrupted sleep patterns and discomfort from hot flushes can make it harder to sleep.

👉 Urinary changes: Menopause is linked to overactive bladder and urgency. This could be due to both a decline in oestrogen affecting nervous system excitability and weakened perineal tissue contributing to bladder control issues.

👉 Joint and muscle aches: Oestrogen loss affects connective tissue hydration and joint resilience, increasing the risk of joint pain, stiffness, and movement restrictions.

👉 Genitourinary syndrome of menopause: This term covers the physical changes in the v***a, va**na, and bladder. With oestrogen loss, these tissues become thinner, drier, and less elastic, leading to discomfort and fragility.

These are ALL symptoms that your pelvic physio and broader healthcare team can help support! Let's start with a chat, and we can work through which symptoms we can address to make your life feel peachier 🍑

07/08/2025

Expressions of Interest: Private Small-Group Pelvic Pain & Sexual Pain Programs 🍑

We're additionally now looking to offer a Saturday-afternoon (1:00 - 5:30pm) private offering of our pelvic pain & s*xual pain program, designed to help you understand your body and symptoms, and build you a toolkit to empower you to more independently and sustainably manage your pain.

This will be limited to a small group (maximum 6 people), with private health rebates available, and set to the same price as an initial appointment with our pelvic physiotherapy team.

This offering is ideal for those who perhaps don't meet the eligibility criteria for the Queensland Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain GP Clinic, or those who perhaps already have an effective healthcare team in place and want to exclusively access the pelvic physiotherapy component in a more accessible way.

If you're interested in participating, please send an expression of interest to us at info@thehealthypeachphysio.com.au. You might also like to forward this offering to someone you know that may benefit, even if they aren't a current patient.

06/08/2025

One of the biggest - but often overlooked - contributors to persistent pelvic pain is the stress response. Stress doesn’t just affect your mental health, but also significantly impacts your pelvic health!

Stress and pain are deeply connected through your body’s nervous and hormonal systems. When your stress response stays active for too long, your body shifts into a state of survival—tightening muscles, reducing digestion, altering breathing, and flooding your system with stress hormones like cortisol. For the pelvis, this often means increased muscle tension, heightened sensitivity to pain, and disrupted gut and reproductive function.

When pain becomes chronic—especially when diagnosis or treatment feels unclear—it can fuel more stress: creating a feedback loop of pain, anxiety, and fatigue. Over time, this can lead to nervous system hypersensitivity, where even normal sensations feel threatening or uncomfortable.

Understanding the stress-pain connection helps explain why treating pelvic pain isn’t just about the muscles—it’s about supporting the whole person. Breaking the cycle means calming the nervous system, completing the stress response, and giving your body a chance to reset. 🍑

05/08/2025

Our pelvic physio Tanja is back in the clinic! 🍑

We're excited to welcome our pelvic physio Tanja back to the clinic, following her maternity leave! Appointments are already open, so feel free to book yourself in if you'd like to have a chat. Tanja will be in clinic every Monday and Thursday, and from November, also Fridays.

Tanja’s special interests include:
🍑 Persistent pelvic pain & painful periods (incl. endometriosis and adenomyosis)
🍑 Sexual pain & dysfunction (incl. vaginismus)
🍑 Birth preparation - pelvic floor muscle assessment and optimisation for va**nal birth & c-section education
🍑 Bladder/bowel issues - leaking, urgency, pain, difficulty emptying
🍑 Pelvic organ prolapse and pessary fitting
🍑 Menopause support - dryness, pain, s*xual enjoyment, urinary leaking, pelvic floor function

If you see her around the clinic, be sure to say hey!

17/07/2025

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness Week 🍑

Birth is deeply personal, and every journey through birth is different. Some feel empowered, others overwhelmed — and many experience both. Birth Trauma Awareness Week is held each year to help people understand that birth can cause physical and/or emotional trauma — and to highlight the need for better care, support and understanding.

Birth trauma can include:
👉 Physical injuries (like perineal tears, pelvic floor dysfunction, prolapse)
👉 Emotional or psychological distress after a difficult or unexpected labour
👉 Feeling dismissed, unheard, or unsupported in the process

Some people come out of birth feeling strong and joyful. Some are changed in ways they didn’t expect. For many, birth trauma stays with us — in our thoughts, our bodies, our relationships, and in the stories we don’t always feel safe to tell. One powerful purpose of birth trauma awareness week is creating space for those stories, and changing the narrative on the things some have been told to “just get over.”

At The Healthy Peach Physio, we support people through all stages of the perinatal journey. We know that pelvic health physiotherapy, and a caring, connected healthcare team, can be part of that healing — but first, there needs to be space to speak, to feel, and to be believed.

We’ll be sharing more on a compassionate and educational blog format from our pelvic physio Emma next week, but for now - let’s build awareness of birth trauma and create space for real stories — the joyful, the complicated, and everything in between. ❤️

19/06/2025

Our Peaches went on tour this week! 🍑
What an incredible week at the *xualhealth annual conference in Brisbane. Such a privilege to be inspired by world experts in s*xual health, wellness and advocacy. We got some great clinical pearls this week and are feeling so inspired and proud to be in this field.
Thanks to the organisers for an excellent conference.

13/06/2025

Can constipation cause bladder urgency? 🍑

Yes! While we often find sudden urgency cases to be multifactorial in cause, constipation can definitely be a contributing factor in many patients.

When the re**um is full, it presses against the bladder, reducing its capacity to stretch. This added pressure can make you feel urgent even when there’s not much urine inside.

Managing bowel health is a key part of treating urgency in the clinic!

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220 Days Road
Grange, QLD
4051

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 4pm
Saturday	7am - 12pm

Website

https://thehealthypeachphysio.com.au/

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Welcome to The Healthy Peach Physio

If you’ve every asked yourself, “Is this normal”, and been too afraid to broach the topic with your friends or even your GP that you’ve been seeing for 30 years and don’t feel comfortable talking to about your lady bits! Then this is the place for you.

Do I need a Women’s health physio?

· Do you leak urine, wind or stool when you cough, sneeze or at any other time? It can be a small, moderate or large amount; consistently or just occasionally; or maybe just during exercise!

· Do you have to run to the toilet urgently or frequently because you feel you will not make it in time? Do you leak when rushing to the toilet?

· Do you have pain with your bladder filling or emptying?

· Do you have a feeling of heaviness or dragging in your pelvis, va**na or a**s?

· Does it feel like you have "something down there" like a lump when you are washing yourself?

· Do you have decreased sensation with in*******se?

· Do you have pain with in*******se, inserting tampons or undergoing a doctor's pelvic exam?

· Have you had a baby? (like, ever. Not just recently) Whether you’ve delivered va**nally or through caesarean having a pelvic floor check can be a great way to ensure that everything is healing well and if you have any issues (whether symptomatic or not!) they can be managed early before becoming an issue

· Have you had, or are you having, pelvic surgery and want to prevent further or recurrent issues?

If you answered yes (or even maybe!) to any of these questions, then YES! These are not conditions that you need to live with, and Women’s Health Physiotherapy is the right place for you!