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PhysioPod Co.

PhysioPod Co. is a Women’s Health Physiotherapy and Podiatry practice in Newtown, Geelong.

15/07/2025

✨ This is Birth ✨

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness Week - an initiative held yearly to help people understand that birth can cause physical and/or emotional trauma, as well as to highlight the need for better care, support and understanding.

What 3 words describe your birth or a birth you’ve experienced?

This year’s theme is “This is Birth” - creating space for people to share their story in all their truth, difference and depth.

There is no right way to birth. There is no right way to feel.

Everyone’s experience is unique and different. For some, birth is a joyful and empowering experience. For others, it may result in birth trauma that stays with them ; in their thoughts, their bodies and their relationships.

While birth and recovery can not be 100% controlled or predicable, there are strategies that can be implemented to help reduce the rate of birth trauma:
💫 Education - what happens in birth? What are my options for pain relief? What interventions may be recommended? What occurs in postpartum?
💫 Testing - what are my risk factors for birth injury? What are my baseline measures during pregnancy? What about baby’s measurements and are they related to my outcomes?
💫 Follow up - women attend 7-10 antenatal appointments while pregnant but this reduces to 1-2 in the postnatal period. Women deserve regular follow up post birth, especially if they have experienced what they feel is a traumatic birth.

We want mums-to-be to feel empowered going into birth, not scared. We want those who have experienced birth trauma to know that you can heal, you can get your redemption story. Because every birth matters. We’re here for you 🙏🏻🥰

10/07/2025

🤨 DID YOU KNOW? 🤔

Menopause is only one day! Yes, you read that right.

Menopause is when a woman or someone assigned female at birth has not had a menstrual period for 12 consecutive months. Menopause is the day that this 12 months of period cessation occurs and is on average at age 51. If you get to 11 months without a period but then it returns, your 12 month counter restarts 🫩

Once you’ve got to menopause, everything after that is considered “Post Menopausal”. The time before Menopause is called Peri Menopause and can occur for up to 10 years!

Symptoms of Peri Menopause can include:
💥 Hot flushes
💥 Night sweats
💥 Brain fog 😶‍🌫️
💥 Mood swings
💥 Vaginal dryness
💥 Painful s*x
💥 Bladder urgency
💥 Joint pain
💥 Sleep disturbances
💥 Fatigue
💥 Weight changes
💥 Headaches or migraines

Sounds fun right?! 😳 For some it is not fun in the slightest…For others, they may not experience many symptoms, so the above is just a guide.

The good news is there are some amazing LOCAL people available to help you transition through Peri and into Menopause in a dignified and supportive way. We’ve tagged some of the legends we are so fortunate to work alongside! 💕🥰

23/06/2025

📚SCHOOL SHOE SALE📚

All Skobi school shoes are now ON SALE for $40!

These Podiatry-designed shoes are normally $149, so you’re saving over $100 on a quality, supportive shoe for your child 👌🏻

Various sizes available in the Barty, Holt, Howard and Page models - while stocks last.

16/06/2025

💧WORLD CONTINENCE WEEK💧

Today marks the start of World Continence Week which runs from June 16th - 22nd

Let’s shine a light on incontinence 🔦✨

Did you know incontinence affects 1 in 4 Australians? It can affect women, men, children and even athletes.

Here are some interesting facts and stats about incontinence:
💥36.1% of elite female athletes experience urinary incontinence
💥95.5% of female athletes with urinary incontinence have never discussed it with a health professional
💥Incontinence is a barrier to exercise for women, resulting in avoiding exercise or modifying their behaviours around exercise (eg. Not drinking water, urinating before exercise)
💥Performing perineal massage while pregnant (from 34 weeks) can reduce your risk of f***l incontinence post birth by 70%

If you or someone you know is experiencing incontinence, we are here to help 🙏🏻

Contact us on 5269 9635 or head to our website www.physiopod.co to book an appointment today ✨

12/06/2025

✨ MEET THE TEAM - CHLOE ✨

Have you met Physio Chloe yet?

Chloe works from our Newtown clinic every Wednesday and Thursday. She also runs our Tuesday and Thursday evening Pilates classes at our sister studio 😍

Chloe graduated as a Physiotherapist in 2015 and has a special interest in Women’s/Pelvic Health and the pre/postnatal period.

Along with her Physiotherapy qualifications, Chloe has completed further training to increase her knowledge in pregnancy, the postnatal period and pelvic floor related dysfunction. In addition to this, Chloe has pursued further training in Clinical Pilates and sees this as a highly valuable skill set when working with women.

Chloe is passionate about empowering and supporting all women to achieve optimal health and wellness throughout the lifespan.

Outside of work Chloe enjoys cooking, going to the beach and spending time with her gorgeous daughter - Matilda 🌸

Give us a call to book in with Chloe or head to our website to easily book online!
📞 5269 9635
🌏 www.physiopod.co/book-online/
📧 hello@physiopod.co

06/06/2025

👑 We will be CLOSED on Monday 9th June for the King’s Birthday public holiday 👑

It’s going to be a cold weekend 🥶 (it’s currently 12 degrees but feels like 5!! 😳). So make sure you rug up and settle in with a good book and hot chocolate ☕️

See you from 8am Tuesday 10th June 👋🏻✨

26/05/2025

🤰Healthy You. Healthy Baby.🤰

Did you know that have a new podcast called “Healthy You. Healthy Baby”?

It’s a podcast about keeping active and well during pregnancy and beyond 🤰👶🍼

They speak with Barwon Health experts (including Pelvic Physio Nat from ☺️) about a range of topics: What activity is safe during pregnancy? How to return to activity after birth? When and how to seek support? How to look after your mental wellbeing when transitioning into parenthood?

The podcast aims to build knowledge and confidence to empower birthing parents, families, and carers to keep physically active during this life stage, and promotes the wellbeing benefits of active living.

Our wonderful Physio Alice is also part of the Barwon Health team and works there once per week in the Women’s and Pelvic Health outpatients 💕

16/05/2025

💩Do you get a good, regular and reliable urge to use your bowels?💩

Ideally, this would be felt in the back passage and not as a pain in the tummy! This urge is often more likely in the morning. When this urge is felt, it is the perfect time to go to the toilet as it means that your body is ready 👍🏻

Often with a history of constipation, we can lose this urge. This can in turn lead to further constipation. It is a vicious cycle 😫

So what can you do about it? 🤷‍♀️

Establishing a consistent and reliable morning routine is a great place to start. You could try the following:

1️⃣ A warm drink upon waking, to kick start the digestive system
2️⃣ Movement in the morning to stimulate bowel motility
3️⃣ Eat breakfast! It doesn’t have to be much but chewing on something can again stimulate bowel movement
4️⃣ Pay close attention to your body ~ 30-60 minutes after waking - this is when it’s most common to feel an urge to open your bowels
5️⃣ Empty on first urge to reduce the need to strain. Our bowels function quite differently to our bladder - if we don’t go on first urge with our bowels, we may not get the urge again for that day (whereas our bladder will tell us over and over again that we need to go!)

Where possible, factor in time in your morning for the above. Racing out the door to a job where you feel embarrassed to and/or have no time to poo won’t do your bowel habits any favours!

Practice this routine over and over and over again. The bowels love routine!

If you struggle with constipation, you may benefit from individualised assessment and management. A Pelvic Health Physiotherapist can help - contact us today to learn more!

📍95 Nicholas Street, Newtown 3220
📞03 5269 9635
📧 hello@physiopod.co
🌏 www.physiopod.co

10/05/2025

🌸 HAPPY MOTHERS DAY 🌸

Wishing all of the mums in our community a Happy Mother’s Day 💫

To the amazing mums-to-be that we see in the clinic each week, to the ones without mums, to the first-time mums navigating the craziness of newborn life, to the ones with strained mother relationships, to the ones who never knew their mum, to the ones longing to be a mum and see a positive pregnancy test, to the ones who’ve lost a child…we see you, we are you, we’ll always be here for you 💕

24/04/2025

🌹ANZAC DAY🌹

We will be CLOSED at all our locations (Newtown, Berth, Bannockburn and Manifold Heights) for ANZAC Day tomorrow, 25th April

17/04/2025

🐰 EASTER HOURS 🐰

We will be closed over the Easter long weekend (Friday to Monday), reopening on Tuesday 22nd April ✨

We hope you and your families have a lovely Easter together 🐣

15/04/2025

✨Better late than never…the Barbie and Ken of PhysioPod Co. aka Lauren and Luke 😅

If only we had these action figures when growing up…

The little girl who could see you can go to University, have a fulfilling career and travel the world doing so, attend an Olympic Games as the youngest Physio ever taken by an Australian team, own 4 businesses, work in an area of Physio that’s so beneficial/life changing/needed all while becoming a mum!

And the little boy who could see you can combine your love of sport and health into a career, that you can live and work overseas in this career, that you can build a business with your wife and become a dad, that you can work in a female dominated team and be respectful of women.

Maybe it will be different for this next generation. Maybe their toys will inspire change and reduce stereotypes for both girls and boys 🤞🏻🥰

Address

Newtown, VIC

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

+61352699635

Website

http://www.physiopod.co/

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Physiotherapy & Podiatry collaborating together

Dr Lauren Earles Physiotherapist and Luke Bertram Podiatrist discovered that there is a better way for the two professions to work together. Instead seeing patients for their pain and injury separately they decided to bring everyone together.

Having two disciplines with similar but different skills and knowledge and bringing them together in the one consultation, the Collective Body Consult™️ was born. This ensures a thorough assessment and management plan, leaving no stone unturned. Not to mention saving time and money.