The Physiotherapy Clinic

The Physiotherapy Clinic Our mission is to help as many people as possible by working together. We have clinics in Bondi Junction, Cammeray and Woolooware.

We are a blend of musculoskeletal physiotherapy, women's health, men's health and kids continence.

We’re so pleased to welcome Laura Zanatta to TPC!  Laura brings valuable experience working in rugby, alongside a strong...
05/05/2026

We’re so pleased to welcome Laura Zanatta to TPC! 
 
Laura brings valuable experience working in rugby, alongside a strong interest in women’s health and supporting women across all stages of life through treatment, exercise and pilates. She is passionate about helping her patients build strength, confidence, and resilience in their bodies and we are very excited to have her in our Randwick clinic. 
 
Fun fact about Laura? She’s a twin! She’s also the second Laura on our team, so things are about to get confusing (we’re working on a system).
 
You will find Laura at our Randwick clinic on Mondays and Wednesdays. To make an appointment, please contact the clinic on 9387 1011.

30/04/2026

Thoracic mobility and rib cage movement matter more than you think when it comes to your pelvic floor.

How well your upper back and torso flex, rotate, and expand plays a big role in how you manage pressure through your body, impacting your pelvic floor and even contributing to symptoms like incontinence and prolapse.

Here’s Maddy on working through a demo of an overhead reach - a simple but effective way to lengthen, decompress, and build strength overhead, without pushing pressure downwards.

Today we had the pleasure of catching up with Megan Hangan from Learn Latch Love. Megan is a wonderful Lactation Consult...
29/04/2026

Today we had the pleasure of catching up with Megan Hangan from Learn Latch Love.

Megan is a wonderful Lactation Consultant and Endorsed Midwife supporting women and families across Sydney’s North Shore and Northern Beaches through pregnancy, birth prep and feeding support. Meagan has a very special gift for helping women through those early postnatal weeks!

We love connecting with other women’s health professionals who share the same passion for supporting mums through every stage of motherhood, because we know it truly takes a village.

27/04/2026

A very fun morning at Channel Nine! Thanks to the crew at Today Extra for having us on to talk about the importance of strength training for postnatal women.

We love working alongside .brown and being part of the .mums + .australia community as they work to empower women to build their strength and their village.

Listen in as Maddy explains where women often go wrong with returning to exercise postpartum, and why having a women’s health physio on your team is key to making sure your exercise is targeted, specific and effective.

Some snaps from last night’s pelvic pain class with Laura! These classes focus on calming the nervous system, restoring ...
23/04/2026

Some snaps from last night’s pelvic pain class with Laura!

These classes focus on calming the nervous system, restoring quality movement, and gently building strength + mobility in a supportive space.

Perfect for anyone experiencing pain with their periods, or persistent back, hip or pelvic pain, helping you move with more ease and less tension.

Join us Wednesdays at 6pm with Laura, in clinic or online 🤍

22/04/2026

If you still have reservations about menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), here’s Meg breaking down more of the research to help put your mind at ease.

Beyond symptom management, MHT may support bone health, cardiovascular health and overall quality of life.

From our perspective as pelvic floor physio’s, it can also help preserve muscle strength with ageing, including important implications for pelvic floor strength, AND may assist with bladder and bowel symptoms.

Speak with your GP about whether MHT is right for you. The focus should be on individualised, evidence-based care, not outdated fears.

16/04/2026

If you’re a runner and you don’t have a women’s health physio in your corner, chances are you need one!

We can help with your bladder symptoms (leaking, urgency, having to stop to void), your bowel symptoms (bowel urgency or not being able to hold stool in), your prolapse symptoms (exercise and pessary management) and how running might be affecting your pelvic floor tightness (and subsequent pain with in*******se).

We can also help with all the usual running niggles like back pain, hip pain, SIJ pain and abdominal pain, BUT we look at it through a holistic lens, taking your pelvic health history into account, because this history often interlinks with what shows up in your body.

If you’re not sure if we can help or not, comment below or send us a DM 🤍

14/04/2026

We often get asked about “training to your cycle” and there’s a lot of social media noise about it, but if you’re worried you’re not doing it right, you don’t need to overthink it.

A 2026 narrative review (Natalucci et al.) found that menstrual cycle phases and hormonal contraceptives have only small, variable effects on performance, and that they aren’t very useful for day-to-day training decisions.

Your strength, muscle growth, and recovery stay fairly consistent across your cycle.

What does change is how you feel (fatigue, pain, sleep, bloating) which is what actually drives training tolerance.

Fuelling matters more than cycle phase. Under-eating (especially carbs) will impact performance and recovery far more than where you are in your cycle.

So instead of rigidly “syncing,” focus on consistency, adjust based on symptoms, and make sure you’re fuelling well, in an individualised context (as always).


Natalucci, V., La Torre, A., Spinello, G., Bonato, M., & Moro, T. (2026). Menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptives in female athletes: Should symptoms and nutrition matter more than cycle phase? A narrative review. Nutrients, 18(7), 1144. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu18071144

Mastitis (or inflammatory conditions of the lactating breast) is something we see a lot in clinic and we are passionate ...
09/04/2026

Mastitis (or inflammatory conditions of the lactating breast) is something we see a lot in clinic and we are passionate about treating mastitis EARLY, to help prevent escalation, because we know how debilitating it can be for women at an already overwhelming time. 
 
Mastitis symptoms are not just painful, they can impact feeding, your confidence, and your overall recovery + fatigue. Around 1 in 4 women will experience mastitis or breast inflammation in the first 6 months postpartum!
 
Women’s health physios can help reduce inflammation via the use of therapeutic ultrasound alongside gentle exercise techniques and education. 
 
Early intervention is key and because symptoms can worsen within 24–48 hours, we offer a weekend mastitis on-call service to help your symptoms ASAP.

Reward charts don’t fix bedwetting. Here’s what to try instead ~ Most bedwetting after the age of 6-7 happens because of...
08/04/2026

Reward charts don’t fix bedwetting. Here’s what to try instead ~
 
Most bedwetting after the age of 6-7 happens because of deep sleep, delayed night-time bladder signaling, constipation and/or bladder immaturity. It is not laziness, not defiance and certainly not poor parenting. 
 
Reward charts don’t tend to work as bedwetting happens during sleep, at a time where the child can’t “try harder” to stop it happening. When they don’t earn a sticker it might create shame, anxiety and self-blame. Anxiety can then make things worse. 
 
What helps more than stickers: 
- Manage constipation
- Ensure regular daytime toileting habits
- Ensure adequate daytime hydration
- Use of bedwetting alarms as appropriate and having supportive, shame-free conservations. 

The goal is nervous system and bladder development.
 
If bedwetting is ongoing or causing distress, a continence assessment with our physio team can help.

Clenching during the day, grinding at night?Headaches, neck pain and pelvic floor pain are also often part of the pictur...
02/04/2026

Clenching during the day, grinding at night?

Headaches, neck pain and pelvic floor pain are also often part of the picture in the people we see suffering from jaw pain.

The fix? Multifaceted. Probably involving some manual release to your jaw (both inside and outside the mouth), but more importantly, looking at your jaw in relation to your head, neck, shoulders and thorax, to then retrain your movement, your strength and your control. More importantly though, looking at these things in the context of your overall body and life situation.

If you’re lifting heavy, or if you’re leaking when you lift, you’ve probably been told to kegel (squeeze your pelvic flo...
26/03/2026

If you’re lifting heavy, or if you’re leaking when you lift, you’ve probably been told to kegel (squeeze your pelvic floor) before you lift.

But should you?
 
A 2026 study by Bjurulf et al. showed that during squatting and deadlifting, even when you pre-contract your pelvic floor, the pressure inside your abdomen is still higher.
 
So what does that mean?

Squeezing before you lift probably isn’t your best tool, particularly when loads increase.
 
Remember, your pelvic floor doesn’t work in isolation. It’s part of a pressure system that includes your diaphragm, abdominals, ribcage/thoracic spine, and these parts all come together to help you breathe and move.
 
This is why we don’t just assess your pelvic floor when you’re lifting heavy, we use Connect Therapy to assess your body as a whole. We look at: your breathing strategy (most importantly), the coordination and timing of BOTH your breath and your pelvic floor, your thoracic mobility and rib sliding, as well as progressively overloading your strength, WITH these effective breathing and movement patterns.
 
Remember, the goal isn’t to “out-squeeze” pressure, it’s to manage pressure well. If you’ve been told to just “switch it on” and you’re still leaking, feeling heaviness, or unsure how to lift, you need to look elsewhere and learn how to use your body under load, not just brace against it.  
 
*This was a preliminiary, exploratory study with only 11 participants BUT it resonates with what we see in clinic and how we approach leaking in our women who lift.
 
Bjurulf et al., 2026, International Urogynecology Journal

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