Fit For Life Physio, Rolleston (2025)

05/10/2025

When your cat decides they want to join in the rainy weekend Pilates 🐾💪

18/09/2025

💧🍉Elevate Your Hydration with Electrolytes

Daeli Hydration offer a premium sugar-free electrolyte powder crafted right here in New Zealand, using pure NZ sea salt for that natural, invigorating lift.

Packed with 800 mg sodium, 200 mg potassium, and 100 mg magnesium per sachet, Daeli delivers 2–4× the electrolytes of standard sports drinks—without sugar, dyes, or nasties.

Have a read through these slides to find out what electrolytes do, who would benefit from taking electrolytes, and the electrolytes in Daeli.

Who Will Love Daeli:
🍋 Athletes & active movers hitting the gym, trails, or dance floor—stay hydrated, energized, and cramp-free.
🍋 Busy professionals and students in search of clarity and steady focus.
🍋 Hot-weather go-getters or “salty sweaters” who lose more fluids—and those midday slumps from dehydration.
🍋 Wellness-conscious individuals seeking sugar-free, vegan, keto/paleo-friendly hydration without compromise.

Use FITFORLIFE15 for 15% off!🍍🥭

16/09/2025

🤸‍♂️Hypermobility & The Pelvic floor🌸

If you’re hypermobile, your joints aren’t the only things with extra stretch—your pelvic floor can be affected too.

🔹 Connective tissue in hypermobility can be more elastic, which may reduce passive support for the bladder, bowel, and pelvic organs.

🔹 This can make some people more prone to pelvic floor symptoms like leaking, heaviness, or pelvic organ prolapse—especially during high-impact activities or after pregnancy.

What can help?
✔️ Strength training for the pelvic floor and surrounding core muscles
✔️ Learning to coordinate breath and pressure management in movement
✔️ Avoiding “hanging” into your flexibility—move with control
✔️ Seeking guidance from a pelvic health physio who understands hypermobility

Stronger doesn’t mean stiffer—it means more support, more confidence, and better performance.

09/09/2025

🤸‍♀️Hypermobility & Injury Risk

Hypermobility is the ability for a person’s joints to move more than normal. This can be diagnosed Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) or Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD). Note that hypermobility can also affects blood vessels, skin, internal organs, and the gastrointestinal tract, in addition to ligaments, tendons and joint capsules.

Although it may seem like a superpower, it can come with challenges and increased injury risk. Joints that move beyond the normal range can place extra demand on surrounding muscles and connective tissues to control movement.

This can increase the risk of injuries like ligament sprains, muscle strains, joint pain, and even pelvic floor dysfunction.

🤔How is hypermobility diagnosed?
Alongside a full medical history, the Beighton Score is an easy scoring system can indicate Hypermobility of soft tissues, though it alone cannot diagnose you.
Give yourself a point for each of the following, one point per side:
i) Can your little finger bend back beyond 90 degrees
ii) Can your thumb bend back to touch the forearm?
iii) Can your elbow bend backwards beyond a straight line?
iv) Can your knee bend backwards beyond a straight line?
v) Can you touch the ground with your knees straight?
If you have more than 4 points, this may indicate joint hypermobility.

What helps?
✔️ Focus on strength training, especially around major joints
✔️ Improve form with prioritise slow & controlled movement
✔️ Work on balance and proprioception
✔️ Get guidance from a physio or PT who understands hypermobility

🧠 Know your body, train smart, and don’t ignore pain—it’s not “just because you're flexible.”

02/09/2025

ACC Sensitive Claims

Did you know? ACC’s Sensitive Claims Service offers fully funded support, treatment, and assessment for individuals in Aotearoa who’ve experienced sexual abuse or assault and sustained a resulting mental injury.

Here’s how it works:

🌻 Accessible to all: Whether you’re a New Zealand resident or visitor, and regardless of when the abuse occurred—even if a long time ago—ACC may still be able to help.

🌻 Get help right away: You can access up to 14 hours of therapy plus 30 hours of additional support (like help for family/whānau), at no cost, before ACC decides on your claim.

🌻 Tailored to your needs: Support includes counselling, psychological services, group therapy, and other therapy such a pelvic health physiotherapy—plus additional wraparound services as needed.

If you or someone you know needs support, you are not alone—and help is available, see the link below👇

https://www.acc.co.nz/for-providers/provider-contracts-and-services/sensitive-claims-service

28/08/2025

👟🏃‍♀️ 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.

Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

The pelvic floor controls pressure, supports your pelvic organs, maintains continence.
And yet… it’s often overlooked until it’s causing symptoms.

This month we dived into each of these facts to help you recognise, support, and protect your pelvic floor in sport and life. Have a read through these slides, or you can go back and see the full posts on our page.

🧠 Want to learn more or book a pelvic health check? DM us!

26/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #10

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

10) TRUTH: The overall management plan for PFD should be tailored to the athlete’s specific needs within a multidisciplinary team.

🔹 Best practice involves a multidisciplinary approach: pelvic health physios, sports medicine doctors, coaches, dietitians, and mental health providers.
🔹 Screening and treatment should account for factors like training load, hormonal status, psychological wellbeing, and return-to-sport demands.
🔹 No one-size-fits-all—strategies must be adapted to the athlete’s physical, psychological, and performance needs.

📖 References:
•Bo, K., & Nygaard, I. (2020). Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Female Athletes: A Systematic Review. Br J Sports Med, 54(23), 1399–1404. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102633
•Frawley, H., et al. (2018). Physiotherapy and multidisciplinary management of pelvic floor dysfunction in sport. Int Urogynecol J, 29(10), 1409–1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-018-3639-x

24/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #9

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

9) TRUTH: Special consideration is required during an athletes perinatal period.
🔹 1 in 3 postpartum people report urinary incontinence, and up to 45% still have symptoms at 12 months if not addressed.
📖 Reference: Mørkved, S., & Bø, K. (2014). Postpartum pelvic floor muscle training and urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol, 123(2 Pt 1), 310–318. https://doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000000092

21/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #8

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

8) TRUTH: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) screening should be common practice. Use PFD-SENTINEL screening tool for females.

🔹 The PFD-SENTINEL is a validated tool designed to screen for symptoms early in female athletes, reducing delayed care.

📖 Reference: Schellhase, C. G., et al. (2023). Development and validation of the PFD-SENTINEL: a screening tool for pelvic floor dysfunction in female athletes. BJSM, 57(2), 102–108. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106372

19/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #7

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

7) TRUTH: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) can have a negative impact on an athlete’s psychological well-being. Stats on faecal incontinence and running, or mental health and PFD

🔹 Up to 10% of runners experience f***l incontinence, which is linked to anxiety, embarrassment, and social withdrawal.

🔹 The prevalence of anxiety in people with PFD can be up to 70%

📖 Reference: Bharucha, A. E., et al. (2005). F***l incontinence in runners. Am J Gastroenterol, 100(4), 903–907. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.40781.x
📖 Reference: Peinado Molina, R. A et al (2024). Prevalence of depression and anxiety in women with pelvic floor dysfunctions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 167(2), 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15719

17/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #6

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport

6) TRUTH: The athlete’s pelvic floor should be trained just like other muscle groups.

🔹 Pelvic floor training should include strength, endurance, power, coordination, and relaxation—especially for high-load demands in sport.

📖 Reference: Bo, K., & Frawley, H. (2021). Exercise and the Pelvic Floor. In: Evidence-Based Physical Therapy for the Pelvic Floor (2nd ed.). Elsevier.

14/08/2025

👟 10 Pelvic Floor Truths Every Athlete Should Know #5

The pelvic floor among athletes is undervalued, underreported, and undertreated.
Whether you're a weekend warrior or Olympian —your pelvic floor affects and is affected by sport.

5) TRUTH: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) is prevalent among adolescent athletes.

🔹 One study found urinary leakage in 67% of young female trampolinists; rates are higher than in non-athlete peers.

📖 Reference: Eliasson, K., Larsson, T., & Mattsson, E. (2002). Prevalence of urinary incontinence in adolescent female athletes and dancers. Scand J Med Sci Sports, 12(5), 284–288. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0838.2002.10515.x

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