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Lulu Becker is a specialist Women's Health and Paediatric Physiotherapist based in La Lucia, Durban, Specialist Women's Health Physiotherapist.

08/04/2025

Hi ladies, my case load is currently full and I don’t like having a long waiting list. I am also starting my s*x counselling course in a few weeks, so for now, I can only see new fertility ladies.

If I have treated you before, I would love to see you as a follow up appointment.

Thankfully we have some wonderful Physios who have been on our courses in the past few years and I can happily refer you on to them 🤩

I realised last week that it’s been 10 years this year since I started helping ladies on their fertility journeys. It’s such a joy and privilege to do this work. I have had 5 ladies in the last week ask me why there aren’t more Physios offering assistance to ladies struggling with fertility.

I think I am finally ready to create a course to help other Physios who are interested in this wonderful field of Physiotherapy.

I hope to offer this in the second half of this year.
(You will need to have attended our foundations or advanced course to join me for this).

Thank you so much for all your ongoing support of my practice and courses.

I am so grateful,
Lulu x

23/03/2025

And it’s live!

I have a new webinar available on my website. It’s all about how the Jaw and Pelvic floor (and in fact the feet and the tongue) are connected and how they can impact on each other.

It’s common to have pain and discomfort at a few points on this deep frontal line of fascia and I find that the best way to impact on this fascial line is through working on the diapraghm.

Join me see how I massage the diapraghm and abdominal wall and how you can release your own diapraghm at home.

For those of who you have signed up already, I have emailed you a bonus Body scan and Pelvic Bowl meditation.

*I will send this bonus recording to anyone else who signs up before the end of Wednesday 26th March 🤩*

You don’t need to be a Physio or Healthcare provider to sign up to it, it’s available to anyone who is interested in this topic. But if you are registered with the HPCSA, you can receive 2 CPD points for completing the quiz at the end of the videos 😊

You can sign up via my website, www.luluphysio.com, webinars or click the link in my bio!

17/03/2025

Stepping out of my comfort zone.

I’ve talked more about low libido in my practice than I’ve talked about anything else in the past year.

People seem to be feeling like and having inter course less than ever before.

I feel like us being more swept up in our busy minds and less present in our bodies in this frazzled world of ours is impacting on our intimacy.

I say to the ladies I treat “foreplay for women is not the few minutes before the act. It’s what has happened in the 2 weeks before.”

Conversation and connection. It’s quality time together and being present and listening to each other.

And so I have decided to put myself completely out of my comfort zone and do a s-x counselling course that starts in May. I’ve convinced my friend and colleague Kim to join me for it and I am equally fascinated and a little anxious about what is to come.

I don’t plan to offer it as a stand alone service, but will rather weave it into my existing work with ladies who are battling with pelvic and s-xual pain ❤️

I paid today. So no turning back now.

12/03/2025

⭐️When friendship changes from a group sport to an individual one⭐️

I am currently listening to Mel Robbins’ book, Let Them. I love her “Let Them” and then “Let Me” approach to when we are triggered by something. And how addressing and reflecting on our own inner response to something can be so powerful ❤️ it’s the premise that underlies mindfulness too.

Yesterday I was listening to her chapter on friendships and I found it fascinating. She talks about how as you get to your 20’s (for me it was actually my 30’s), friendship becomes more of an individual sport than a group sport.

She discussed how friendship is based on:

⭐️Proximity (how often you see each other)
⏰ Timing (are you at the same stage of life)
🌺 Energy (do you gel / get on with the other person)

When you are at school/university and living with your friends in London, you get all these things. For most people, the “great scattering” she talks about happens after University, where the people you’ve been close to move all around the country / world. For me, I still had the group sport version of friendship in London. My workplace at The Portland offered another amazing group of Physios at the stage of life as me.

Group sports friendships are SO much easier. You know where you belong, you are automatically included & invited.

Getting older and navigating individual sport friendships has been tough for me. I’ve realised that I love a group. I feel safe and like I know my place in a group. While my friends from my groups at boarding school, university & London now live all over the world, I wish they could all live nearer to me ❤️ There is nothing like that easy soul filling familiarity of the group reconnecting again. I felt this at my boarding school reunion and each time I see my London girls in the picture above.

I see now that I seem to continue to try and recreate group friendships to this day. Some, more successfully than others. Currently, I regularly see my book club group, my Thursday yoga ladies, my work ladies and my garage gym girls.

Hearing Mel’s explanation of how friendships change as we get older has been helpful for me. I wanted to share it here in case it helps you too ❤️

09/03/2025

And then it was too late.

She had focussed all her time and effort on everyone else’s needs. And in the midst of it, neglected to take care of her own physical body. The only body she had for her heart and brain to reside in.

The heart and brain that wanted to lift her grandkids and to be able to put her suitcase in an overhead locker on the plane while travelling to exciting destinations when she retired.

Her heart and brain cared deeply about human connection and being absorbed in the natural beauty around her. But while her soul longed to do these things, her physical body just didn’t have the capability to do so.

I received a beautiful message today from a lady saying she is now lifting weights after I shared how my exercise goals are now centred around what I am doing for my 70 year self.

Her message made my day.

We only have this one physical body and it’s so incredibly easy to put everyone else’s needs ahead of ours in the short term and not prioritise what we are eating and how we are exercising week to week.

When really it’s to the detriment of our loved ones in the long term 😢

It’s never too late to start.

What are you doing this week that your future self will be grateful for? ❤️

07/03/2025

This has been on my heart to share for while now. For all the incredibly courageous women currently on journey to conceive. What a gift it is to get to walk alongside these ladies in my work ❤️

05/03/2025

This sentence s t o p p e d me in my tracks today. I immediately wrote it down and I’ve been reflecting on it since.

People can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

I am drawn to people who have spent time and effort reflecting on themselves.

People who try to notice their own patterns and understand that we can only really control our own selves, and no one else around us.

We can draw awareness to how others trigger us, and try to explore why it was horrible for us. Remembering the trigger is just the trigger, the gun is usually loaded from the past. By noticing our patterns, we can be more compassionate towards ourselves and respond rather than reacting to situations.

I am fascinated by the concept of “The Wounded Healer”, coined by psychologist Carl Jung. The term refers to individuals (health care practitioners) who, through their struggles and vulnerabilities, develop a profound understanding and empathy for the pain of others (their patients).

I feel like the idea of The Wounded Healer and knowing I’ve met myself many times down in the bottom of my heart/soul through many years of self reflection, helps me to practice Physio in the way I do.

I learned the term “Psychologically informed Physio” at the SASP Physio conference last year, and I realised, that this is what I practice.

I’ve so often found myself thinking “but he/she seems really nice, why can’t I connect with them?” And I think it’s because of this 💙

(If you are a Physio who would like to practice meeting yourself more deeply in order to help your patients meet themselves, you can join me on the 18 March. Holding Space for the Therapist with the EC group. On SASP website, e commerce to sign up)

19/02/2025

This concept of the Exhaustion Funnel has become such a powerful way for me to check in with my own well being.

I love that my daughter has awareness around it too and I hope she is able to notice any over work-ing and potential burn out as she gets older with more ease.

Where are you on the funnel?

https://luluphysio.com/the-exhaustion-funnel/

12/02/2025

“Lulu I see your Instagram posts and all the things that you are doing and I just don’t know how you get so much done. And you read so many books.”

Yesterday was the third time that someone has said to this to me in the past 10 days, so I just wanted to share on here what I replied to her.

Yes I do have a lot going on. BUT, I also have a lot of help in my life. And I’m good at asking for it. I have a full time live in housekeeper who is incredible and takes care of all our household needs and cooks meals from scratch for us every night during the week too.

In this season of my life, cooking after a long day of patients and driving kids around isn’t in my capacity.

I also have the most wonderful Granny au pair/personal assistant who helps me two afternoons a week with the girls lifts and extra murals, homework, chores and she likes to bake and cook for us too.

My husband does the majority of the school drop offs and I have friends who I can also call on to help with any other lifts that I can’t manage.

On a Wednesday and Friday at 5:30am I work out in my garage with 3 friends, which makes it easy for me as it’s at home, and they keep me accountable by joining me.

On a Thursday, I go to my friend Jess’ house for yoga on the way to work & then I try and fit in another run in the week and a long run with my husband on the weekend.

Now that I’m teaching more courses, I’m trying to only see clients 3 days a week, which allows me to catch up on life admin on the other days and do course admin and prep.

I’m needing these days even more now as I’ve recently taken over as chair at the KZN branch of South African Society of Physiotherapy, and I’m class Mum for Isla’s class.

In May, I’m going to start studying again too.

I have learnt, that just because I can, I don’t HAVE to do more in my days. It’s an ongoing balancing act, but at the moment it’s feeling manageable.

So if you are feeling like I have some magical ability to get lots done, I promise you I don’t. I have a lot of help and I think I may be checkers 60 and Woolies dashs’ best customer!

I do also have days where I feel totally overwhelmed. And I think that is pretty normal too.

❤️

05/02/2025

https://luluphysio.com/bed-wetting-tips-from-a-pelvic-physio/

29/01/2025

It’s ok to grieve and let go of a friendship that is no longer serving or nourishing you.

If you are always putting in all the effort or having to bring anything more than just yourself to a friendship, then perhaps the most compassionate thing is to let it go.

Grieving the change in the relationship you had with them is totally normal and can be heartbreaking💔.

Can you seek out the people who encourage you to show up just as you are? The ones who don’t let you down at the last minute or ask unreasonable “favours” of you. Things that you know you wouldn’t ask in return?

This came up in our mindfulness workshop on Sunday and I’ve treated a number of ladies this week who are grappling with trying to hang on to friendships that they know deep down aren’t being returned in full.

It’s ok to let go. To grieve and cherish all you had together in the past if it’s no longer the most compassionate thing for you to be investing in the friendship in this season of your life 💙

Sometimes when we are mourning the end of a friendship, we decide we aren’t ever going to open ourselves up again. That it’s just not worth it and we are better off on our own.

When really, it is. Essential even. Very often the person who could benefit from your care and friendship is already in front of you. They pop up in unexpected places and are friendly and welcoming and make you smile in your brief encounters at school drop off or the gym or in the office. Perhaps you could try and reach out a little to them 💙

Sending love if you are currently letting go 💔

14/01/2025

Coccyx Pain can be incredibly frustrating and debilitating 😭

These are the tips I give the ladies I treat.

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Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapy

We moved back to Durban in December 2017 after 11 years in London and in May I opened my own Physio practice working from home 😊 It is so wonderful to be based at home and close to my 2 little girls. Also just AMAZING to be back in SA! In the UK I specialised in women’s health Physio, and I’m also a yoga teacher. So I treat women with incontinence and pain in the va**na or back passage. I also treat ladies that are pregnant, help with cracked ni***es and mastitis from breastfeeding, and check them post pregnancy to ensure their pelvic floors and tummy muscles are safe to get back to exercise! So I’m basically a gynae Physio, and as it’s all I’ve done for so long, I’m pretty hopeless with anything like a shoulder or knee issue, but I’m pretty knowledgable about the pelvis! I’m fascinated by how our emotions impact on everything to do with va**na, especially with making the pelvic floor muscles too tight (you can get knots in your va**na muscles too!) and this can make s*x and tampons really painful. (See a women’s health Physio if this affects you!) I also treat kids with incontinence and bed wetting. Since opening my practice here a few weeks ago, I’ve been amazed by how many awesome ladies I’ve been able to connect with working in the womens health space, how many of my clients have helped to spread the word about what I do and I feel soo fortunate to get to do what I love everyday as a “job”! If you think you amy benefit from seeing me, please do get in touch :) Lulu

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