Carren Hughes Physiotherapy

15/04/2026

“Blow to go ladies” take your time on the loo and breathe into your belly. Straining to p**p can cause hemorrhoids and a**l fissures. But what nobody knows is if you strain every day even when you’re not constipated you can push down a pelvic organ prolapse in time. That is completely preventable!

15/04/2026

13/04/2026

Intro part 2 🙌🏽 my beautiful treatment room and the last bit my second best happy place, driving through Botswana’s wild open spaces. My patients often tell me they feel my treatment room is calm and relaxing. This is so important to me. A huge part of healing is calming your nervous system. So much of our day is filled with noise and constant distraction. It’s often the small changes that result in an overall more impactful result.

13/04/2026

It’s about time I made this official. I’ve never done a proper introduction so here goes. My name is Carren. I answer to Carrie, Ca and even Karen on occasion 😅.
I work with men and women in the field of pelvic health which means I treat people struggling with the very ordinary daily functions of p*e, p**p and pleasure. As well as pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain. I’m going to do my best to cover some basic pelvic education over the next few weeks and months and I’d love to answer your questions. So if there’s something you’ve been keeping to yourself regarding your own pelvic health (and would like to know what, why and how) let me know.

20/10/2025

I’m so looking forward to joining these incredible women for a day of sharing knowledge, care and friendship in their journey of healing. Not to mention all the exciting products I will have available to support women’s sexual health during and after cancer treatment and surgery.

01/03/2024

A day in the classroom today. Dry Needling and Pelvic floor 🙌🏽 feeling a little nervous excitement. Back to anatomy and Neurophysiology. It’s good stuff

13/02/2024

Calling all Moms in Morningside, Riverclub, Bryanston, Parkmore and surrounds. Come and join us on Thursday mornings at 9:30am for a lovely walk.

02/10/2023

Ladies in Joburg 🙌🏽 if you’ve ever wanted to know anything about your pelvis or pelvic floor: where it is, what it does, what happens after babies, through menopause etc etc…. Now is your chance. I’d love to meet you and share some life changing tips to help you navigate these challenges.

13/09/2023

How to fit a giant dog into a mini cooper! Open door, insert giant dog, close door 🙌🏽 if only your health could be that simple! 💫 Don’t overthink it

I had a chronic migraine patient this week. So often pelvic patients also suffer with jaw clenching, neck pain and chronic headaches.
So here is a very simple check list you can easily do all by yourself for 4-6weeks as an experiment to see how your body responds
Cut down or cut out sugar, caffeine and diet soda. Turn off screens about an hour before bed. Get to bed a couple hours earlier than you’re used to. Aim for 9pm to get in 8hours sleep! Exercise every day, even a 30min walk counts.

05/09/2023

I’m from Botswana after the most incredible family adventure. I truly feel blessed to have had one of the most amazing holidays of a lifetime. If any of you are interested or think it’s something you’d like to do one day, go for it! You won’t regret it. If you’d like to see what we got up to check out . Now I’m back in my lovely practice seeing my special ladies. Message from week one: To all the new moms out there, don’t be too rigid with rules and routines. Get the basics right (feed, change nappies, love and cuddle) and then take short day time naps, go for a walk, cut yourself some slack 💫

30/12/2022

Beach holidays and Urinary Incontinence 😬😣 it’s blazing hot, you’ve left the house for at least four or five hours and you’re drinking liters of water plus a possible coffee or cocktail. Yikes 😳
Not often you find a clean loo to use. Now what??? Not everyone is comfortable having a “swim” in the sea for relief 😅
What is your strategy?

12/10/2022

Its been a very long time since I’ve paid proper attention to my social media posts and although I’ve never been very good at this (I think it’s an age thing 🤦🏽‍♀️😅) I’m determined to improve my efforts 🙌🏽💫 It’s been a life altering two months of reassessing focus and priorities after having a pulmonary embolism. For any new followers, here we go…… 🥳 I am a Physiotherapist with almost 20 experience. My special interest is in Pelvic Health and Women’s health treating Pelvic Pain, Incontinence, Pelvic organ prolapse and all pregnancy related complaints such as Abdominal muscle desperation. I absolutely love my work as I get to help my patients make real changes in their lives.