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Talya Chemel Physiotherapy, Blubird Medical Suites, Blubird Shopping Centre, Shop 30, Level 1. Corner Atholl Oaklands and North Street, Melrose North, Johannesburg (2025)

09/09/2025

Taking Care of my Core Postaprtum

This season is about rebuilding gently, intentionally, and with kindness to my body. My focus right now isn’t on “bouncing back” but rather “bouncing forward” — it’s on reconnecting with my core and supporting healing from the inside out.

🌬️ Diaphragmatic Breathing
Reconnecting my breath, pelvic floor + core. Restoring calm to my nervous system.
🤍 Abdominal Support
Gentle external support while my tissues heal with some form fitting leggings that provide abdominal support but not too much that it increases the pressure through my pelvic floor.
💪 Core Activation with Movement
Small, mindful activations that fit into daily life such as lifting my baby, getting up from the couch etc.
🧍‍♀️ Posture
Stacking ribs, pelvis + spine for support and alignment. Being mindful of how I’m standing while rocking baby - that posture of bum in, swaying back is not very pretty.
✨ Pelvic Floor Integration
Coordinating breath, core + pelvic floor as one team and working on my pelvic floor contraction as well as relaxation.
🏋️ Progressive Loading
Gradually layering in resistance and strength work - we are starting so slow. With some balance exercises, body weight, activations.
🚶‍♀️ Walking + Functional Movement
Making daily tasks and walks part of my healing journey. As well as playing with my kids on the floor and in the garden.

Slow • Steady • Sustainable
Because postpartum recovery is a marathon, not a sprint. And that takes ages to train for.

04/09/2025

How to take care of your perineum after a vaginal delivery

Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions

With you in all p*e, p**p, pregnancy, pleasure and postpartum,
Talya x

02/09/2025

Big News for TCP!!

Please join me in welcoming Ellen to our team!

At just 28, Ellen is an energetic, passionate, and brilliant physiotherapist with a wealth of knowledge and heart. Her special interests include women’s health, neuromusculoskeletal conditions, and sports injuries – making her the perfect fit for our growing community of patients.

Ellen is also a powerful yoga instructor who truly believes in the power of movement, blending science and mindfulness to help you feel your absolute best!

She’ll be seeing patients at both our Blubird and Melrose Arch practices, and we couldn’t be more excited to extend our offerings and continue being your partners in wellness.

WhatsApp me on 0837927912 or call the practice on 0114401412 to secure your spot!

01/09/2025

Welcome to the world, our little Oriya ✨

Our hearts are bursting as we welcome our third beautiful daughter to our family. Three girls… I still can’t quite believe I get the honor of being their mama. Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve the gift of being chosen by them, and every day I’m reminded that it’s the biggest privilege of my life.

But let’s be real – this season is big. It’s magical, emotional, overwhelming, and exhausting all at once. Even as a women’s health physio who teaches about the postpartum journey, I’m reminded that living it is a whole different experience. The healing, the emotions, the adjustments, the constant surrender… it’s raw and real.

To every new mama out there: you’re not alone. This chapter asks so much of us, but it also gives us moments of love so deep it’s hard to put into words.

Here’s to embracing the chaos, the cuddles, the healing, and the honor of raising strong, kind, incredible little women.

Welcome home, Oriya. You’ve filled our hearts in the most perfect way.

14/05/2025

It’s finally here!
Ag I love it when real, hard research comes out in women’s health!

No more excuses mommies - let’s get moving!

Article: Davenport, M. H., Ruchat, S. M., Garcia, A. J., Ali, M. U., Forte, M., Beamish, N., ... & Neil-Sztramko, S. E. (2025). 2025 Canadian guideline for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep throughout the first year post partum. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 59(8), 515-526.

07/05/2025

World Maternal Mental Health Day

Awg… a day that brings tears to my eyes…
Because I have seen the struggles, I have felt the hardships, I have held the loneliness…

1 in 5 Mothers are Impacted by Mental Health Conditions.
Making it the MOST COMMON complication of pregnancy and birth.

Mental Health Conditions are a Leading Cause of Maternal Deaths:
Su***de and overdose are LEADING CAUSES of death for women in the first year following pregnancy.

75% of Women are Untreated, Increasing Risk of Negative Impacts:
On their bodies, their families and their babies.

It’s Not Just Postpartum Depression: Maternal mental health conditions can occur during pregnancy and up to one year following pregnancy and include depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar illness, psychosis, and substance use disorders.

There’s so much more to say…
Look out for the mothers in your communities. They need you attention and support and non-judging love.

With every mother, every day, always,
Talya

31/12/2024

Happy New Year Wonderful Humans

Thank you for entrusting me and my team with your health, wellness, pain and dysfunction.
It’s an absolute privilege. One which I am so grateful for.

I hope you are looking back this evening with admiration of your strength, grit and determination.
I know I am looking at you like that...
Be proud of what you have achieved, accomplished and survived but also what you have left behind.
Be proud of your progress.

I admire you all. Every part of you.

May it be a year of good health and ease in ability.
May you flourish and sprout to be exactly what you want.

We’ll see you in the new year,
Looking forward to continuing our journey together,

Much love for you all,
Talya

#2025

25/11/2024

GBV Stats
16 Days of Activism Against GBV

Stats that will make you feel sick to your stomach

1 women in killed every 10 minutes.

1 in 3 women experience violence in their lifetime (physical or sexual in nature).

60% female homicides were committed by partners or family members (mostly former husbands or current partners).

What can you do to take action against GBV?

We deserve better.
Our children deserve better.
Our mothers deserve better.
You deserve better.

With all women today and every day,
Talya

25/11/2024

GBV Stats
16 Days of Activism Against GBV

Stats that will make you feel sick to your stomach

1 women in killed every 10 minutes.

1 in 3 women experience violence in their lifetime (physical or sexual in nature).

60% female homicides were committed by partners or family members (mostly former husbands or current partners).

What can you do to take action against GBV?

We deserve better.
Our children deserve better.
Our mothers deserve better.
You deserve better.

With all women today and every day,
Talya

06/11/2024

Bladder Irritants
Bladder health awareness month
November 2024

- Coffee
- Tea
- Alcohol
- Ci******es
- Artificial sweeteners
- Chocolate
- Carbonated drinks (even sparkling water)
- Citrus fruits
- Tomato

Do you find some days your bladder is I happier than others?
More leaking? More urgency? More burning? More bloating?
Maybe it’s linked to your diet - try take note of what you’re consumed on those days and limit those items.
It can be a game changer!!

With you in all p*e, p**p, pain and pleasure,
Talya

04/11/2024

Bladder Health Awareness Month
November 2024

Something, I think, we often overlook and take for granted but if your bladder does not work the way you need it to… you’ll know all about it.

1 in 10 people suffer from bladder issues. And when we zone in on women specifically - 45% of women suffer with some sort of issue related to incontinence…
That’s a big number.

Normals:
- Urinating 6 - 8 times a day
- No urination during the night (once may be normal as we age)
- Light, dilute yellow color
- No pain while urinating
- Ease in urinating
- Solid flow that sounds like pshhhh (not psh psh psh)
- Ability to hold urine in
- No leaking of urine with urge and physical activities such as sneezing, jumping, coughing, running

Take a minute to think about your bladder and your daily habits…
If you don’t fit into these normals, shout out to your GP, urologist or pelvic health physiotherapist.
Don’t settle.

With you in all p*e, p**p, pleasure and periods,
Talya

*ewee

21/10/2024

Running a Marathon…

A dream I didn’t think I’d ever have and certainly didn’t think I’d ever achieve.

A task I took on purely for myself. Not for my marriage, not for my children, not for my work and not for anyone else. Just for me, a task of pure selfishness.

A journey that took many many many 3.45am wake ups, early nights, gels, water bottles, rehydrates, caffeine, sweat, tears, smiles and literally blood.

A feat filled with so much pride for my body. A body that has over the last 3 years had 2 pregnancies, birthed 2 babies (3 days of labor, a vaginal delivery and an emergency c section), breastfed for over 2 years, suffered many low mental health days and a full rediscovery process… it has been through so much and has come out stronger, softer and more capable.

As I had written on my arm and looked at through out the marathon: I can do hard things.
We are capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to dream.
So grateful to my body, my support (Aharon, Eliya and Nava), my family and friends. And myself for not giving up on me and putting in the hard work.

Can’t wait to do it again one day,
Much love,
Talya

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