Pregnancy Physio
Pregnancy is an exciting journey, but it can also bring physical discomfort and unexpected changes to your body. At Danielle Malone Physio, we specialise in pregnancy physiotherapy that supports you through each trimester and into the postnatal period. With a holistic approach, we endeavour to keep you fit and active and aim for you to […]
Women’s Health Physio- Pelvic Floor Assessment
Women’s Health Physio appointments begin with listening to your experiences in a safe environment. A detailed medical history allows for personalized treatment planning. Pelvic Floor assessments focus on strength, coordination, and flexibility, with options for internal or external examinations. You control the process, ensuring comfort and informed consent throughout.
How Pelvic Floor Physio Will Benefit You!
Pelvic floor physiotherapy is increasingly recognised as essential for various conditions affecting individuals with pelvic issues, regardless of gender or age. It focuses on holistic care encompassing bladder, bowel, and pelvic pain management, and is particularly beneficial during pregnancy and postpartum.
Common But Not Normal
Help or Hindrance? On the back of World Continence Week from the 21st to the 27th of June we have seen a massive campaign on social media to bring awareness about issues regarding continence. Be it the maintenance of continence, the causes and treatments of incontinence, or even the campaign for the provision of bins […]
Why do animals get disease but people get sick?
I am reading a book called “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” written by the late Oliver Sacks. It is inspirational. He is Inspirational. He has now been added to my list of people I would invite to a dinner party if I had the opportunity. Oliver Sacks was a Physician, an […]
Who is the most experienced physiotherapist you know?
Why did you decide to become a physiotherapist? For me, it was because throughout my teenage years, I experienced injury upon injury. Playing a range of different sports from Soccer, to Camogie, to rugby, to rowing and more. From seeing physiotherapist after physiotherapist, I saw how much they helped people like me. I saw it […]
My Take on the Biopsychosocial Model
We have heard so much about the Biopsychosocial model in the physio world over the last few years. In my Undergraduate Physiotherapy Program, we were taught a bit of a mixture of both the Postural Structural and Biomechanical, and the Biopsychosocial models. A mixture of both, but probably leaning toward the Biopsychosocial model- at least […]
Differences
Differences. A cause for celebration or tribulation? People are different. People are unique. It’s what makes us interesting. It’s what makes us special. It’s what makes the world go round. Without differences in individuals, we wouldn’t have doctors and nurses and window cleaners and mechanics. It’s what gives us other cultures to learn from, different […]
Guilt
I wasn’t sure about what I wanted to talk about this week. I didn’t have it perfectly planned. While trying to process my thoughts, I found it difficult without actually sitting down and typing. I thought back to the snowball effect that generally tends to happen when I do begin to type. So what do […]
What does physiotherapy mean to you?
This is a question I have always struggled to answer. What exactly is physiotherapy? And what does it mean to you? To the client in front of you it will mean something completely different to what it means to you. Potentially equally as fulfilling, but with complete different reasons. To the physio in the next […]