Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy

02/10/2026

A Simple First Step for Managing Chronic Pain

A simple first step if you're living with chronic pain. Senior Physiotherapist Charles Colen explains how to pick one activity pain has made difficult, write down what you can manage consistently right now, and set a realistic goal for what you'd like to get back to. The aim isn't to test your limits. It's to find an honest starting point.

29/09/2026

Céline Van Zyl, senior women's health and pelvic floor physiotherapist, has joined our team and is now seeing patients in Wynnum.

Céline has been a physio for over 20 years, most of it in private practice. She joins our women's health team and helps women through pregnancy and postnatal recovery, pelvic girdle pain, pelvic pain and endometriosis, and the changes that come with perimenopause and menopause. Alongside that she treats a lot of persistent and recurring musculoskeletal pain, including back and neck problems and TMJ dysfunction.

Céline combines a fascial-based treatment approach with movement work, and she's also a qualified MAP Movement Trainer and Pilates instructor. Her assessment looks at how the whole body is moving and compensating, which is particularly useful when a problem keeps coming back.

You can read more about Céline and book with her through the link below.

24/09/2026

When pain lasts for months, it’s easy to wonder: “Will it always be like this?”

Chronic pain describes how long pain has been present. It doesn’t automatically mean it’s permanent or that you cannot improve.

In the first episode of our chronic pain education series, we explore persistent pain from a physiotherapy perspective, including:

• How longer-term pain differs from a recent injury.
• How pain can affect movement, strength and everyday activities.
• The “boom-and-bust” cycle of doing more on good days, then needing days to recover.
• Why progress can mean walking further, moving more confidently or returning to activities you enjoy, even when some pain remains.

Whether you’re living with persistent back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain or knee pain, this episode offers a starting point for understanding your experience.

Produced by Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy in Wynnum, this series shares practical information to help you better understand and manage persistent pain.

Why can pain continue even after an injury has healed?Charles Col...

23/09/2026

Does chronic pain mean you can’t improve?

Charles explains that some people experience a significant reduction in pain. Others continue to have some symptoms but improve their movement, strength, confidence and ability to participate in everyday life.

18/09/2026

How do you know if you’re actually using your pelvic floor muscles correctly?

Dimity Weaver, Senior Physiotherapist and pelvic floor physiotherapist at Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy in Wynnum, explains what a pelvic floor contraction should feel like and guides you through a gentle pelvic floor exercise.

She also covers how to find the right muscles, common mistakes to avoid, and why relaxation matters.

How do you know if you’re actually using your pelvic floor muscles ...

05/06/2026

What is pelvic floor physiotherapy?

Pelvic floor physiotherapy helps assess and treat problems involving the pelvic floor muscles, bladder, bowel, pelvic pain, pregnancy, postnatal recovery and menopause-related changes.

It is not just about doing Kegels.

A pelvic floor physiotherapist looks at how the pelvic floor is working, whether the muscles are weak, tight, overactive, poorly coordinated, or not relaxing properly.

It may help with symptoms such as:

• bladder leakage
• urgency or frequent urination
• heaviness or prolapse symptoms
• pain with in*******se
• pelvic pain
• postnatal recovery
• changes during pregnancy or menopause

At Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy in Wynnum, our pelvic floor physiotherapy appointments are private, thorough and focused on helping you understand what is happening and what can be done about it.

Book online or contact our team if you would like to know whether pelvic floor physiotherapy may be suitable for you.

03/06/2026

Pelvic floor physiotherapy is much more than just Kegels.

At Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy, our pelvic floor physiotherapists can assess how your pelvic floor is working and whether Kegels are the right choice of exercise for you.

Learn more about our pelvic floor physiotherapy treatments at:
https://advantagehealth.net.au/womens-health-physiotherapy/

28/05/2026

Meet Caitlin McNicholas, Senior Physiotherapist at Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy.

Caitlin is an experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist, helping patients with acute injuries, post-operative rehabilitation and longer-term pain or movement concerns.

Her treatment approach includes clear assessment, patient-centred planning, manual therapy, and exercise base rehabilitation where appropriate.

Learn more or book online:

https://advantagehealth.net.au/our-team/caitlin-mcnicholas/

27/05/2026

Bladder leakage is common, but it is not something you simply have to ignore.

Pelvic floor physiotherapy can help assess what may be contributing to leakage and guide a structured plan to improve control, confidence and day-to-day function.

This may include support for leakage with coughing, sneezing, lifting, running, exercise or urgency.

Learn more about pelvic floor physiotherapy on our website.

22/05/2026

Pelvic floor physiotherapy can help with a range of symptoms such as bladder leakage, urgency, prolapse symptoms, pregnancy and post natal concerns. Dimity explains some of the reasons someone may go to a women's health physiotherapist for treatment. https://advantagehealth.net.au/womens-health-physiotherapy/