Liberate Physiotherapy

Liberate Physiotherapy Liberate Physiotherapy is the leading edge physiotherapy clinic with a focus on Women's health, pre & post natal, clinical Pilates and general sports therapy.

05/08/2026

One of my patients this week thought she was doing something wrong because she was still constipated.
She wasn't.
She was eating enough fibre, drinking enough water, and exercising regularly.
The real issue? A pelvic floor that couldn't relax.
If you're straining despite doing all the "right" things, it might be time to stop blaming your gut and start looking at your pelvic floor.

05/08/2026

One of my patients this week thought she was doing something wrong because she was still constipated.

She wasn't.

She was eating enough fibre, drinking enough water, and exercising regularly.

The real issue? A pelvic floor that couldn't relax.

If you're straining despite doing all the "right" things, it might be time to stop blaming your gut and start looking at your pelvic floor.

Comment STRESS and I'll send you the link to my course, where I teach you exactly how to poo properly and address one of the most commonly missed causes of constipation.

30/07/2026

Lifting weights doesn't cause pelvic floor problems. Holding your breath and creating too much pressure can.

A simple tip: breathe out as you lift. That small change can reduce downward pressure through your pelvic floor and help you lift with more confidence.

Your pelvic floor is designed to handle load. It just needs the right strategy.

Comment STRESS and I'll send you my guide on treating stress incontinence.

29/07/2026

💩 How to poo properly.

It sounds simple, but how you sit and how you push can make a huge difference if you're struggling with constipation, pelvic floor tension, or incomplete emptying.

Small changes to your technique can help your bowels work with you, not against you.

23/07/2026

Your pelvic floor might not be "tight." It might be compensating. 👀

Here's the deal: when your posture shifts, everything downstream shifts with it. And your pelvic floor is one of the first things to feel the strain.

Two common patterns I see all the time ⬇️

✨ A tucked pelvis (b***y gripping) → shortens the pelvic floor, keeps it stuck in constant contraction, never allows it to release
✨ A flared ribcage (chest lifted, back arched) → creates a pressure mismatch between the diaphragm and pelvic floor, forcing the floor to grip to stabilise what your core isn't

So instead of doing endless Kegels, this is what actually shifts a chronically tight pelvic floor:

✅ Ribcage stacked over pelvis, not flared or collapsed
✅ Diaphragmatic breathing that expands your ribs 360 degrees
✅ Stop tucking your tailbone or gripping your glutes
✅ Release your jaw and shoulders throughout the day
✅ Address the whole system, not just the floor

Your pelvic floor doesn't work alone. It's part of a pressure system with your diaphragm above, your deep core around, and your hips beside it. When your posture is off, the pelvic floor takes the hit.

Once you shift the posture, expect to feel:

🌿 Softer through the pelvis
🌿 More responsive through the whole core
🌿 Less bracing, more breath
🌿 A body that finally lets go

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, this is exactly the kind of full-system work I build into every program.

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22/07/2026

The "I don't have a bowel problem" but you probably do 😏 list of symptoms women have quietly normalised 👆🏻

I hear it all the time. "My bowels are fine, I just…"

🚫 I just have to strain a bit
🚫 I just get bloated by evening
🚫 I just go every couple of days
🚫 I just have to sit for a while
🚫 I just have to eat more fibre
🚫 I just have IBS
🚫 I just have a sensitive gut

None of that is fine. It's normalised, but it's not normal. And almost every one of these symptoms links directly back to your pelvic floor.

Here's how:

➡️ Straining = a pelvic floor that can't release for stool to pass
➡️ Bloating = pelvic floor tension trapping gas and pressure
➡️ Never fully empty = muscles around the re**um stuck partially contracted
➡️ Going every few days = a dysregulated nervous system slowing gut transit
➡️ Haemorrhoids = repeated pushing against a floor that won't let go
➡️ That "stuck" feeling = a floor gripping around the clock, blocking the way out

Your pelvic floor works with:

👉🏻 your diaphragm above
👉🏻 your deep core around
👉🏻 your bowel through it

Together they create the pressure system that governs how (and whether) your bowels actually move. When your pelvic floor is chronically tight, the whole system breaks down, and no amount of fibre, magnesium, or probiotics fixes it.

So if you resonate with any of the "sneaky" presentations above, you might have just found the missing link to why your bowels have never quite worked properly.

The fix isn't more fibre. It's release.

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, this is exactly the pattern I unwind with women every single week.

🔥 Comment "TOILET" for my free guide on constipation.

21/07/2026

If you've been straining, sitting for ages, and still getting up with that "not fully empty" feeling, your pelvic floor is the reason.

For a bowel movement to happen comfortably, your pelvic floor has to fully release. Not push. Not brace. Not squeeze. Release.

Try these 3 next time you sit on the toilet:

✅ Diaphragmatic breathing

Inhale slowly all the way down toward your perineum. Let your lower belly expand fully. Think of the breath dropping and widening, not lifting or pulling in. Your pelvic floor follows your breath. Always.

✅ Let your knees fall wide

Feet on a footstool so your knees sit above your hips. Lean forward with elbows on your knees, letting your inner thighs soften. Releasing the adductors gives your pelvic floor permission to let go too, and opens the natural angle of your re**um for stool to pass.

✅ Release your mouth and tongue

This one matters more than most women realise. Soften the roof of your mouth, let the root of your tongue relax, unclench your jaw. Jaw tension and pelvic floor tension travel together. Where one goes, the other follows.

Less effort. More permission. Sometimes the work isn't pushing harder, it's finally allowing your body to let go.

Practising this daily is how you retrain a pelvic floor that has spent years bracing instead of releasing. And that is the work that changes chronic constipation.

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, this is one of the first things I teach women struggling to empty properly. Because you cannot force what needs to release.

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20/07/2026

🚫 A pelvic floor that protected itself during birth and never learned how to release afterwards

🚫 Scar tissue from a tear or episiotomy pulling the surrounding muscles into chronic tension

🚫 A nervous system now bracing in anticipation of pain before anything has even happened

🚫 No one assessing your pelvic floor postnatally, leaving you with a six-week check that ended at "you're cleared for s\*x"

This is the most missed pattern in postnatal recovery. New mums spend months and years avoiding intimacy, using lubricant, and quietly wondering if their body will ever feel the same. When the actual answer was always in releasing the tension underneath.

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, postnatal painful s\*x is one of the most treatable presentations I work with. And the change women experience when it's properly addressed is enormous.

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18/07/2026

She came in with a list.

Lubricant. Oestrogen cream. Wine before. Breathing exercises. Every single thing she'd been told to try, done faithfully for twelve months.

The pain was exactly the same.

She brought me that specific kind of exhaustion that belongs to a woman who has followed every instruction and run out of explanations. She was avoiding her partner. She was quietly grieving the life she used to have.

Nobody had asked her the right question yet. I did.

What is your pelvic floor actually doing?

Burning at the entrance. Bracing before pe*******on even began. Tension she carried in her jaw, her shoulders, her hips, all day long without noticing.

A chronically tight, overactive pelvic floor. Stuck in a protective guarding pattern for years. The lubricant was treating dryness she didn't really have. The oestrogen cream was treating tissue when the real problem was muscular.

We released the pelvic floor first. Downtrained the guarding. Restored the breath. Calmed the nervous system that had learned to associate intimacy with pain.

Six weeks later, pe*******on was comfortable for the first time in years.

The lubricant was never the problem. Nobody had looked deep enough to find what was.

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, painful s\*x is one of the most undertreated and most solvable presentations I see.

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17/07/2026

🚩 Chronic constipation, because your pelvic floor has to fully release for stool to pass. When it can't let go, nothing moves easily.

🚩 Bloating that only gets worse, because a gripping pelvic floor disrupts how your core manages pressure and gas, leaving you backed up and persistently full.

🚩 Straining every single time, because your body is trying to push against a door that won't open. The strain is the symptom, not the solution.

🚩 That "stuck" feeling, because there's nowhere for things to move when the floor underneath is gripping around the clock.

🚩 Haemorrhoids that keep coming back, because repeated straining against a non-relaxing floor increases re**al pressure over time. That's exactly where haemorrhoids come from.

🚩 Never fully emptying, because the muscles around your re**um stay partially contracted, leaving stool behind every single time you go.

🚩 Bowels that only move when they want to, because a dysregulated nervous system and chronically tight floor have hijacked the timing of your gut entirely.

This is one of the most missed patterns in women's health. Women spend years adjusting diet, increasing fibre, trying every probiotic, when the actual problem is muscular tension underneath.

The fix isn't more fibre. It's release.

As a PhD-trained pelvic floor physiotherapist, this is exactly the kind of crossover I treat every single week. Because you cannot fix a tight system by tightening it further.

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