TasWomen is privileged to have Rachel Andrew,
APA Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapist, along with Physiotherapists Shannon Murphy and Chrissy Tadros as part of our women's health team. Many women are challenged by bowel and bladder issues, prolapse or pelvic pain at some stage during their lives – whether following surgery, injury, child birth, medical illness or as part of normal ageing.

At TasWomen we share the same passion as the Pelvic Physio Team, for Women's Health and the importance of a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to providing women with the high-quality healthcare they deserve.

Rachel Andrew & Team

BAppSc(Physio) MClinPhysio(Continence & Women’s Health)
APA Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapist

Rachel Andrew

APA Continence and Women's Health Physiotherapist
BAppSc(Physio) Master Clinical Physiotherapy (Continence & Women’s Health)

Rachel is passionate about women accessing pelvic floor physiotherapy. She wants women to take control, seek help and be able to talk about intimate symptoms in a safe space. She now works exclusively in Women’s Health.

Working as a physiotherapist since 2003, Rachel worked mainly in neurological rehabilitation and women’s health. This has taken her across Australia, as well as living and working in Tasmania for over 10 years.

Rachel has a Masters in Women's Health and is Titled by the Australian Physiotherapy Association as a Continence and Women’s Health Physiotherapist.

"APA Titled physiotherapists are highly qualified physiotherapists with expert knowledge and skills in their area of practice. They undergo a rigorous selection process to ensure that they achieve and maintain exceptional standards of clinical experience and knowledge. The APA Title serves as a mark of distinction."

Learn About the Pelvic Physio Team

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The Pelvic Physio team offer evidence based physiotherapy care and expertise to women of Hobart and Tasmania, across three common areas of women's health:

Pelvic and Abdominal Pain

Sexual Pain – pain with sex, vaginismus, vulvodynia, clitoral pain, sexual difficulty after cancer and pudendal neuralgia.
Endometriosis pain.
Pelvic organ prolapse-heaviness or dragging pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis.
Coccyx or tailbone pain-coccydynia.
Pelvic Girdle Pain-sacroiliac joint (SIJ) and Symphysis Pubic Dysfunction (SPD).
Bladder or bowel-pain with holding on, emptying or gassy pain; bloating.
General pelvic pain, but you are not sure why.

Bladder

Leakage-during life or during sport
Urgency-rushing to the toilet
Urge urinary incontinence-leaking on the way to the toilet
Stress urinary incontinence-leaking urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or lift things
Nocturia-getting up to urinate more than once a night
Frequency-going many times a day
Difficulty emptying your bladder
Over active bladder
Interstitial Cystitis or Bladder Pain Syndrome

Bowel

Bowel urgency-having to rush to the toilet or being afraid you won’t make it
Incontinence-leaking from your bowel-small or large amounts
Chronic constipation
Difficulty emptying your bowel
Irritable bowel
Bloating / gas and abdominal discomfort
Difficulty controlling wind
Frequency-going many times a day

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