Women's Health Archives - Trillium Integrative Health Centre

Exercising During Pregnancy – A review of the 2019 Canadian guidelines for physical activity throughout pregnancy

January 31, 2022Hannah Barnes Women's Health

For a lot of women, knowing how to safely exercise during pregnancy can be very confusing. There is a lot of information out there and sifting through what is up to date and accurate versus what is out of date and inaccurate information can be difficult. Although this is an area in need of more research, […]

Return to Running Postpartum

August 31, 2020Hannah Barnes Women's Health

Knowing how and when to safely return to running or impact sports and activities postpartum can be challenging for new moms. How long should I wait until it is safe to resume activity postpartum? How long until I can return to running/impact postpartum? How can I safely return to running postpartum? Living and working as a pelvic floor physiotherapist […]

Diastasis Rectus Abdominus (DRA)

July 20, 2020Hannah Barnes Women's Health

July is Diastasis Rectus Abdominus (DRA) awareness month and with so much misinformation and fear around what diastasis is and what it means in your recovery postpartum, I thought this was a good opportunity to provide some information and dispel some common myths! What is Diastasis? Diastasis is the separation of the central abdominal wall […]

Hypnobirthing – What is it and how it can benefit you through your pregnancy and birthing experience!

May 1, 2020Lorna Evenden Women's Health

For a lot of women, throughout most of our lives, we have been inundated with the negative stories of birth. We have been conditioned to believe that great pain is associated with birth and because of this, women today hold an unprecedented amount of fear around giving birth. Fear has a very predictable and powerful […]

What is the Pelvic Floor and why is it important?

March 10, 2020Hannah Barnes Pelvic Floor Women's Health

The Pelvic Floor is a sling of muscles that act like a hammock of support at the base of the pelvis. They have 4 main functions: Support the Pelvic Organs – In men this includes the bladder and bowel while in women this includes the bladder, bowel and uterus. If the pelvic floor muscles fail to offer enough […]

Women’s Health from a Chinese Medicine Perspective

September 5, 2019Savanna Levenson Women's Health

I recently attended the Integrative Fertility Symposium 2019 in Vancouver BC. The speakers were international ranging from Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists, to Naturopathic Doctors and Western Medical Doctors. It was three days of an outpouring of knowledge about women’s health, fertility, pregnancy, birthing and peri-menopause to menopause. In my practice here […]