- The Mummy MOT
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At our clinic, Judy Bunney, our specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapist, offers The Mummy MOT® — a comprehensive postnatal assessment designed to support your recovery after childbirth and help you return to exercise, daily activities, and feeling like yourself again.
Suitable from around 6 weeks after birth, this specialist assessment can also be highly beneficial months or even years later, whether you are experiencing symptoms or simply want reassurance that your body is recovering well.
The appointment includes a thorough assessment of your posture, movement, abdominal muscles, pelvic floor function, and core stability, together with an evaluation of any pain, weakness, or symptoms you may be experiencing.
Following your assessment, Judy will provide expert advice, hands-on treatment where appropriate, and a personalised rehabilitation programme tailored to your individual needs and goals. This may include exercises to support recovery, improve strength and stability, and guide a safe return to exercise.
The Mummy MOT® can be particularly helpful for concerns such as:
- Pelvic floor weakness or bladder symptoms
- Abdominal separation (diastasis recti)
- Lower back, pelvic, or hip pain
- Weakness through the core muscles
- Postural changes following pregnancy
- Support with returning to exercise safely
Our aim is to help you recover well, move with confidence, and support your long-term health and wellbeing.
Please contact the clinic to book an appointment with Judy Bunney or to discuss whether The Mummy MOT® is the right assessment for you.
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness
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Muscles can become weak due to a number of factors including chronic constipation and straining and following pregnancy and childbirth.
An assessment and guidance on exercise is extremely helpful with up to 50% of people thought to do pelvic floor exercises incorrectly.
- Bladder Dysfunction
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Including urinary stress incontinence which affects 1 in 3 women (leaking on coughing, sneezing, laughing or exercising). Physio can help stop this issue for around 75% of women.
Urgency and urge incontinence where pelvic floor exercises, bladder re-training and acupuncture can all be a big help.
- Additional Women’s Health Physiotherapy Services
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Women’s Health Physiotherapist Judy Bunny, joined the fantastic Women’s Health Physio Team at The Royal Free Hospital initially as a Junior and then again as a Senior Physiotherapist. She has had some invaluable teaching and supervision during her 12 years at the hospital and has continued to progress her training since.
Now at The Physiotherapy Clinic (WGC), Judy treats the following conditions:
- Bowel dysfunction – including bowel incontinence and constipation
- Bladder pain syndrome (Interstitial Cystitis)
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain
- Diastasis Rectus Abdominus (DRA), otherwise known as a tummy gap, sometimes noticeable after having a baby
- Hip pain
- Thoracic/rib pain
- Pelvic floor muscle overactivity (hypertonicity)/Vaginismus
- Painful sex (Dyspareunia)
- Safe return to exercise
- Menopause MOT
