The Mummy MOT
WHAT IS MUMMY MOT
The Mummy MOT is a comprehensive post-natal examination of women following both vaginal and C-section delivery. The assessment aims to identify how your body is recovering from pregnancy and giving birth.
Your osteopath, a certified Mummy MOT practitioner, will ask you specific questions and then look at your posture, movement, strength, abdominal muscles, pelvic stability and breathing.
As part of the assessment, and if you consent to it, the pelvic floor muscle can also be assessed internally. This assessment aims to determine if you can contract and relax the pelvic floor efficiently, see how the area heals, and recheck the muscle tone. We can further progress with treatment and rehabilitation to prevent any issues from developing in the future.
Depending on your goals, your Mummy MOT Osteopath will prescribe exercises and treatment to help your recovery and return to exercise/ sport.
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Why It Would Be Advised To Have Mummy Mot Done After Pregnancy
Up to a third of all women experience a problem with pelvic floor muscles at some point during their life. The most common problems are leaking with activity, sneezing or coughing (stress urinary incontinence) and pelvic organ prolapse (a feeling of something coming down in the vagina).
Pregnancy and giving birth are the most common causes of weakening the pelvic floor, mainly if your baby was large, you had an assisted birth (forceps/ventouse), or your labour was prolonged. The more births a woman has, the more likely she is to develop a prolapse in later life; however, you can still get a prolapse even if you haven’t given birth.
Performing pelvic floor exercises is very important after childbirth. Knowing how to perform them correctly and progress them will help with your confidence and return to activities and sports.
All the bladder, bowel and sexual functions require good pelvic floor muscles. Effective pelvic floor muscles in pregnancy will reduce the risk of postnatal stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
Furthermore, your pelvic floor muscles are crucial in …. Whole body
Having the Mummy MOT assessment, seeing how you are recovering from your pregnancy and guiding you through this process will build your confidence and help you confidently return to activities and sports, and prevent further injuries.
Looking into pelvic floor muscles, abdominal and lower back strength, optimal way of breathing and ribcage mobility are the starting point in Women’s Health Rehab.
What Is The Pelvic Floor?
The pelvic floor muscles are the floor to our core. The pelvic floor muscles are made up of deep and superficial layers that form a hammock which supports the pelvic organs (bladder, uterus and bowel). The pelvic floor is part of our deep core and has important functions of maintaining continence of the bladder and bowel and providing pelvic organ support so we have no discomfort, heaviness and dragging in the area.
