PostureFitting

As the founder of PostureFitting, I am so proud of Align and Uplift & Marianne Carroll, not just for this article and for her flying the flag for PostureFitting by being the 1st NZ B👀by Physio, but also for the difference she has made for so many women in Te'Anau and Invercargill, as evidenced by some of the comments with this post - comhgairdeas & grma 🙏🏼 Marianne!💃🏼👙👀💃🏿

Very excited to enlighten my fellow Corkonians on the impact of breast weight on health and wellbeing over the lifecycle. And all the better to be doing so alongside my fab physio colleagues Shalini Wiseman & Sinéad Curran, who will speak about pelvic & bone health, respectively, over the female lifespan.

Thanks to Niche Knocknaheeny for organizing the event, and to all those involved from its initial conception to bringing it to life.

September's🥇1st on the 1st🥇is another unusual one! Tell me you're not currently a hands-on therapist without telling me...

Over the 4 decades of my professional life, I have always coveted having "not-short" nails, but only actually managed it for my wedding day (and those were not my own!) - they tend to be somewhat obstructive to hands-on patient care.! But this one most certainly is mine, and is a result of most of my clinical time now being spent using my eyes and my ears more than my hands. This is absolutely not because I am manual-therapy averse - it is simply how my practice has evolved, to specialise in breast weight management.

And so I am calling all therapists interested in helping to better serve the women & girls you work with by learning more about this problem, which is very much hidden in plain sight. Once you see it, you can't unsee it! WhatsApp message me on +353 87 7678873 (which spells POSTURE 👊🏻) to be added to the interest group who get first dibs on my next Gals against Gravity workshop (mid-late Sept, dates TBC).

And who knows, you might even end up joining our fab PostureFitting team below, offering a hugely beneficial service whilst decreasing the physical demand on you!

ENG:
Cheshire: Women’s Rehab Collective
Cumbria: Absolute Womens Health
Norfolk: Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
Surrey: Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
West Sussex: Knapton Physiotherapy / PhysioFast Online (coming soon)
Wolverhampton: Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
Yorkshire: North Yorkshire Physiotherapy

IRL:
Co Cork: Posture Matters
Co Dublin: Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
Co Galway: Pelvic Health West (coming soon)
Co Limerick: West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
Co Wexford: Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
Co Wicklow: Wicklow B👀by Physio

NZ:
Te-Anau & Invercargill: Align and Uplift

SCOT:
Lanark: The Youth Sports Educator

USA:
Maine: The Wright B👀by Trainer

Contact us via www.posturefittingphysio.com to help us in our goal to help women and girls independently manage their own breast weight, both internally & externally. Or simply to be uplifted yourself!💃🏿👙👀💃🏼

What do we really see when we say to someone "You're looking well"?
Is it a visual appearance, or is it a deeper view into what is driving how they look at that particular moment in time?

How we feel affects how we look, how we move, what we do.
And how we feel, move and what we do in turn affects how we look.

Confidence is an immediate uplift to how we feel, and by extension to how we look. There are a multitude of ways to gain transient confidence (Rebecca's lion pose in the series "Ted Lasso" comes to mind), but maintaining it requires a belief that lasts longer than a moment. That belief is rooted in education and empowerment.

Aside from its fantastic fundraising purpose, this is where events like this Catwalk Extravaganza in West Cork on Friday Aug 28th can provide a sustainable boost to self-esteem and all that it goes on to impact. And there is nothing better than a room full of people creating the energy and enthusiasm that comes with being enjoyably enlightened! Come along on Friday eve, and leave knowing, amongst other things, which job is considered to be the happiest job in the world, and why.....

See image for details including QR code for booking.

Can't make it but still interested in a confidence boost? See www.posturefittingphysio to learn about PostureFitting, the physiotherapy service helping women and girls feel, move, look better by managing their breast weight independently, internally (via posture/alignment) & externally (via DIY bra-fit).

Available virtually as well as in the following locations in Irl, Eng, Scot, NZ and the US:

🌹Absolute Women's Health
🥝Align and Uplift
🌹Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
☘️Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
🌹Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
🌹Katie Knapton Physiotherapy / Physio Fast Online
☘️Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
🌹North Yorkshire Physiotherapy
☘️ Pelvic Health West (coming very soon!)
☘️ Posture Matters
🛡️TK Youth Sports Physio / The Youth Sports Educator
☘️ West Limerick Physiotherapy
🌹Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
☘️Wicklow B***y Physio (coming very soon!)
🌹Womens Rehab Collective
🏈The Wright Edit

🥇 August's 1st on the 1st - a different & unanticipated one🥇- my 1st (& hopefully last) time having a detached retina 👀- & my introduction to the verb & concept of "posturing" . This took the form of side-lying, thankfully, as it had to be done for 50 mins of every hour for 10 days. However.....

I was lucky as I had 50/50 odds of having to lie on my front for those 10 days, day & night.. Clearly no consideration given to women having to lie in this position 👀 & yet another example of women being treated as small men in the medical world. So you might not be surprised to learn that whilst lying there for all that time, I have been designing a solution, which may well have applications elsewhere 🤔 - watch this space!!

I am now more grateful than ever for the challenge of resisting gravity by being upright again! If your b👀bs are causing a barrier for you, in any part of your life, contact us via www.posturefittingphysio.com to discuss if we can help you. PostureFitting, our breast & posture management physiotherapy service, is available in England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand & very soon in the USA, via my fab PostureFitting Partners:

🌹ENG:
Absolute Womens Health
Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
PhysioFast Online
North Yorkshire Physiotherapy
Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
Women’s Rehab Collective

☘️ IRL:
Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
Posture Matters
West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
👏🏼 Coming soon to Galway & Wicklow 👊🏽

💙 SCOT;
The Youth Sports Educator

🌏NZ:
Align and Uplift

🌎 USA
👊🏽 Coming soon 👏🏼

🥇July's 1st on the 1st🥇- another global achievement, breaking into our 3rd continent to help women & girls manage their breast weight independently & throughout their lives, with our soon-to-be revealed 1st PostureFitting Partner in the USA!💃🏼👙👀💃🏿

3 continents down, 4 to go (although Antartica might be a challenge! 😛):

New Zealand's B👀by Physio from Align and Uplift is our Oceanic (shown in previous image as Australia, with apols to the non-Aussies!) presence, whilst our 14 European providers are spread over England, Ireland & Scotland @:

❤️
Absolute Womens Health
Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
Katie Knapton Physiotherapy
North Yorkshire Physiotherapy
Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
Women’s Rehab Collective
💚
Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
Posture Matters
West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
👏🏼 Coming soon to Galway & Wicklow 👊🏽

💙
The Youth Sports Educator

See www.posturefittingphysio.com for more info on the benefits of tackling this underestimated, under-recognized global issue, truly hidden in plain sight!

# women

Movement snacks - which usually require a change in posture not unlike that described here by Charlie Brown, admittedly not known for his postural expertise, but he does make a valid point, proven by research!)

But, should we move? Why should we? How long for? And do what?

Join me on Lunchtime Live on Newstalk (link below) when I will be discussing the many - valid - questions around this concept with Andrea Galligan. Prompted by now having an evidence-based answer, thanks to a study at Columbia University published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

https://loom.ly/K7If6jQ

Movement snacks - which usually require a change in posture not unlike that described here by Charlie Brown, admittedly not known for his postural expertise, but he does make a valid point, proven by research!)
But, should we move? Why should we? How long for? And do what?
Join me on Lunchtime Live on Newstalk (link below) when I will be discussing the many - valid - questions around this concept with Andrea Galligan. Prompted by now having an evidence-based answer, thanks to a study at Columbia University published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

https://loom.ly/K7If6jQ

🥁Drumroll.... Come hear The B👀by Physio in London next Sat June 13th, at The Everywoman Festival!🥁

This phenomenal women's health event is spreading its fantastic vibe - after 3 years in Cardiff, last weekend EdinBRA (best way to sound local if you're not Scottish!), this weekend London. Featuring a plethora of experts covering every female health topic you can think of, including uplifting & enlightening breast weight independently & sustainably, via both internal & external means (yep, that one's me!). Plus my good friend & fellow physio, Claire Callaghan, will be speaking about weight loss injections & muscles, joints & bones.

I'll be In Bay 3 at 1520. so get yourself booked in on now on www.everywomanfest.com - there's even a 3 for 2 offer on the entrance price right now - & let's get your dipped headlights to high beam!🤪

🥇 June's 1st on the 1st 🥇starts with a query - what is the collective noun for a group of high-beamed women who have been uplifted & enlightened by having a PostureFitting?!? Answers on a postcard or in the comments pls ...🤪

Last Friday at the Ladies Lounge held in the RCSI, Dublin, was the 1st time:
1) we had a gathering of PostureFitting "alumni" in one location;
2) that during my presentation, when I asked the Ladies Lounge attendees to actively slump in their seats, this trio physically struggled to slouch! A fist-bumping vindication of the support their PostureFittings have given them!

And the answer for them to the headline "Are You Wearing Someone Else's Bra"? A resounding "Not any more!!"

Gravity, we have your number!💃👙👀💃🏿
To learn how to manage your breast weight so that you can also, to quote one of the trio, "light up the night sky" with your high beams, contact one of our team below:

🌹England🌹
Cheshire: Women’s Rehab Collective
Cumbria: Absolute Womens Health
Norfolk: Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
Surrey: Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
West Sussex: PhysioFast Online (Katie Knapton Physiotherapy)
Wolverhampton: Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
Yorkshire: North Yorkshire Physiotherapy

☘️ Ireland☘️
Cork: Posture Matters
Dublin: Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
Galway: coming soon!
Limerick: West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
Wexford: Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
Wicklow: coming soon!

🌿New Zealand🥝
Te-Anau & Invercargill: Align and Uplift

💃🏽Scotland💃
Lanark: The Youth Sports Educator

🌎USA 🌎
Coming soon!

www.posturefittingphysio.com