Innovative Physio Pilates

Innovative Physio

Innovative Physio Pilates in Edithvale are educators in pelvic floor & core functional fitness. Our aim is to empower women to maintain a strong well-functioning body.

Our services

• Women’s Pelvic Health – pelvic floor muscle strengthening, incontinence, and pelvic organ prolapse care, treatment for lower back and incontinence, blocked breast ducts, and mastitis
• Real-time ultrasound biofeedback
• Preparation for pregnancy
• Pilates for pregnancy and beyond
• Treatment for pelvic girdle pain
• Musculoskeletal physiotherapy – low back pain, neck, headaches, shoulder, hip, knee, ankle issues

Experience our innovative approach
We listen and develop a plan unique to you
Treating women  throughout their lifespan

• A fun, friendly, nurturing environment
• Embrace the Biopsychosocial model of care
• Client centred therapy
• Cognitive Functional Therapy
• Connecting your mind to your body
• Centre of excellence in teaching positive functional movement for life
• Empowering women to maintain a strong well functioning body

POSITIVE - PASSIONATE - EMPOWERING

Meet the Team

Gill Smith

Women's Pelvic Health and Musculoskeletal Physio

• Professional Certificate in Conservative Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse ( Uni SA) (2022)
• Post Graduate Certificate Continence and Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation (Melb Uni) (2009)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (LaTrobe Uni) (1997)
• Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy (La Trobe Uni) (1987)
• Level 4 Pilates DMA certified
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Lecturer at Filex Fitness Industry Convention ( April 2014) – “Tips & Tricks to optimise pelvic floor function”
• Lecturer at Victorian Maternal Health Nurses Conference (2014) - "Pelvic Floor Health"

Gillian for the past twenty-three years has run Physio/Pilates/Women's Health clinics in bayside suburbs. In 2013 she constructed a purpose-built Women’s Health clinic in Edithvale close to the beach.

Gillian has a special focus on the link that exists in women who suffer from bladder leakage and low back pain, an inseparable condition. For over a decade Gillian has been using real-time ultrasound for assessment and client biofeedback rehabilitation. Many people are visual learners, and seeing their muscles working on the screen and connecting to these muscles correctly brings about immediate positive outcomes. Gillian uses real-time ultrasound on all muscle groups of the body and is very skilled in its use. She will rehabilitate shoulder, knee, hip, back, neck, and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction with real-time ultrasound biofeedback sessions.

Gillian has three postgraduate qualifications in Physiotherapy. In 1997 she spent a year studying musculoskeletal medicine. She refined her skills in assessing a musculoskeletal condition and developed advanced clinical reasoning skills to form a sound diagnosis and consequent treatment plan unique to that client. In 2009 she undertook six-month postgraduate training in Continence and Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation which taught her how to assess and rehabilitate issues associated with the bladder, bowel, and pelvic organs due to dysfunction with the pelvic floor muscles. Recently in 2022 she headed to the University of South Australia and completed a Professional Certificate of Conservative Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Advancing her Pelvic Health knowledge and clinical assessments and learned skills in the use of pessaries to help reduce the bother of pelvic organ prolapse.

Gillian integrates clinical expertise with evidence-based research, in the assessment and management of movement disorders associated with Musculoskeletal and Women’s Pelvic Health issues.

Gillian is passionate about Women’s Health and keenly continues to advance her knowledge in this field of study. She is a great advocate for lifelong learning. Gillian is also a mother and appreciates the challenges of work-life balance. This topic is often spoken about by the women in our fun, nurturing group exercise classes. Innovative Physio is developing into a community of women who are motivated to maintain a strong well-functioning body.