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Our services

The services we provide at the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre are:

• Women’s Health Nurse clinics
• Information, support and referral on a wide range of women’s issues
• Counselling – general and lesbian
• Healing therapies
  
  • Naturopathy
  • Homeopathy
  • Massage
  • Aromatherapy massage
  • Reflexology
  • Ear candling
  • Angelic Reiki
• Advocacy
• Educative groups/sessions on women’s health issues
• Low cost contraception and health related products
• Space for women’s groups to meet.

Illawarra Women’s Health Centre has very part-time medical clinic hours devoted to women’s health matters – this is not a GP service. Women need to retain their own GP/Family doctor.

Our Women’s Health Clinics provide:

• Pap smears and breast checks
• Information on contraception
• Pregnancy testing and counselling
• Emergency contraception (Morning After Pill)
• Information on Menopause, sexuality, STDs, HIV/AIDS
• Abortion support, counselling and referral
• Vaccination protection from Cervical Cancer
• Incontinence assessment and treatment via the Pelvic Floor Chair.

A note on the Pelvic Floor Chair
As many as 1 in 3 women experience minor degrees of incontinence. Minor problems tend to worsen with time, childbirth and menopause.
With the Pelvic Floor Chair, there is now hope of restoring normal bladder function without surgery. The chair creates a therapeutic magnetic field that produces powerful stimulation to vital muscles that cannot be activated through manual pelvic floor exercises alone.

The program is simple, painless and non-invasive, consisting of 16 sessions where the client sits comfortably, fully clothed on the chair. Each treatment takes 20 minutes and is repeated twice a week for 8 weeks.

At July 2011, we have completed 12 programs with the chair and we, and the women who have taken part, are very pleased with the results.

Women who wish to participate in the program need to be assessed by their own doctor, who could refer you here after completing a Medicare Item No. 721 Care Plan.

NB. This treatment may not be suitable for all cases of incontinence.

If you wish to know more, please contact the Pelvic Floor Chair Coordinator by ringing 4255 6800. Download a Pelvic Floor Chair info sheet.