PostureFitting

🥇 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

Another amazing Ladies Lounge event here it the RCSI in Dublin, organised by the amazing woman that is Karen McGowan.
Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill here asking for input from women about the future national Women's Health strategy - amplifying women's voices by hopefully walking the walk as well as talking the talk!

ALERT: A non-b👀b-related post!
Instead, a celebration of a goal I never thought I would have - that of closing a road 🤔

Thank you to anyone who has bought tickets for the inaugural (finally!) women's rugby international in the Aviva stadium. Closing the road required 30,000 tickets to be sold & we smashed it! Hoping to break the 31K record for a women's game in the Aviva set by the soccer team - not the least bit competitive, us!!

Having been one of the OGs (original or old girls, choose carefully if I am within earshot!!) with a handful of spectators in our day, I am so proud to see this Green Wave rising, & ready to raise the metaphorical roof!

🏉☘️🏉 Let's gooooooooo!! ☘️🏉☘️

🥇May's (slightly belated but well worth the wait!) 1st on the 1st 🥇- our 1st PostureFitting event in Asia!
Thank you to Ngan Chung for the invitation (& excellent organisation) to present to the students & staff of Harrow International School Hong Kong on the impact of breast weight on their bodies & lives.

It became very clear to me when I first fell upon the gap in knowledge and skills around breast weight management that this lack of awareness is a global issue, affecting the quality of life of girls & women in all parts of the world. We are proud that PostureFitting's unique & pioneering approach - to educate, empower, enlighten - has reached far beyond its original Irish base, & can now include Asia.

This map shows the locations of:
💃🏿 events at which we have raised awareness & encouraged signposting, including our latest connection in Hong Kong;
👙 therapists who have attended our Gals against Gravity workshop, diving deeper into why we go Beyond the Bra;
👀 providers of the PostureFitting service, our practical pioneers of uplifting breast weight, both inside & out.

🌐But there are still gaps! To help us in our global goal, if you are interested in learning more about breast weight management for your community (& especially if you are a healthcare professional), please contact us on www.posturefittingphysio.com

💃To be uplifted to feel, move, look better, each of which affects the other, contact our PostureFitting Partners:

ENG: Absolute Womens Health
NZ: Align and Uplift
ENG: Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellness
IRL: Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
ENG: Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
IRL: Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
ENG: (Coming soon to) PhysioFast Online
IRL: Posture Matters
ENG: North Yorkshire Physiotherapy
IRL: West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
ENG: Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
SCOT: The Youth Sports Educator
ENG: Women’s Rehab Collective

Ever wondered why we put our hands on our heads when we are trying to get our breath back? Whether that is as an athlete (as per Ben Spencer of Bath RFC after he had sprinted the length of the pitch to score today - thanks for the inspo for the post Ben!) or someone having an asthma flare, it is because this position lifts our chest & mid/upper back up into a position that facilitates better breathing. And that means you'll recover quicker from whatever situation prompted you to do it.

It may seem blindingly obvious, but possibly also obvious that we overlook it, but better breathing = better overall health and wellbeing. There is no downside to breathing better. It's a fairly simple win.

You don't need to be either an asthmatic or an athlete to help yourself to breathe better, & no, I'm not suggesting you walk around with your hands on your head all day. But do stop & think for a minute about how you can adopt that lifted position more often in your day.

Here's one way: lift your chest.
Just a small bit, not so much that you hyperextend your low back, just enough to overcome gravity pushing your ribcage down. Because that is what gravity will do unless we engage our brain & our body to overcome it.
So, T**s Up Gals!👀

Contact us to find out how to support yourself internally, by using your body, with other such titbits🤪, as well as externally with optimal bra-fitting.
The internal bit is what makes PostureFitting different from a retail bra-fitting. We teach you how to DIY for bra-fitting, but we go beyond the bra to also include your brain & your body.

www.posturefittingphysio.com

Be uplifted with a PostureFitting in any of the following locations:

🌹Absolute Womens Health
🥝Align and Upliftt
🌹Body In Balance Physiotherapy & Women’s Wellnesss
☘️Castlebridge Physiotherapy & Orthotic Clinic
🌹Claire Gurney Physiotherapy
☘️Monkstown Physiotherapy Clinic
🌹North Yorkshire Physiotherapy
☘️Posture Matters
🛡️The Youth Sports Educator
🌹Weybridge & Walton Physiotherapy
☘️West Limerick Physiotherapy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
🌹Women’s Rehab Collective