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Brigitte Egan
B. Comm B. Phty (Hons) APAM
Brigitte Egan is an experienced Women’s Health Physiotherapist and director of The Women’s Health Project.
Brigitte has a depth of experience in treating conditions specific to the female population, including pelvic health (incontinence, prolapse and sexual dysfunction), pre and postnatal care, menopause and period pain / endometriosis.
In her clinical work, Brigitte provides management of:
Pregnancy: pelvic floor and birth prep, back and pelvic girdle pain, safe exercise in pregnancy
Postnatal: pelvic floor rehab, cesarean rehab, abdominal separation
Bladder: urinary incontinence, urinary frequency, urgency, bed wetting
Bowels: constipation, faecal urgency, bowel incontinence
Prolapse: conservative management including pessary prescription
Pelvic pain: endometriosis, period pain, pain with intercourse, bladder and rectal pain
Brigitte graduated from the Australian Catholic University, North Sydney with first class honours in a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. She has since completed additional training in women’s health physiotherapy through the Women’s Health Training Associates. Brigitte started her career in a graduate training position at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick before working as a maternity ward physiotherapist at one Sydney’s largest maternity hospitals, The Mater, North Sydney. Brigitte has since worked as a women’s health physiotherapist in private practice and is a tutor for the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Women’s Life Stages and Women’s Pelvic Health courses.