Etonia is a specialist service offered by Core Concepts – Physiotherapy Center for pregnant women. Core Concepts – Physiotherapy Centre specialises in chronic spinal conditions such as low back pain, pre-and-post surgery rehabilitation.

The low back pain experienced by pregnant women or more accurately, Peri-Partum Pelvic Pains (PPPP) is a sub-speciality area of low back pain treatments. Common treatment options used for low-back pain such as electro-therapy (TENS and EMS), traction, drugs pose risks to the unborn child and mother. This leaves us with the application of advance manual therapy techniques, a speciality of with Core Concepts – Physiotherapy Center.

Diagnostic Medicine

Imagine if you have a bacterial infection. Usually it is enough to determine that you have a bacterial infection because a broad-spectrum antibiotic will take care of whichever bacteria is it. But what if you are allergic to broad-spectrum antibiotics. Now, the physician has to specifically identify the specific type of bacteria and prescribe the specific antibiotic. The second case naturally requires more analysis and thinking to diagnosis the specific condition than in the first case. Similarly for women with pelvic pains.

Electro-therapy, traction and drugs when used as the primary means of treatment which it does not require a deep understanding of the bio-mechanical problems as the effects are broad based. Advanced manual therapy on the other hand, requires a much deeper understanding of what is happening between the bones, joints, muscles and other connective tissues. With a narrower set of treatment options, we have to ‘think’ harder through the problems.