00:00A trampolinist Imogen Florian wants more athletes to feel comfortable talking about their pelvic
00:08health.
00:09Without that I guess you'll see a drop off in participation within sport and we had seen
00:13that in previous years.
00:15While Florian hasn't experienced issues herself, 80% of girls and women in high impact sports
00:21like gymnastics have and it's become a priority for many organisations to address.
00:29Pelvic health education has been non-existent in our current traditional education courses.
00:34We've been doing a whole lot of education with women's pelvic floor health physiotherapists
00:39where we've educated not only parents, athletes but also coaches.
00:44Around 1 in 3 women across all sports experience pelvic floor symptoms like urinary incontinence
00:51and a study of 4,500 symptomatic Australian women found half of those stopped physical
00:57activity because of it.
00:59So if we think about how important it is for women to be active and exercising for their
01:04health and also all the work that we're putting into trying to engage women and girls in sport
01:09we can see that this is a really big previously unrecognised barrier.
01:13Symptoms can affect anyone but talking about it is often the hardest part.
01:19We really want to make sure that we're picking that up early and we're de-stigmatising the
01:23whole thing so that the girls feel comfortable talking to us because there are a range of
01:27things we can do.
01:28Whilst these conditions are very common they're not normal, they're not something we just
01:32have to accept or tolerate and there are treatments that are available.
01:36Experts recommend seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist for the best treatment advice.
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