PELVIC FLOOR RECOVERY BOOKS

Welcome to my book website. My name is Sue Croft and I am a registered physiotherapist with a special interest in pelvic health and I have worked in Women’s Health for 37 years. I graduated from the University of Queensland in 1977 with a physiotherapy degree and I am grateful that I have had a wonderful career helping improve the quality of life for many people. 

You may know this website very well or have found it when looking for my old Sue Croft Physiotherapist website which has been closed due to the sale of my private practice. 

I have brought much of the free information over to my book website, so that people from around the world are still able to continue to access information to help any problems they may be having with their bladder, bowel, prolapse or pelvic floor. Pelvic pain and pre and post-op surgical information is also available, as well as some children’s bladder and bowel health information.

Reading a book is no substitute for an individual consultation with a pelvic health physiotherapist, but you can learn so much and make so many pro-active changes and when you see improvements from such small alterations in habits and behaviours, it is heartening. 

I am very proud that over 20,000 of my books have been sold to all parts of the world. Some of the grateful comments from women from overseas and in Australia have reassured me that continuing to revise and update the books is a ‘forever’ thing for me to do.

I first wrote my books in 2011 and have regularly revised them to keep up with the latest evidence. My books are vitally important for women & their pelvic floor management, especially following childbirth and gynaecological and colorectal surgery. 

Pelvic Floor Essentials (Edition 4) is for girls and women who haven’t had a baby; who are thinking of getting pregnant; who are pregnant; post-partum (had their baby) or are peri-menopausal or post menopausal. 

Pelvic Floor Recovery: Physiotherapy for Gynaecological and Colorectal Repair Surgery (Edition 5) is definitely for those women contemplating surgery or who are undergoing surgery or who have had surgery (repair operations or a hysterectomy). It is also for women who are post-menopausal and may not have had surgery or need it, but do not need all the pregnancy and childbirth information in Essentials. If you buy this one just skip the surgery pages. 

Beckenbodenrehabilitation is the German translation of Pelvic Floor Recovery Surgery Book Edition 4.

My books will help you learn about:

• Your pelvic floor muscles including What is levator avulsion?
• Good bladder function including treatment of the overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence, good bladder habits, nocturia and how to avoid urinary tract infection. 
• Good bowel function including treating constipation, incomplete evacuation, bowel pain, treatment of bloating and faecal incontinence.
• Prolapse and pessary management
• Self-management of pelvic pain including painful periods, endometriosis, dyspareunia (painful, non-pleasurable sex) 
• Hysterectomy or Gynaecological and Colorectal repair surgery preparation, the in hospital-stay, the post-op course and rehab into the future
• How to prevent failure of repair surgery.
• How to be confident with exercising when you have pelvic floor issues.

I am a passionate advocate for women’s health issues, and I am active on Instagram and Facebook and I write a blog on pelvic floor dysfunction, bladder, bowel, prolapse and pelvic pain problems and solutions.

I was lucky enough to be awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to community health as a physiotherapist in 2023.This was a wonderful honour and a platform to further promote the importance of good pelvic health for women, men and children.