If you've hit your mid-40s and your hips are stiff getting out of the car, your shoulders ache every morning, and something hurts in a way it never used to, you've probably had one of two responses. Either you were fobbed off entirely, or you were told it's the menopause and left there. Neither one gives you anything to do. Joint pain rises sharply through perimenopause, the mechanism is hormonal, and as of 2024 it has a proper clinical name. What to do about it is where most

If you're in your 40s or 50s and you've started leaking when you sneeze, feeling heaviness in your pelvis, or noticing urgency that wasn't there before, the chance that your pelvic floor is involved is high. According to Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists polling, over 60% of UK women have at least one symptom of poor pelvic floor health. And 69% of those women have never been spoken to by an NHS professional about what to do about it. Most women who mention sy