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A hot, hard patch in one breast, a baby who will want feeding again within the hour, and a morning that has already gone sideways. Our women’s health physiotherapists work on blocked ducts and mastitis at 13 Campbell Street, right in the middle of the village, using therapeutic ultrasound and gentle hands-on care. Say the word mastitis when you ring and we will move things around to see you today if we can.
Shivering hard enough that you cannot stop it. A temperature past 38.5 and still rising. Redness travelling across the breast, or forming streaks. A galloping pulse, cold clammy skin, or a foggy head and the feeling you might pass out. Any one of those is an emergency department now, or 000.
A same-day GP appointment is the right call for fever, body aches or that run-over flu feeling, for a patch of breast that is red, hot and tender, or for cracked nipples on a breast that has turned red and painful. Antibiotics matter here, and putting them off is how an abscess starts. Ring the GP again if a day of tablets has changed nothing, or if a hard lump refuses to shift or begins to feel like it holds fluid.
We treat alongside that medical care, never instead of it. If you are unsure which door to knock on first, ring the studio and ask.
Mums arrive here from Yarraville, Seddon, Kingsville, Spotswood, Newport, Williamstown, Footscray and West Footscray, usually with a capsule in one hand and a morning that has already been too long behind them. The studio is set up for exactly that arrival: room for the pram, a front desk that knows what you are walking in with, private treatment rooms, and nobody blinking at a feed or a cry mid-appointment.
Campbell Street also means you are not crossing the West Gate with a newborn to be seen. For most of the inner west that is ten minutes each way rather than an hour, which matters a great deal on a day when you are already sore, tired and watching the clock between feeds.
Mastitis care sits inside the wider women’s health physiotherapy work we do here, so the physiotherapist treating your breast today is the same one who can look at your pelvic floor, your abdominal separation and your return to running once the crisis has passed. You will not have to start again with a stranger.
Therapeutic ultrasound, on the first visit. A warm treatment head passes over the affected area, and the sound waves ease inflammation and help the blockage clear. It is painless, it takes a quiet few minutes in a private room, and you can feed straight afterwards.
Hands that know how gentle to be. Light lymphatic technique, not deep massage. Pressing hard on an inflamed breast tends to make it angrier, which surprises almost everyone, because working the lump out is exactly what the internet and a well-meaning relative will have told you to do. Part of the appointment is being shown what actually helps.
Feeding sorted, not stopped. Keep feeding or expressing. Your physiotherapist will adjust positions and attachment so the sore area drains more easily, and nothing we use stops you feeding the moment you leave.
Straight talk about the medical side. If your symptoms point to infection you will hear it plainly, with a same-day GP recommendation, and we keep treating alongside whatever is prescribed. For the fuller picture of what the treatment involves and what the evidence says, read our guide to mastitis treatment
Bring the baby. Come as you are.
Mastitis at Yarraville is treated by our women’s health physiotherapists, each with postgraduate pelvic health training and a working week full of pregnancy, birth recovery and early feeding. Whatever state you turn up in, they have seen the same morning many times over.
Sorted before you have to ask:
When the acute part is behind you, the recovery has somewhere to go in the same building: postnatal physiotherapy with the same team, Mums and Bubs classes with the baby beside you, and Prenatal Pilates if there is another one on the way.
Ring 03 8319 9945 and say it is mastitis. The front desk will do the rest. Booking online works too, and either way, bring the baby.
All for One, 13 Campbell Street, Yarraville. Our women’s health physiotherapists use therapeutic ultrasound and gentle hands-on technique for blocked ducts and mastitis. Ring 03 8319 9945, tell the desk it is mastitis, and we will find you the earliest time we have.
Yes. The Yarraville studio is minutes from Footscray, West Footscray, Seddon, Kingsville, Spotswood, Newport and Williamstown, which is where most of our inner west mums travel from. No referral is needed to book.
Mastitis bookings are prioritised at Yarraville and we aim for same-day wherever the diary allows. Phone rather than email if it is today, because with this condition today genuinely beats Thursday.
Always. Feeding, settling and parking the pram beside you are ordinary parts of a visit here, and nobody will hurry you through any of it.
Often both. A fever, body aches, or a breast that has not clearly turned a corner in a day are all reasons to get a GP appointment, since infection needs antibiotics and putting that off is what leads to an abscess. We keep treating alongside the tablets rather than in place of them.
Yes. It is a physiotherapy appointment, so extras cover applies and we run HICAPS on the spot. Medicare Care Plans are welcome, and you do not need a referral from anyone to make the booking.
Women's Health Physiotherapy - 21/08/2026
Women's Health Physiotherapy - 21/08/2026
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