Why these treatments are included in our Menopause Programme

Menopause can affect much more than your menstrual cycle. Changes in hormones can coincide with changes in muscle strength, body composition, pelvic-floor function, sleep, energy, skin and general wellbeing.

Our programme combines gentle, manageable exercise with selected wellness therapies to support some of the areas that can become particularly important during and after menopause.

🚶 10-Minute Incline Walk

Cardiovascular Health: Regular walking supports heart and circulatory health—an increasingly important focus as women move through menopause.

Bone Health: Walking is a weight-bearing activity, helping provide the mechanical stimulus that bones need to maintain strength. Adding a gentle incline can increase the challenge without requiring high-impact exercise.

Weight & Metabolic Health: Menopause is commonly associated with changes in body composition and where fat is stored. Incline walking provides accessible cardiovascular exercise and increases energy expenditure.

Lower-Body Strength: Walking uphill places greater demand on the glutes, calves and leg muscles than level walking, helping maintain functional strength.

Mood & Wellbeing: Regular physical activity can support mood, stress management, sleep and overall wellbeing.

Why we include it: We want exercise to feel achievable. Ten minutes gives us a manageable starting point that can gradually be progressed as fitness and confidence improve.

🔴 Red Light Therapy

Skin Health: Red and near-infrared light are studied for their effects on cellular activity and collagen production. This may help support skin quality, texture and elasticity—areas that can change as oestrogen levels decline.

Hair & Scalp: Certain forms of red-light photobiomodulation have evidence for supporting hair growth in some types of hair thinning, making it an interesting option when hair changes occur around menopause.

Muscle & Joint Recovery: Red and near-infrared light are widely investigated for their potential role in exercise recovery, tissue repair and reducing some types of musculoskeletal discomfort.

Circulation: Photobiomodulation can influence nitric-oxide signalling and local blood flow, which may contribute to some of its recovery effects.

Relaxation & Wellbeing: A red-light session also provides a quiet, non-invasive period to slow down and focus on recovery.

Why we include it: Rather than presenting red light as a treatment for menopause itself, we use it to support skin, recovery, circulation and general wellbeing—areas that many women tell us become more important during menopause.

🌸 EMS Pelvic Chair

Pelvic Floor Strength: Hormonal changes, ageing and previous pregnancy or childbirth can all contribute to weakening of the pelvic-floor muscles. The chair uses electromagnetic muscle stimulation to produce repeated pelvic-floor contractions.

Bladder Control: Strengthening the pelvic floor may help women experiencing symptoms such as stress urinary incontinence, including leakage when coughing, sneezing, exercising or laughing.

Pelvic Support: The pelvic floor plays an important role in supporting the bladder, bowel and reproductive organs as well as contributing to core stability.

Sexual Function: Pelvic-floor strength is associated with aspects of sexual function, and improving pelvic-floor muscle function may help some women with sensation and sexual wellbeing.

Non-Invasive: Treatment is performed while sitting fully clothed, with no internal procedure and no strenuous exercise required.

Why we include it: Pelvic-floor health can easily be overlooked during menopause. This gives us a simple way of placing greater emphasis on an important group of muscles that women may otherwise struggle to exercise effectively.

⚡ EMSZero Abdomen

Core Strength: EMSZero produces powerful involuntary muscle contractions in the abdominal muscles, providing an intensive stimulus to the core without conventional abdominal exercises.

Maintaining Muscle: From midlife onwards, preserving muscle becomes increasingly important. Menopause can accelerate unfavourable changes in muscle mass and body composition, making resistance exercise particularly valuable.

Body Composition Support: Your EMSZero also combines electromagnetic muscle stimulation with RF. It can therefore be positioned as an adjunct to exercise and healthy lifestyle habits for people working on abdominal muscle tone and body composition.

Posture & Everyday Movement: Strong abdominal and trunk muscles contribute to stability, posture and everyday activities.

Confidence: Changes around the abdomen are a common concern during menopause. Our approach focuses not simply on appearance, but on building a stronger, more functional core.

Why we include it: EMSZero complements the exercise component of the programme by giving the abdominal muscles an additional targeted stimulus.

🏋️ Gentle Strength Exercise

Protecting Muscle: Muscle mass and strength naturally decline with age, and the menopause transition can contribute to changes in muscle and body composition. Resistance exercise is one of the most important tools we have for maintaining strength.

Bone Health: Strength and resistance training place controlled stress on the skeleton, helping support bone health—particularly important as declining oestrogen is associated with accelerated bone loss.

Metabolic Health: Maintaining muscle supports glucose metabolism, physical function and long-term metabolic health.

Balance & Independence: Stronger legs, hips and core can improve balance and make everyday activities such as climbing stairs, carrying shopping and getting up from a chair easier.

Body Composition: Strength training helps preserve or build lean tissue and can form an important part of managing the body-composition changes many women notice around menopause.

Confidence: We introduce exercises gradually, concentrating on good technique rather than pushing people beyond their ability.

Why we include it: Our aim isn't to exhaust you. It's to introduce safe, achievable strength training that you can continue long after the programme has finished.

The idea behind the programme

Rather than focusing on one symptom or one treatment, our Menopause Programme takes a whole-body approach:

Incline walking → cardiovascular fitness, movement & energy expenditure

Red light therapy → recovery, skin & wellbeing

EMS Pelvic Chair → pelvic-floor strength & bladder support

EMSZero abdomen → targeted core muscle stimulation

Gentle strength exercise → muscle, bone health & long-term function

The aim is to help women understand what their body may need differently during menopause and give them practical tools to support their strength, confidence, fitness and wellbeing.

Our programme is designed to support health and wellbeing during menopause and is not a replacement for medical assessment, HRT or other treatment recommended by your healthcare professional.