ARTIA
artios · from the Greek · complete, whole
Complete women's health screening.
Artia
Welcome to Artia, a women's health screening platform designed by women's health physiotherapists to find the conditions that hold female athletes back, and to connect each woman with the support she needs.
Women's health conditions such as bladder leakage, pelvic pain, period symptoms and under-fuelling are common in female athletes and affect training, recovery and performance. They are rarely screened for, because high-performance programs seldom have the time or the specialist expertise to ask. Artia asks the questions, reviews every answer with a women's health physiotherapist, and works alongside the support staff so that what an athlete tells us leads to support.
Five areas of women's health
Each is common in female athletes, affects training and performance, and is rarely asked about. Each is screened with a validated measure and connects to support and education.
Bladder
Leakage, urgency and other urinary symptoms. Rarely raised, and pelvic floor physiotherapy is the first-line treatment.
Menstrual
Cycle regularity, pain and symptoms, and how they interact with training and performance.
Pelvic
Pelvic pain and pelvic floor symptoms that affect comfort, training and everyday life.
Energy
Under-fuelling and the signs of RED-S, which affect performance, bone health and recovery.
Bowel
Bowel symptoms and continence. Easily overlooked, and rarely asked about.
Athletes and squads
Professional, semi-professional and developing programs. Screening is framed around training load, contact, competition and the season.
Delivered as a licence, with de-identified squad reporting and clinical follow-up for the individual.
Servicewomen
Women in Defence and the emergency services, where load carriage, field conditions, deployment and shift patterns shape both the risk and the reporting. Screening is framed around duty and readiness rather than a season.
In development. The clinical core is the same; the population profile and resources are being authored and clinically signed off.
Other high-demand roles
The model is not limited to a fixed set of groups. Wherever women perform under demanding physical or operational load, and health concerns often go unspoken, the same clinical core applies.
New settings are added as each population profile is authored and clinically signed off.
Screen, review, report
The screen is private and takes five to eight minutes. A woman can say online what she might not say in person, and what she says is acted on.
Screen
Every woman completes the private screen at set points through the season or duty cycle, across all five areas.
Review
A Women's Health Physiotherapist reviews every screen. Each woman receives her results and matched resources, and a follow up call and pathway where the screen indicates one.
Report
Each woman receives her personal results against squad and published figures. The organisation receives de-identified group reporting.
Keeping women in the roles they have earned, by honouring the female body
Our mission is to shift the culture in women's sport and high performance, so that women feel supported across every domain of their health and wellbeing, and women's health concerns never become silent barriers to performance.
We make space to identify and remove the health barriers that push women out of elite sport and demanding roles. One screen, one clinical team, one standard held across the whole group.
Screen the whole group. Treat the individual.