Artia is a women's health screening platform for elite female athletes and personnel, delivered by APA Titled Women's Health Physiotherapists. It asks the questions specific to women's health that most often go unasked and under-reported. Screening makes them routine, opens a line of communication where there was none, and makes sure the women who need help are the ones who receive it. Over time it shifts the culture, so women feel supported across every domain of their health and wellbeing.
In our research with elite Australian rugby union players, 60% reported leaking urine during training or on the field. Only 12.5% had ever told anyone at their club.
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Artia is a women's health screening platform founded by Kylie Faulks, an APA Titled Women's Health Physiotherapist and co-author of published Australian research on condition prevalence in elite athletes. It was first delivered inside a professional NRLW squad, and the same clinical core now serves women in other high-demand roles.
We screen the whole woman across five areas of women's health, review every screen clinically, and connect her to the care and education that follows. Not single symptoms in isolation.
Clinician led, evidence based, built for demanding environments.
Delivered by Kylie Faulks Women's Health Physiotherapy, Capital Women's Health Pty Ltd.
The conditions are the same. The context is not. Artia holds one clinical core, with the questions, thresholds and resources tuned to the population being screened. Nobody chooses their own configuration. It is set by the organisation and signed off clinically.
Professional and semi-professional squads across rugby league, rugby union, volleyball and gymnastics. Screening is framed around training load, contact, competition and the season.
Delivered as a club licence, with de-identified squad reporting and clinical follow-up for the individual.
Women in physically demanding occupational roles, 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.
Bladder, menstrual, pelvic, energy and bowel conditions are common among women in physically demanding roles. They affect availability, output and how long a woman stays in the role. Most are highly treatable. The problem has never been treatment. It is that these conditions go unspoken, so they are never identified and never addressed.
Silence does not mean the symptom is absent. It means she is managing it alone. Most self-manage, and the strategies they reach for carry their own cost. The barrier is not access to treatment. It is that nobody asks, and so nobody knows.
Screening removes the need for her to raise it first. It makes the question routine, and it makes the answer count.
Athletes rarely stop. They adapt around the symptom, quietly, using strategies that hide it rather than treat it. Fewer than one in ten have ever told a health professional. Two of the three most common strategies work directly against performance and recovery.
Manages the leak, not the cause. Often incompatible with playing kit, and a daily reminder that something is wrong.
Reduces leaking by risking dehydration and heat stress. Directly compromises performance, recovery and safety.
Emptying before and during sessions. Over time this can worsen urgency rather than settle it.
Bladder leakage is more common in female athletes than in women who do not train, and more common again in high-impact sport. It is not the price of playing. It is a treatable condition that elite training makes more likely, and that elite environments rarely ask about.
~35%report urinary incontinence, across sports
3.5–14.3%report stress urinary incontinence
3.3×the adjusted odds of stress incontinence
Australian research in servicewomen and veterans finds pelvic health concerns are common and frequently co-exist. The pattern differs from sport in an important way. Urinary symptom rates sit close to those of the general Australian female population rather than above them, so the argument here is not that service raises the rate. It is that these conditions are common, occupationally consequential, and not routinely asked about.
The screen is gated. Every athlete answers the core questions, and the fuller validated assessments open only where her answers warrant them. So the squad gives very little time, and no individual concern is missed.
A symptom-free athlete completes the screen in around 15 to 20 questions, minutes rather than a session. Gating means she is never asked to work through areas that do not apply to her.
An athlete with a concern is taken exactly as deep as her answers require, through validated instruments and a clinical review of every result. Little is asked, and nothing treatable is left unspoken.
Every instrument is validated and published, and every threshold is drawn from the literature. The evidence base and athlete resources are reviewed against current research each quarter.
The quarterly review runs to a defined schedule, with clinical sign-off on every change.
Self-management holds for a while, then it does not. Nearly one in five women report avoiding or stopping exercise because of urinary symptoms, and that rises sharply with severity. Yet after pelvic floor muscle training, women with stress incontinence are around eight times more likely to report being cured. The loss of availability, and of the women themselves, is almost entirely preventable once someone asks the question and acts on the answer.
Common is not normal. And almost all of it is treatable.
Artia asks every woman, privately and without stigma, across five areas of women's health, and puts a Women's Health Physiotherapist behind every answer. Women disclose to a private screen what they may not raise in person, and each result is triaged, given a pathway, and connected to treatment and education.
Core bladder and menstrual questions go to everyone, since these are the most under-reported. Deeper validated assessments for pelvic pain, energy and bowel unlock only where her own answers call for them. The result is a clinically reviewed picture of women's health across the whole group, which a standard medical or pre-employment intake does not set out to capture.
Everyone completes the private screen in five to eight minutes, at set points through the season or duty cycle, across all five areas.
Every result is clinically reviewed by a Women's Health Physiotherapist. Each woman receives an outcome, a pathway, matched resources and a follow up call where warranted.
Each woman receives her personal results against group and published figures. The organisation receives de-identified group results benchmarked against published research.
The screen is the beginning. What follows is the value: reporting at both individual and group level, a clear pathway into care, education matched to every result, a season of comparable data your organisation owns, and a clear read on where women's health is holding someone back.
Every woman receives a personal report: each area scored, benchmarked against her group and against published research, with her outcome, her pathway and her next step.
A de-identified group report: completion, outcome distribution and per area prevalence benchmarked against published research, so your organisation sees the whole picture at once.
Follow up by a Women's Health Physiotherapist where your tier includes it, or a clear, ready to forward clinical summary for your own doctor or physiotherapist.
The full library of evidence based women's health material, delivered automatically to each woman in the version matched to her result in every area.
Follow up screening and reporting over time, so change is measured against each woman's own baseline rather than judged from a single snapshot.
Structured, validated data collected once and analysed instantly, giving your organisation a longitudinal view of group health that builds year on year.
Alongside the validated clinical measures, Artia captures each woman's own account of how women's health affects her work and training. It shows plainly where symptoms are limiting output, availability or confidence, and what is holding her back.
Women's health issues are one of the quiet reasons women limit training, hide symptoms, or step away from the role altogether. Artia removes the barriers that keep them silent.
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.
Enquiries from clubs, programs, organisations and individuals are always welcome. Reach out for program tiers, timing and a walkthrough, and we will set up a scope call.
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