About Women's Health Physiotherapy

Our woman’s health physiotherapy service provides specialist care for woman with bladder, bowel and pelvic floor disorders.

We offer assessment, advice, education and treatment for a number of conditions including:

• Urinary and Faecal incontinence

• Prolapse

• Pelvic floor weakness

• Birth related pelvic floor conditions, such as OASI

• Chronic pelvic pain

• Dyspareunia, Vulvodynia and Vaginismus

On your first assessment we will take a full history of bladder and bowel symptoms, obstetric and gynaecological history as well as your general health.  We will ask how your symptoms are affecting your lifestyle and discuss your rehab goals with you.

If and as required, we will assess your posture and breathing patterns. With consent we will perform an internal pelvic floor exam to enable an accurate diagnosis.  All findings will be discussed and an individual rehab program given to you.

Information Leaflets

Please download the leaflets below and try the exercises and advice, if further help is required please self-refer yourself to physiotherapy.

Pelvic Floor Health

 

Useful Links

Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (POGP)

Your Pelvic Floor

Squeezy pelvic health app

Pelvicroar - Pelvic health

The antenatal and postnatal time in a woman’s life is often full of excitement; however some ladies experience discomfort or have trouble with daily tasks due to the changes that have taken place in their body.

We recognise the impact on a woman's body, discomfort in your back and pelvis, deconditioning of muscles, urinary leakage are all common but not normal.

Our outpatient physiotherapy service provides care for both the antenatal and postnatal woman.  After a thorough assessment a treatment plan is agreed. This may include education, individual exercise programmes, manual therapy and/or exercise classes.

Conditions we treat include:

• Low back pain

• Pelvic pain

• Separation (diverification) of rectus abdominis muscle.

• Urinary incontinence

All these conditions can improve or resolve with Physiotherapy. Please look at or download our leaflets and try the exercises and advice.

Useful Information and Links

Pregnancy and post-natal advice .pdf [pdf] 1MB

Antenatal Exercises.docx [docx] 2MB

Postnatal Exercises.pdf [pdf] 946KB

DRAM.docx [docx] 8MB

Post c-section.pdf [pdf] 571KB

Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (POGP)

Pelvic Partnership

If further input is required you can self-refer to physiotherapy or ask your GP or midwife to.