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Home » Women’s Health – The Pelvic Floor

June 15, 2018  |  By Dr Brad McIntosh In Uncategorized

Women’s Health – The Pelvic Floor

Fixing Below the Belt

Physiotherapy, combined with medical management is beneficial in treating:

  1. Incontinence                                                        
  2. Prolapse
  3. Chronic Pelvic Pain
  4. Low Back Pain
  5. Pregnancy- Related Pain

Physiotherapy Treatment

A Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist will:

  • Work as a team with other health practitioners
  • Assess symptoms via thorough specific questioning
  • Assess all aspects of PF muscle function per vaginum
  • Assess posture and lumbopelvic muscle function
  • Establish a clinical diagnosis
  • Educate and explain using models and illustrations
  • Set individual treatment goals in collaboration with the patient
  • Initiate use of appropriate, reliable and valid outcome measurement tools
  • Provide effective treatment based on individual assessment findings, with progression on exercises likely to resolve the symptoms without surgery or medications
  • Continue treatment with supervision, motivation, feedback (verbal and/or EMG biofeedback) and adherence strategies
  • Provide successful treatment to women of any age
  • Regularly communicate with the referring GP or specialist regarding assessment findings, progress and outcomes.

What are the symptoms?

Bladder Symptoms include:

  • Leak urine with coughs, sneezes, exercise or on the way to the toilet
  • Pass urine frequently
  • Rush to the toilet – urgency
  • Get up twice or more at night to pass urine
  • Wet the bed when asleep
  • Feel their bladder is not completely empty
  • Poor urine flow
  • Strain to get bladder to empty
  • Frequent urinary tract infections

Bowel Symptoms Include:

  • Leakage from the bowel with the urge to open their bowels
  • Urgency with the urge to open their bowels
  • Leakage from the bowel on passing wind
  • Unable to control wind
  • Straining to empty their bowels

At Sydney Physiotherapy Solutions our highly qualified physiotherapists specialise in the assessment, treatment and prevention of neuromusculoskeletal injuries.

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Author

Dr Brad McIntosh

Although he is one of the most experienced and sought after Doctors of Physiotherapy in Australia, Brad makes all his patients feel like they are #1.

He also leads his team of caring reception staff and expert physiotherapists with the same degree of passion, which is why Sydney Physio Solutions has built the outstanding reputation it has.

Managing Director BSc (ExSci) MPT (Physio) DPT (Physio) CSCS APAM MSMA

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