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- Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
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- Squeezy – the new physiotherapy App
- Even more reason to do your pelvic floor exercises!
- Urine smells like sugar puffs? Find out what could be causing it!
- Wanted! Good Women’s Health Physiotherapist
- The pros and cons of electrical stimulation
- Physiotherapy helps male pelvic floor problems
- Make prolapse symptoms better or even go away
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- Women’s health physiotherapy video – conditions related to pregnancy
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- Problems with your waterworks? Cut the caffeine!
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Category Archives: cystocele
Squeezy – the new physiotherapy App
Struggling to remember to do your pelvic floor muscle (pfm) exercises? What you may need is the Squeezy App. It’s been specially designed by a Women’s Health Physiotherapist to help increase the regularity with which women do their pfm exercises. … Continue reading
Posted in cystocele, enterocele, gynaecology, incontinence, obstetrics, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse, Pregnancy, rectocele, urge incontinence, urgency, urology, uterine prolapse, vaginal delivery, women's health
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Even more reason to do your pelvic floor exercises!
Some research published last November* makes alarming reading if you’ve had children. Its results show that women who have had a normal vaginal delivery: • are at double the risk of developing a pelvic organ prolapse (that’s where the womb, … Continue reading
Posted in childbirth, cystocele, enterocele, forceps, gynaecology, incontinence, instrumental delivery, long second stage, male health, menopause, Mothers, obstetrics, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse, Pregnancy, prostatectomy, rectocele, TURP, urge incontinence, urology, uterine prolapse, vaginal delivery, ventouse/vacuum extraction, women's health
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Urine smells like sugar puffs? Find out what could be causing it!
It’s not just bad bladder habits* or weak pelvic floor muscles that can cause problems with your waterworks. If you’re more thirsty than usual, have sweet-smelling wee, are losing weight (but not on a diet!) and feel tired and irritable, … Continue reading
Posted in bladder infection, bladder irritant, cystocele, dehydrat*, diabetes, frequency, incontinence, pelvic floor, urge incontinence, urgency, urinary infection, women's health
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The pros and cons of electrical stimulation
I think it’s such a shame when I treat women who’ve spent months using an electrical stimulator (elec stim) in the hope it will stop them leaking, when they’d have done so much better by simply doing pelvic floor muscle … Continue reading
Posted in bowel problems, cystocele, enterocele, frequency, incontinence, male health, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse, rectocele, urge incontinence, urgency, uterine prolapse, women's health
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Make prolapse symptoms better or even go away
Recently I’ve had a number of patients who have done really well with women’s health physiotherapy to treat their prolapse symptoms. They’re always surprised that it works, but they shouldn’t be – as there’s good evidence to show that strengthening … Continue reading
Posted in back pain, bowel problems, cystocele, enterocele, incontinence, menopause, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse, rectocele, sexual health, uterine prolapse, women's health
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