Category Archives: frequency

Sensible advice for new mums about pelvic floor exercises

There’s a lot of good evidence which recommends pelvic floor muscle (pfm) training to avoid incontinence during and/or after pregnancy.  Yet not many women know about it, and not many are doing them!  A recent survey by health professionals revealed … Continue reading

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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

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Wanted! Good Women’s Health Physiotherapist

How do you find a good women’s health physiotherapist?  It’s hard, given how reluctant women are to discuss their bladder problems.  In practice women are unlikely to make personal recommendations telling people they’ve seen a good private women’s health physiotherapist … Continue reading

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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

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Physiotherapy helps male pelvic floor problems

It’s not just women who benefit from pelvic floor muscle training, as men can also suffer from problems with their waterworks.  In fact, up to 1 in 10 men may develop problems with bladder control and/or sexual function.  The risk increases … Continue reading

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Patient recommends Pelvic Floor MOT

A satisfied patient explains how women’s health physiotherapy with Vicky has cured her postnatal urinary incontinence and recommends all women should have a ‘Pelvic Floor MOT’.

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Women’s health physiotherapy video – gynaecological problems

Vicky explains what women’s health physiotherapists do and how they can help women with problems with their waterworks, bowels or pelvic floor cure, improve, manage or avoid getting their symptoms in the first place.   See my video on pregnancy … Continue reading

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Problems with your waterworks? Cut the caffeine!

I see a lot of patients who suffer from frequency (needing to go to the toilet to have a wee more than 5-6 times a day), urgency (that overwhelming desire to go to the toilet which cannot be put off) … Continue reading

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