The service specialises in:

  • Bladder and bowel dysfunction in women and men
  • Children with 'giggle' incontinence and bladder and bowel lifestyle advice
  • Musculoskeletal conditions arising before and until six weeks after delivery
  • Third- and fourth-degree tears after delivery
  • Post-operative care after breast surgery
  • Advice, support and guidance 

We provide antenatal and post-natal assessment treatment and advice for conditions such as:

  • Posture in pregnancy, positions of ease, core stability exercises and gait rehabilitation 
  • Self-management and safe exercise in pregnancy
  • Abdominal muscle weakness
  • Diastasis recti or divarication rectus abdominus muscles (DRAM)
  • Pelvic girdle pain (PGP)
  • Painful coccyx (coccydynia)
  • Bladder and bowel continence
  • Pelvic floor muscle weakness or damage

Following assessment and recommendation by your clinician, you can purchase:

  • Walking aids
  • Support belts
  • Hot/cold packs
  • Pressure balls
  • Continence probes

Antenatal back pain class

This is a video containing advice and exercises to help with Ante natal or Post natal pain.

If you have any concerns, please contact the Physiotherapy Department.

Children

We can help with 'giggle incontinence', and provide bladder and bowel lifestyle advice

Adults

Bladder and bowel dysfunction in women

We provide physiotherapy for conditions such as:

  • Urinary stress incontinence
  • Urinary urge incontinence
  • Pelvic floor weakness
  • Post natal perineal trauma
  • Pelvic organ prolapse 

Dyspareunia and vaginismus

We provide treatments and advice on:

  • Pelvic floor exercises
  • Anal sphincter exercises
  • Defecation dynamics
  • Lifestyle advice
  • Bladder retraining
  • Neuromuscular stimulation and biofeedback
  • Intra-vaginal devices and other adjuncts

Breast cancer

We provide help with:

  • Shoulder mobility problems post breast surgery
  • Management of cording 

Bladder and bowel dysfunction in men

We provide help with:

  • Urology: post-surgical care and advice
  • Pelvic floor muscle re-education
  • Anal sphincter exercises
  • Biofeedback and neuromuscular stimulation
  • Defecation dynamics

Location

Great Western Hospital - Women's Health Outpatients Department, second floor (please see Floor plan). 

Opening times

Day Times
Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm
Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays Closed

Contact

Tel: 01793 604821