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- Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
- Sensible advice for new mums about pelvic floor exercises
- 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
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Physiotherapy In Pregnancy Essentials
- Vitamin D link to women’s health problems
- Patient recommends Pelvic Floor MOT
- Women’s health physiotherapy video – conditions related to pregnancy
- Women’s health physiotherapy video – gynaecological problems
- Keep calm and stay dry!
- The Baby & Toddler Friendly Show, Sheffield
- Problems with your waterworks? Cut the caffeine!
- Antenatal classes Sheffield: Essential physiotherapy for pregnancy
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Category Archives: bladder irritant
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
Posted in bladder irritant, childbirth, forceps, frequency, gynaecology, incontinence, instrumental delivery, long second stage, Mothers, obstetrics, pelvic floor, Pregnancy, rectus diastasis, sexual health, vaginal delivery, ventouse/vacuum extraction, women's health, Womens Health Physio on twitter
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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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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
Posted in Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Womens Health, bladder irritant, frequency, incontinence, menopause, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse, urge incontinence, urgency, women's health
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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’.
Posted in bladder irritant, frequency, incontinence, Mothers, pelvic floor, Pregnancy, urge incontinence, urgency, women's health
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Keep calm and stay dry!
It’s no joke! If you’re desperate to go to the loo and you panic (because you’re frightened you’ll leak) you can actually make it worse/more likely. If you jump up or rush, you put more pressure on your bladder and … Continue reading
Posted in bladder irritant, incontinence, pelvic floor, urge incontinence, urgency, women's health
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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
Posted in bladder irritant, frequency, incontinence, urge incontinence, urgency, women's health
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