Pelvic Health and Continence Service

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

Location

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

Opening times

Contact

Tel: 01793 604821