Our paediatric continence physiotherapists can help to improve bladder and bowel control in children.
Your child’s assessment and treatment will be evidence based and sensitive towards the care of children and families.
Conditions that physiotherapy may help to manage include:
Constipation / soiling
Day wetting
Frequent urination
Urinary urgency (and urge incontinence)
Bed wetting
Assessment may be conducted using a real-time ultrasound scan through the abdomen.
Depending on the findings of an assessment, treatment may include:
Education of parents and child
Toileting programs
Pelvic floor muscle training / relaxation
Bio feedback
Teaching correct emptying techniques (bladder and bowel)
Bedwetting alarm programs
Liaison with kindergartens and schools
Referral to medical or other specialist and services
Children with problems that have been present for more than six months duration may be eligible for an EPC program from your GP to subsidise visits to a continence Physiotherapist.
Questions or concerns? Please get in touch…