Urinary Incontinence

Approximately one third of all women will have bladder control problems at some stage in their lives. This increases for women over 40 years, when leakage problems become very common. Statistics show that many women will never seek help even though there are very good programmes available.

INP Medical Clinic has an effective programme to teach women how to help themselves with bladder and incontinence issues. It combines up-to-date dietary, behavioural and biofeedback methods to get the bests results. It’s a combination of decreasing any bladder irritants, training bladder control, strengthening and co-ordinating the pelvic floor muscles.

So what is Biofeedback?

It’s a method of providing people with information about their body. For incontinence, the nurse will use a very sensitive biofeedback device to teach women how to squeeze their pelvic floor muscles correctly. When women can do this correctly in the clinic, they use a home training device for a few weeks, to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles.

Because incontinence can be a sign that there are other problems with the woman’s body which need investigation, and because some types of  incontinence don’t respond to Biofeedback, we make sure that women see one of our doctors for a pre-screening.

After the screening, the women see a nurse. She understands incontinence and Biofeedback and is ready to coach women in getting control of their bladder. There are usually about 5 appointments altogether and it can take a month or so to see results. If this is a problem for you - call us today and make a start on getting your incontinence under control.

Other services:

Restore Physiotherapy is a specialist physio service with Sharon Wilson who has expertise in treating pelvic floor muscle weakness often resulting in urinary and/or faecal incontinence. Sharon is happy to see people young and old, male or female.
Other treatments are available for: 
• Bladder urgency (having to rush off to the toilet with little or no control),
• Bladder frequency (going often to the toilet usually for small amounts),
• Nocturia (going to toilet  often at night) and bed wetting
• Painful bladders
• Constipation and hemorrhoids
• Pain with sexual intercourse

Contact Sharon on:
Ph 03 547 9093
M 021 209 8814
info@restorephysio.co.nz
www.restorephysio.co.nz