Treatment for continence symptoms is offered in several departments within Edinburgh Community Physiotherapy Service.
Currently the departments offering this service are:
- Pennywell All Care Centre
- Leith Community Treatment Centre
- Sighthill Health Centre
These locations can vary due to staffing changes.
Conditions which can be helped include:
- Female stress urinary incontinence (leakage on coughing, sneezing, laughing etc)
- Female urgency, frequency and nocturia (needing to empty your bladder urgently and often and getting up at least twice overnight to go to the loo)
- Symptoms of mild prolapse (sensation of something coming down)
- Weak pelvic floor after childbirth including any of the above symptoms
- Dyspareunia/Vaginismus (pain with intercourse due to involuntary pelvic floor muscle spasm).
The service can be accessed by referral from any of the following:
- Self Referral
- GPs
- Health Professional
Facilities/Treatments:
- Clients will be seen in private treatment rooms
- All clients will be individually assessed and a treatment programme designed to suit their needs.
What resources are there to support my health condition?
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You may also find useful information to help you manage your condition on our Resources to Support your Condition page.
