A leading provider of women's postnatal & continence physiotherapy in Stockport.
We are now able to offer face-to-face women’s health physiotherapy appointments following an initial remote consultation and screening assessment. Please read our Visiting the Clinic leaflet for further information.
Our women’s health physiotherapist offers specialist postnatal and continence physiotherapy expertise for issues such as abdominal weakness, Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI), or discomfort after a tear or episiotomy.
Whether you gave birth recently or became a mum some months, or years, ago, these issues do not need to become part of life.
Our physiotherapy team are also experts in helping women with postnatal pelvic, back and hip pain, neck and shoulder pain related to breast feeding, lifting and carrying children, and helping mother’s return to their pre-pregnancy fitness.
A medical referral is not required, and we can quickly and easily arrange an initial consultation for you.
Specialist postnatal physiotherapy treatment
Our highly experienced practitioners offer a range of specialist and effective, evidence-based treatment options such as physiotherapy designed to encourage your abdomen to ‘knit’ back together.
We will also provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to administer your own perineal scar massage for the recovery of tears or episiotomy experienced during childbirth.
Babies and small children welcome!
Specialist urinary continence physiotherapy treatment
Our women’s health physiotherapy also offers specialist continence physiotherapy for the prevention and management of urinary incontinence or pelvic floor dysfunction.
Although these conditions can often occur following pregnancy and childbirth, a loss of bladder control can also happen to anyone as a culmination of constipation, heavy lifting, obesity, high impact sports, ageing, menopause, genetics or pelvic surgery.
Urinary incontinence symptoms and treatment
Urinary incontinence symptoms can range from a very small leak to loss of a large amount of urine. The most common kind of leakage is called Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI), but there are other types too:
Stress Urinary Incontinence – can include leak on coughing, laughing, bending, lifting, sneezing, running, jumping.
Urge Incontinence – having to rush to the toilet and leaking on the way, leak on urge or as sitting to empty your bladder.
Urge – frequently needing to empty your bladder (very often), always looking out for a toilet.
Prolapse – positioning of prolapse and bladder, weakness within the pelvic floor muscle.
Although relatively common, with approximately 1 in 3 women reporting symptoms of urinary incontinence or pelvic floor dysfunction, only 25% may seek or receive treatment.
Our specialist physiotherapists can equip you with the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to manage, treat, and often completely resolve continence problems.
Research shows that with the right input, 80% of patients with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) can expect a complete resolution of symptoms, so there is really no need to suffer in silence.
Loss of bladder control does not need to be tolerated or suffered, as specialist continence physiotherapy can usually help and a medical referral is not required.
You can book your specialist women’s health physiotherapy consultation online or, if you would like to know more about how our specialist continence and/or postnatal physiotherapy could help you, please contact us and one of our specialist physiotherapy team will be happy to discuss your needs and offer further advice, without obligation.
Your appointment
During your initial consultation you will be able to discuss your difficulties and the results you would like to achieve with one of our specialist continence physiotherapists.
The physiotherapist will also provide a vaginal examination to assess your pelvic floor and to ensure you are comfortably able to perform exercises, before discussing your own personalised exercise programme.
Initial consultation appointments are 45 minutes and we would request you wear comfortable, loose clothing for the purposes of the assessment by the physiotherapist.
Your personalised exercise programme
Your tailored physiotherapy exercise programme can effectively prevent and manage incontinence by showing you how to:
- Locate and effectively strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.
- Retrain your bladder for urge.
- Use bracing techniques called the KNACK to give support during activities where you would perhaps leak/lose urine.
Once you are feeling fully confident and comfortable in completing the exercises, they can usually be continued independently at home without the need for long term clinic intervention or visits.
Throughout your specialist postnatal or continence physiotherapy treatment, we will always work closely with our wider physiotherapy team and will refer you for further medical consultation, if required.
We also offer our clients specialist physiotherapy-led Pilates, as a gentle and effective method of stretching and strengthening core muscles involved in continence. Your specialist physiotherapist would be happy to discuss the potential benefits of this complementary therapy with you during your treatment.
Tamla Fox
Chartered Physiotherapist in Women’s Health
BSc (Hons), HCPC, MCSP, POGP
Tamla graduated in 2008 from Manchester University with a BSc Honours in Physiotherapy. A leading Senior Women’s Health Physiotherapist within the NHS, Tamla brings a unique wealth of specialist expertise in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions such as stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, bladder urgency and retraining and prolapse education.
Tamla Fox
Chartered Physiotherapist in Women’s Health
BSc (Hons), HCPC, MCSP, POGP
Tamla graduated in 2008 from Manchester University with a BSc Honours in Physiotherapy. A leading Senior Women’s Health Physiotherapist within the NHS, Tamla brings a unique wealth of specialist expertise in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions such as stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, bladder urgency and retraining and prolapse education.
If you are unsure whether our specialist women’s physiotherapy services could help you, please call us on 0161 426 0100 or email enquiries@marplephysio.com and Tamla will be happy to discuss your needs and offer her advice, without obligation.