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Health & Wellbeing Helping take back control Health & Wellbeing More than five million Australians have some form of incontinence, or poor bladder or bowel control; 80 per cent of those affected are women but most don’t ask for professional help. Incontinence, however, can often be cured, or at the very least, better managed. The first step is to talk to a health professional. Mona Vale Physiotherapist Trish Orr specialises in women’s health with a focus on helping women overcome incontinence and pelvic floor issues as well as avoiding surgery. The director of Epic Life Physio identified a need for expertise in this area after having her first child 15 years ago. “A number of mums from my mother’s group were discussing leakage issues while exercising, coughing, sneezing and even lifting their babies… I was amazed at how many women thought there was nothing they could do about it,” Trish said. It was around this time that Trish ventured into specialist training for women’s health Trish said a large percent of women and a smaller percentage of men who present themselves at the practice with back and hip pain have pelvic floor issues. “The discussion during assessment for hip and back pain often leads to the revelation that they have incontinence issues, weak pelvic floor or bladder symptoms,” she said. “The health of the pelvic floor muscles impact many aspects of everyday life so we stress the importance of a detailed assessment to determine the primary issue and provide the most effective treatment options available.” Treatment can range from adjusting volumes of fluid intake and timing through the day, bladder training strategies, exercises or electromagnetic stimulation. “Previously we have relied on TENS units or lengthy and tedious exercise regimes that required months to show results,” Trish said. “Fortunately with technological evolution we now have treatment options that will deliver better results and faster in many cases.” Trish said Epic Life Physio, through the Shockwave Institute of Australia, has the Pelvic Toner Chair offering an effective treatment over weeks, not months, utilising a variety of programs to treat their specific diagnosis “head-on”. The practice is the first and only on the northern beaches to offer the treatment whereby a patient sits fully clothed on a chair that sends electromagnetic pulses to the pelvic floor muscles to create micro contractions of the muscles – hundreds of times a minute for the duration of the 30 minute session. Trish says the chair does thousands of the exercises per session that many women and men simply don’t have time for in their daily routines. Her practice’s first patient to take advantage of the new technology to tackle pain, weakness and sensory loss was Kathryn Hodgins, 60, who had struggled with pelvic floor issues and bladder incontinence for a number of years. Kathryn told Pittwater Life: “After six sessions I have gone from being unable to drive from Lake Macquarie to Sydney without stopping multiple times to use the toilet, to doing the whole trip without needing to stop once. “That’s a big deal for me as I often have to do this trip a number of times a week.” “I don’t have as much pain, I feel I can move a lot more freely and have the ability to better control my bladder when I need to go without any accidents happening.” 60 SEPTEMBER 2020 The Local Voice Since 1991
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