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?
In the meantime, you may find useful information to help you manage your condition on our Resources to Support your Condition page.
