Specialist pelvic health service

The service provides care and support through specialist assessment, treatment and management of a range of issues including bladder and bowel, pelvic organ prolapse (when organs in the pelvis move downwards) and pelvic floor dysfunction (when there is too much or not enough tension on the pelvic floor muscles) along with preventative treatment measures

Our team of specialist nurses provide assessment, examination and treatment for a variety of pelvic floor health conditions including:-

Bladder problems – including leaking and difficulty emptying
Bowel leaking – including faecal leaking and difficult emptying and constipation
Pelvic floor weakness
Over activity of pelvic floor muscles
Pelvic organ prolapse

You may be offered advice on how to manage your condition through pelvic floor exercises and lifestyle changes.

We also work to support carers ensuring that they have the right advice and support to help manage symptoms.

We will always prescribe treatment options first and if you require containment products we can prescribe to meet your evaluated clinical needs.

We will tell your GP the details of your assessment and the plan of how we will help to manage your condition.

Your treatment may take between six months to a year. Sometimes people need to be referred to another service for treatment or we might continue to see you for ongoing treatment or bladder scans if it is necessary.

You can make an appointment yourself or you can be referred to us by any health professional, where we will see you at our clinic in one of the convenient locations across Stockton or Hartlepool.