Children have pelvic floors too!

Pelvic floor physiotherapy can be very helpful for children’s continence, and bladder and bowel concerns including daytime accidents, urinary urgency, soiling (encopresis), constipation and bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis). Pelvic floor physiotherapists with additional training specifically in kid’s bladder and bowel health can treat children’s continence concerns.

A pediatric continence appointment usually involves taking a complete history of your child’s bladder and bowel health, fluid intake, nutrition and history around their birth and development. Your physio will then give you different treatment strategies to help. Assessment and treatment for children is non-invasive, with the majority of treatment around improving toileting habits, toilet/ potty set up, routines, rewards, bedwetting alarms (where required) and management of constipation.