Male Pelvic Health
Men may face various pelvic health issues that impact bladder, bowel, and sexual function. Physiotherapy offers effective treatment options to manage these conditions, ensuring better health outcomes and improved daily functioning.
Common conditions
Pre and Post Op Radical Prostatectomy Advice and Exercise
For men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, the research indicates that guided pelvic floor exercises prior to surgery makes the critical difference to minimising the impact of post-operative urinary incontinence.
Bladder issues
- Urinary incontinence
- Urgency/frequency in the day or night
- Bladder emptying issues
Bowel issues
- Constipation/straining/obstructed defaecation
- Faecal or wind incontinence
- Haemorrhoidal or rectal prolapse
Pelvic Pain & Sexual Dysfunction
Pudendal neuralgia (compression/irritation of the Pudendal Nerve) can cause a range of symptoms from severe pain in the pelvis/genitals, bladder symptoms, and erectile dysfunction or ejaculatory issues.
- Rectal pain (Chronic Proctalgia, or Proctalgia Fugax)
- Bladder Pain Syndrome
- Coccyx pain
Sally's approach to treatment
Each patient is individually assessed.
Treatment can include any of the following:
- Pelvic floor muscle strengthening exercises
- Education around optimised use of pad wearing post surgery
- Post surgical advice on graduated return to physical activity
- Relaxation and breathing exercises
- Downtraining
- Stretches and exercise prescription
- Muscle and fascia release
- Bladder diary
- Bladder retraining
- Fluid advice
- Bowel management
- Toileting positions
- Real Time Ultrasound
Further reading:
Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
Continence NZ