Pelvic Floor Clinic

A multidisciplinary program that offers services for women with pelvic floor issues, including pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, and bladder dysfunction. The clinic is focused on fitting women with pessaries and teaching them good bowel and bladder health.

Services available include the following:

• Conservative Management / Behavior Therapy: Following an initial assessment, conservative and behavioral therapies (exercise, diet, activities etc.) are discussed and commitment to behavior modification and lifestyle changes are encouraged
• Education: New patients are encouraged to view 5 basic modules on pelvic floor issues
  on- line
• Pessary Fitting: Registered Nurses assess and fit women for vaginal pessaries, devices that assist with prolapse and incontinence issues
• Medical Intervention: When appropriate medications may be prescribed that reduce symptoms in women
• Physiotherapist: The pelvic floor physiotherapist works 4 to 5 days a week in the clinic. She teaches a class about bladder health and then sees clients one on one. Her service is offered to those clients who do not have health care coverage or have used all their coverage for physiotherapy. It is not mandatory for clients to attend one of her classes before being assessed for a pessary.

We do not take clients who are looking for a surgical solution to their problem. Their family physician is asked to refer the client to a gynecologist for that concern.