Pelvic floor physiotherapy rehabilitation is needed after prostatectomy or TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate). It can help with symptoms such as urinary leakage, urinary urgency and frequency, pelvic pain, erectile function and just getting back to full function again afterwards.

It can be really beneficial to get a pre-operative physiotherapy consultation to tune into and connect to these muscles before they’re affected by any bruising or stretching to the tissues from the surgery. You’ll feel better prepared and know what to expect. 

Assessing your symptoms, your posture, your movement patterns and taking a full history can help figure out what’s happening and can guide the process of creating a plan of action that will work for you to relieve the symptoms you may be experiencing such as pain anywhere in the area of the low back, rectum, penis or testicles, any bladder or bowel dysfunction or erectile dysfunction. 

Training your pelvic floor muscles to relax and let go is often a starting point as well as looking at how you’re standing and holding yourself. I can give you strategies that are easy to work with on a daily basis that can help you get relief. 

Get in touch to find out more about how pelvic health physio can help you. 

Any issues with the bladder or bowel function such as constipation, leakage of urine or stool, urgency and frequency or any pain with going to the toilet can all be assessed and treated with pelvic floor physiotherapy.

It’s often something you put up with for a long time before you make the call to go for Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy but it is always worthwhile to get these issues checked over and to start taking back control. 

To find out more about the men’s health services I offer at my clinic or to make an appointment, please get in touch.