Mens Health

Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercises for Blokes (the bits below the belt) Southside Physiotherapy has specially trained male physiotherapists who can help you work through these problems – men who understand and can help.

Our comprehensive Prostate Cancer Rehabilitation Program at Southside Physiotherapy includes the following:

1- Pre-operative physiotherapy pelvic floor exercise advice and education prior to radical prostatectomy.

It is beneficial to get the exercise program in place before stress and trauma of surgery. It includes the use of Real Time Ultrasound so you can see your pelvic floor muscles working correctly, giving you immediate feedback when you work the right muscles.

2- Post-operative pelvic floor rehabilitation and bladder control training, which speeds up the recovery from radical prostatectomy and restores continence and bladder control as quickly as possible (based on Craig Allingham’s Prostate Recovery Plan). It includes dealing with postural and core muscle issues to make pelvic floor rehabilitation more efficient (Allingham C, Prostate Recovery Map, Redsock Publishing 2013).

It must be emphasised: if you are experiencing any changes in your normal bladder or bowel habits you must have them checked out by your family GP.