Symptoms
Do you..
- have to cut short your game of golf so that you may use the bathroom?
- have trouble sitting through a game of cards due to bladder urgency, with unexpected leaks?
- feel you urinate too often during the day? Or at night?
- get recurrent and bothersome Urinary Tract Infections?
- experience unwanted leakage when you run, carry heavy objects or stand up from sitting?
- regularly evacuate hard bowel movements?
- wear liners ‘just in case’ to protect from unplanned bladder or bowel leaks?
- still have unanswered questions about the care and maintenance of your pessary?
- often miss your favourite team scoring because you are in the bathroom … for the 3rd time in the last hour?
- evacuate one or less than one bowel movements per week?
- get an urgent feeling to use the bathroom when you hear water trickling or when you unlock the door upon coming home?
Services
Assessment – Comprehensive, respectful and professional examination in clinic or in your home.
Consultation – we provide consultation to adults in hospitals, residential and private homes.
Treatment – Practical, effective and current solutions for regaining bladder or bowel control.
Training – Using biofeedback therapy as an adjunct treatment for pelvic muscle exercises.
Procedure
Free Initial Consultation
Please call to discuss whether the services we provide will be right for you. Naomi Wolfman offers a free 15 minute consultation over the phone, helping potential patients decide whether to embark towards what is sure to be enhanced quality of life.
At your first in person-appointment, you will be given new information about symptoms interfering with your daily life. You most pertinent questions will be answered, beginning the process of information gathering.
Your second appointment will follow one week after the first. This initial assessment will allow us to tailor treatment for your individual needs. you will participate in a sensitive, respectful, and comprehensive continence assessment based on:
– Present symptoms
– Completed questionaire
– Medical and continence histories
– examination and devaluation of your pelvic floor muscles
– Any retention of urine by use of ultrasound bladder scanner.
By this time, we will have gathered the information necessary to create a plan of action that will incorporate behavioural changes including:
– food choices
– healthy fluids
– healthy habits
– pelvic muscle exercises
– muscle therapies (see ‘Biofeedback examples below)
Service Charges
Assessment
Initial – 15 minutes (free)
55 minute session – $150
Pessary Fitting – $240
Pessary follow-up – $90
Treatment
55 minute session $150
30 minute session $90
15 minute session $50
Biofeedback (55 minute session) – $150
Biofeedback package 5 sessions – $650