Women's health physiotherapy - what to expect?

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Just that really! Have an appointment coming up to see if they can help with a rectocele following childbirth injuries.

My first appointment was her telling me all about the physiology of the pelvic floor, and talking me through the exercises. My second appointment she gave me in internal exam to check I was doing them properly. I then had pelvic floor surgery and I've seen her once more, purely for a general chat and then had a phone convo and she's discharged me. So if yours is anything like mine, I wouldn't expect a huge amount

Thank you. I can't see that they're going to be able to achieve much. I have a pelvic floor of steel and the problem is where the muscle layer from my tearing hasn't held. So unless she's got healing hands, I can't see that anything other than corrective surgery is going to do anything of any use

I had four children, one instrumental birth plus episiotomy, then tore along that for my second, three and four were easy and was pootling along without any problems at all until I fell over last year in the snow and had a prolapse! I tried the exercises but honestly, surgery has been the best thing - I even managed to skip for a minute in the gym last week. Good luck with the appointment.

Oh no how unfortunate! I had forceps without episiotomy so had a lovely tear. Then the combination of that awful cough that went round about 2 weeks post partum, plus the constant lifting of a complete heffalump of a baby (he's almost 20lbs at 15 weeks) and my poor nether regions never really stood a chance really!