Paediatric pelvic floor physiotherapy: a clinical commentary.

Author(s): C. Siracusa - Pages: 31–35

Abstract

The treatment of childhood bowel and bladder disorders is an emerging specialty of pelvic floor physiotherapy. Clinicians who have been solely trained in adult pelvic floor physiotherapy may feel ill-equipped to treat children because of their inadequate knowledge of the differences between adult and paediatric bowel and bladder disorders. This clinical commentary discusses the most common methods that are different in paediatric pelvic floor physiotherapy, and provide an insight into how it may be able to contribute to the field of paediatric urology and gastroenterology.

Keywords: childhood bowel and bladder disorders, paediatric pelvic floor physiotherapy, paediatric urology and gastroenterology

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