Everyone knows the dreadful feeling of needing the bathroom suddenly to empty the bowels and how humiliating and embarrassing it is to be caught short and pass stool.
Imagine the awful feeling with an overwhelming urge to empty one's bowel and not making it to the bathroom on time. Worse still is the fear of not being able to control wind or gas. However, help is available to get one's freedom back without fear of bowel leaks and to ensure optimal bowel emptying and solve constipation.
Aoife Mi Eochaidh, chartered physiotherapist and winner of the BPW and Irish Permanent Galway Young Business Woman of Year Award, offers physiotherapy for men, women, and children for pelvic conditions and incontinence. She is an experienced chartered physiotherapist who runs her private clinic from Suite 14, Bon Secours Consultant Clinic in Renmore, Galway.
Aoife Ni Eochaidh advises keeping up the pelvic floor training for life for optimal results and says it is never too late to start again or begin properly.
Weak pelvic floor muscles can give bowel symptoms of difficulty emptying the bowel, bowel incontinence, and vaginal wall and bowel prolapse. She cautions that when the bowel is not emptying fully, it can be a real drain on energy levels, affect sleep and the ability to undertake general exercise.
Aoife Ni Eochaidh uses modern non-invasive evidence-based technologies to treat the root cause and ensure excellent results. She is highly experienced and skilled in a variety of treatments.
Bowel incontinence does not just affect those who have had children, any woman of any age can have it, even top athletes, and men too. Getting older and the menopause can make bowel problems worse.
Sufferers can talk to a doctor, or enquire with Aoife about attendin pelvic physiotherapy for chronic constipation, difficulty moving the bowels, or for faecal urgency or incontinence.
Aoife also treats conditions including urinary incontinence, prolapse (womb, bladder or bowel ), obstructed defecation, colitis, vaginismus, pelvic pain, bed wetting, pregnancy and childbirth incontinence (including C section and most importantly for third degree obstetric tears ) and post-natal diastasis rectus, over active bladder, cystitis and osteoporosis.
To book an appointment, a refresher appointment, or for further information email [email protected] or ring 087 2863013
