Moline, Illinois 61265-4860 Phone : 563-940-2481
Fax : 866-761-7464
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Learning more about your condition and how you can take care of yourself speeds recovery. Below is a collection of handouts with common suggestions and instructions. Each patient is unique and some things may not apply to your condition. In addition, there may be more treatments for your condition not listed here. Please ask if you have questions and STOP any suggested activity that increases your pain.
Leakage and organ prolapse
- Pelvic floor muscle exercises - more than just stopping your pee
- Got to go right now: overactive bladder can make social activities uncomfortable
- Post partum Urinary Incontinence
- Urine leakage long after removal of the prostate
- Resources for Bladder Control
- Pelvic floor muscles and pelvic organ prolapse
- How to do pelvic floor muscle exercises - kegels
- Biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle training - Neuromuscular re education
- Avoiding extra abdominal pressure
- Pelvic floor muscle exercises with breathing
- Physical Therapy Before and After Prostate Surgery
- Review of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Exercise Websites
- Cough and sneeze leaks
- Night time urine production
Patient forms
- Bladder Record Instructions
- Bladder diary – 4 day and 8 day
- Personal Pelvic Muscle Exercise Program
- Pelvic Muscle Exercise Log
Apps to help with Pelvic Muscle exercises
It is important to focus on the muscle during exercise. Having a counter helps you to stay focused on your body (instead of how many you have done). The apps below are available on most phone. Some are free and some cost a small amount of money. Bring your phone to therapy and Beth will help you load an app. You must know your password.
- Kegel Kat
- Kegel Trainer
- Squeezy
Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise Counting Audio Files*
These audio files provide a prompt for pelvic floor exercise timing -- let Beth do the
counting for you. They can be played right from the computer, downloaded to an MP3 player (like an iPod),
or burned to a CD.
The following files are in ZIP format. Please click on the link and save it to your computer. This process
might take a few minutes, then you can click on the file and it will play on your Media Player.
* These files were created in collaboration with Eric
Scott Bloom 
Helpful Links
Home Delivery Supply Company – very helpful, in person advice on products. Sometimes sends samples. Delivered in bulk to patients home.
Kimberly-Clark professional support program – free samples and assistance ordering products for patients.
The Simon Foundation for Continence – supporting patients and innovation in the treatment of incontinence
National Association for Continence – patient and professional resources
Pelvic Organ Support organization
Videos
The Poo in You, constipation treatment Length: 5:45
How to empty bowels without straining Length: 3:20
Understanding pain: what to do about it in five minutes Length: 5:00
Why we all need to practice emotional first aid Length: 17:24
Vaginal Care - the Do's and Don'ts Length: 2:42
Relaxing your pelvic floor with Bill Taylor Length: 8:18
Vaginismus Length: 10:08
Pelvic Floor Muscle Spasm and Pelvic Pain
- Self help for pelvic pain (sciatica, tail bone pain, painful intercourse, bladder pain,vulvodynia, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, levator ani syndrome)
- Levator Ani syndrome (muscle spasm of the pelvic, vaginal, rectal muscles)
- Relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles
- Why does intercourse hurt?
- Avoiding vaginal irritants
- Flexibility and stretching
- Back pain and posture
- Pain during pregnancy
- How to raise children without breaking your back
- Best Meditation Apps
- Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
- TENS unit for pain management
- Interstitial Cystitis Food Sensitivities
Helpful Links
What's normal - vaginal anatomy / sex
Australian Pain Scientists teach about pain
Understanding pain: What to do about it in five minutes
Videos
How to empty bowels without straining Length: 3:20
Understanding pain: what to do about it in five minutes Length: 5:00
Why we all need to practice emotional first aid Length: 17:24
Internal self massage with tool Length 5:34
Vaginal Care - the Do's and Don'ts Length: 2:42
3 secrets of resilient people (Lucy Hone | TEDxChristchurch) Length: 15:58
Lymphedema
- Beth treats all types of lymphedema including: post mastectomy arm and chest swelling, breast swelling, head and neck swelling, abdominal, genital, and trunk swelling, leg swelling and primary lymphedema
- Treatments include: Multilayer compression bandaging, Manual lymphatic drainage, Lymphatic exercises, Fitting and instruction in compression sleeves, stockings and night garments, Gradient, sequential, pneumatic compression pump
- Breast surgery and shoulder pain
- Patient education on swelling management and prevention
- This 20 minute video discusses how to minimize the occurrence of lymphedema and possible treatments for
lymphedema.
You may want to print out the file "Patient education on swelling management and prevention"* to follow along.
Video Part 1 | Video Part 2
The National Lymphedema Network provides education and guidance for lymphedema patients.
- NLN position statement on exercise
- NLN information on lymphedema risk reduction
- NLN tips for air travel
Helpful Links
Gilda's Club of the Quad Cities
Everything Nobody Tells You About Cancer Treatment and your Sex Life
Local Resources
Sunlight Yoga - individual instruction in yoga therapy
Guided meditation - first Tuesday of each month
Yoga School of Davenport - meditation Friday, 7PM in Bettendorf - Free
Babies at the Barre - Mommy and baby dance