Urinary Incontinence in Adults and Children with Bladder and Bowel Disorders -- Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence -- Anatomy -- Epidemiology of Urinary Incontinence -- Physiotherapy for Children with Bladder and Bowel Disorders -- The Ageing Lower Urinary Tract -- Assessment and Treatment of Urinary Incontinence in Neurologically Impaired Patients -- Patient Assessment -- Quality of Life Assessment and Questionnaires -- Investigations for Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction -- Urinalysis -- Treatment and Management of Urinary Incontinence -- Historical Perspective of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training -- Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise in the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence -- Advanced Manual Therapy for the Pelvic Floor -- Pelvic Floor Stability and Trunk Muscle Coactivation -- Biofeedback -- Ultrasound -- The Use of Exercise Balls -- Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation -- Bladder Training and Behavioural Training -- Voiding Problems -- The Importance of Fluids -- Pregnancy, Childbirth and Urinary Incontinence -- Childbirth and Anal Incontinence -- Incontinence and the Menopause -- The Athletic Woman / Women and Exercise -- The Male Patient -- The Occupational Therapist’s Approach to the Management of Incontinence -- Catheter Care -- Surgery for Urinary Incontinence -- Drugs Acting on the Lower Urinary Tract -- Colorectal Disorders -- An Anatomical Overview -- Faecal Incontinence -- Constipation -- Abdominal Massage for Constipation -- Laxatives -- Pelvic Pain -- Prevalence, Definitions, and Aetiology of Pelvic Pain -- Assessment and Treatment of Pelvic Pain -- Pelvic Organ Prolapse -- Background to Pelvic Organ Prolapse -- Evaluation of Prolapse -- Treatment and Prevention of Prolapse -- Professional Issues -- Ethical Principles in Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy -- Research Trials in Incontinence -- Infection Control Issues -- UK Government Guidelines.

Therapeutic Management of Incontinence and Pelvic Pain, 2nd edition contains contributions from many of the well-known authors of the successful first edition, who have updated their chapters in light of more recent research. Chapters include coverage of the management and treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunctions in men and women, pelvic organ prolapse; issues concerning the elderly, neurologically impaired patients and those with pelvic pain. Allied updated chapters are presented on research methodology, the importance of fluids and infection control. Other new chapters are concerned with quality of life, the treatment of bladder and bowel dysfunction in children, the history of pelvic floor muscle exercise and manual therapy. In addition, the use of real-time ultrasound to evaluate pelvic floor muscle contractility, exercise balls to promote coordination of trunk stabilisers and the pelvic floor muscles, and the role of the Occupational Therapist in the continence service are discussed. Finally, a new section on ethical issues regarding the management of incontinence completes this well-illustrated text. This book will be of interest to physiotherapists and nurses working in the continence field, and to all health professionals who wish to gain a better insight into the conservative management of pelvic floor muscle disorders. It will enable the reader to question their present practice and will help in encouraging further research.