Perinatal Pelvic Health Services at Humber Health Partnership (Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)

Scunthorpe General Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby and Goole and District Hospital 

We are a small team of Specialist Women’s Health Physiotherapists working across Scunthorpe General Hospital (SGH) and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital (DPoW) Grimsby. We are currently expanding our workforce and developing our services to also include a fortnightly clinic at Goole and District Hospital once set up.

We currently accept referrals from GPs, Consultants, Gynaecologists, Urologists, Allied Health Professionals, Community Nurses, Qualified Health Visitors, Midwives, and Nursing staff for the following presentations:-

• Urinary incontinence (stress and urge)
• Faecal incontinence
• Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) in pregnancy and post-delivery
• Post childbirth delivery tears
• Post-pelvic surgery
• Pelvic organ prolapse (POP)
• Pelvic Pain/ Overactive Pelvic Floor
• Diastasis Recti Abdominus. 

We currently offer out-patient clinic appointments at our hospital sites or remote/telephone consultations. Patients are assessed individually and this is tailored to meet the patients needs, dependent on their presentation and Physiotherapy goals.

Following assessment, a range of treatment modalities can be utilised such as:-

• Pelvic floor muscle training,
• Individualised home exercise programmes,
• Neuromuscular stimulation,
• Biofeedback,
• Bladder retraining,
• Mobility aids,
• Post-surgical/delivery advice and adjuncts to therapy such as bladder support prescription and access to pelvic floor muscle training applications such as 'Squeezy'.

Following a telephone or face to face assessment at Goole, if your physiotherapist feels it essential to access specialist equipment or more intensive treatment you will be re-directed to one of our main sites (DPoW/SGH). This will be discussed on an individual basis.

We support women post-delivery with returning to pre-pregnancy activities and have access to exercise instructors within department in Scunthorpe hospital who link into the local gyms to progress patients where appropriate in reaching these goals.

Home exercise plans are developed with a physiotherapist and are individual to each patient with the aim to empower patients in reaching their goals, reducing pelvic floor dysfunction and improving quality of life through the patient’s life span.

Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital 

The Pelvic & Obstetric Physiotherapy Service at Hull University Teaching Hospitals works across two sites at Therapies, Hull Royal Infirmary and Therapies, Castle Hill Hospital.

We are comprised of a well-established, very experienced small team of female physiotherapists who treat you with compassion, understanding and seek to maintain your privacy and dignity at all times. We know that it can often take months or even years for you to have the courage to seek treatment for these often embarrassing problems. Our assessment and treatments are tailored to your specific problem.

You can be referred by your Obstetric & Gynaecology, Urogynaecology and Urology Consultants and Urogynaecology/Urology Specialist Nurses, General Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners within GP practice or Midwife.

Conditions that we treat here at HUTH include: Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle pain, Urinary Incontinence, Overactive bladder, Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Pelvic floor dysfunction (Weakness or Overactive), 3rd or 4th degree Perineal Tears, Postpartum Rectus Diastasis (Tummy muscle Separation) and Pre/post-operative Prostatectomy.