Patient Services
Treatment sessions usually last one hour and take place twice each week. Modes of treatment range from basic to advanced and are designed to match each individual patient's needs. These specialty treatments include:
Vanita's Rehab is devoted to ensuring your treatment matches your needs. For a complimentary 15 minute consultation, please contact us.
Detailed descriptions of services.
Manual Therapy and Ultrasound
Involving acupressure as well as soft-tissue massage, manual therapy relaxes and strengthens muscles. Ultrasound is a modality which improves circulation and relaxes muscles, thereby decreasing muscle spasms and pain.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback uses measuring devices to help you become aware of your body's functioning. By tracking when your bladder and urethral muscles contract, and to what extent they contract, you can regain control over these muscles. Biofeedback can be used with pelvic muscle exercises and electrical stimulation to decrease stress and urge incontinence.
Timed Voiding or Bladder Training
Timed voiding (urinating) and bladder training are techniques that use biofeedback. Biofeedback and muscle conditioning—known as bladder training—can alter the bladder's schedule for storing and emptying urine. These techniques are effective for urge and overflow incontinence.
Behavior Modification
After being incontinent for a few years, many of us automatically go to the bathroom every chance we get. This results in the bladder shrinking in size so you have a lower capacity. Vanita's Rehab teaches you simple behavioral techniques that effectively increase your bladder capacity.
Electrical Stimulation
Just like exercise, brief doses of electrical stimulation can strengthen muscles in the lower pelvis. Electrical stimulation can be used to reduce both stress incontinence and urge incontinence. Vanita's Rehab uses safe and painless electrical stimulation to treat patients.
Nutrition
Certain food groups aggravate the bladder, causing it to spasm. These include diuretics, coffee, carbonated beverages, and alcohol. Vanita's Rehab assesses your nutritional health and guides you to make simple changes that relieve your incontinence.
Therapeutic Exercises
Kegel exercises to strengthen or retrain pelvic floor muscles and sphincter muscles can reduce or cure stress leakage. In addition, Vanita's Rehab teaches abdominal exercises so that only the neck of your bladder remains in your pelvis.
Relaxation Techniques
Deep breathing and other relaxation techniques assist you in controlling your urges. Vanita's Rehab incorporates these techniques to treat your incontinence, specifically, as well as enhance your general well-being.