Van Vuuren Physiotherapist

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01/08/2024

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Explore a deeper understanding of pediatric dysfunctional voiding. Through the case study of a 6-year-old girl, learn how pelvic floor therapy treatment will benefit her bladder and kidney health.

01/08/2024

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01/08/2024

Contact Van Vuuren Physiotherapists at 012 9988717 if you need help with your headaches.

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06/07/2023

..after they’ve been unsuccessfully stretched, poked, zapped, taped, stabbed, scrapped and cupped.

29/07/2022

Sexual side effects are common after treatment for both localised and advanced prostate cancer. Our panel of experts discusses the causes and treatment optio...

08/06/2022

Bedwetting in childhood is very common, affecting 1 in 15 seven year olds and 1 in 75 teenagers.

Our factsheet on night time wetting (link in comments) explains the reasons why children wet the bed and what actions you can take to help your child overcome this distressing condition.

A good bedtime routine can help and is a good place to start:

- As well as working on getting the drinking right in the daytime – plenty of it, evenly spread out, and thinking about what they drink – work on a good bedtime drinking routine. STOP drinks one hour before bedtime, every night, and no more after that till morning.

- Practise a good bedtime toileting routine: schedule a relaxed toilet sit as part of preparing for bed, and pop back to the toilet just before sleep if it’s more than ½ an hour later.

- Have a trial without nappies. Even if nappies are always wet, try removing them for at least a week, otherwise your child will never feel wet when they wee. It may be just the trigger they need to wake up.

- Protect the bed. Take the stress out of bedwetting by investing in a waterproof mattress cover, and waterproof duvet and pillow protectors if your child is really wet. Use an absorbent sheet to contain the wee too. Visit ERIC’s online shop for a wide range of bedding protection.

- Prepare your child for sleep. Unwind with a book or listen to music with the lights turned low. NO screens – so no TV, iPad, computer games in the hour before sleep, or the brain will get the wrong message!

- Help your child to practise taking themselves to the toilet if they wake. Think about a gentle night light or a torch so it’s not too dark. Should they go to the bathroom or use a potty/bucket/bottle in their bedroom? Bunk beds? Make sure it is the bottom bunk. Practise pulling pyjamas up and down, and changing them if they get wet.

- Avoid lifting – in other words waking your child to take them to the toilet – if you want to work on stopping bedwetting. It might keep the bed dry, but it encourages the child to wee during sleep as they don’t really wake up.

- Reward each step along the way – getting the drinking right, doing a bedtime wee, using the toilet at night.

04/06/2022

Bedwetting
An excellent talk by dr Nico Lourens on Enuresis pod.link/ferring/episode/916a2b9c14e8ddb08a42dcb5712d9308