Bladder & Bowel Control — Men & Women
That sudden, urgent need to go — sometimes before you can reach the bathroom — along with frequent trips and waking through the night, is what we call overactive bladder. It is common, it is not something you simply have to live with, and it is not a character flaw or a sign of ageing you have to accept. Many people find real relief once the pelvic floor and bladder are supported properly, without medication or surgery.
Pelvic floor strengthening
Where it is clinically appropriate, the EMSELLA® chair does the muscle work. You sit fully clothed for 28 minutes.
Health teaching
We work through the four things that drive bladder control: hydration, bladder irritants, pelvic floor muscle strength, and bladder retraining.
Strengthening does the muscle work. The teaching is what helps you understand and support your bladder health beyond the treatment sessions.
What happens first: a Pelvic Floor Consultation with Shannon Lapointe, a Certified Continence Advisor. Not everyone needs treatment — and we will tell you if you don't.
What it is
With overactive bladder, the bladder muscle sends an urgent “go now” signal even when it isn’t full. That can mean urgency, going far more often than feels normal, and getting up at night (nocturia). A pelvic floor that isn’t working in a coordinated way often makes these signals harder to manage.
Who it affects
Overactive bladder affects both women and men, and it becomes more common with age, after childbirth, around menopause, and after prostate surgery. Most people never mention it — which is exactly why it goes untreated for years. You are not alone in this, and raising it with us is simply the first practical step.
How we help
We begin by understanding your specific pattern, because the right approach depends on what is actually driving your symptoms.
EMSELLA® — Pelvic Floor Strengthening
EMSELLA® uses focused electromagnetic energy to prompt thousands of deep pelvic floor contractions per session — the kind that are hard to achieve on your own. You sit fully clothed for the session. Many patients find that a stronger, better-coordinated pelvic floor helps calm urgency and supports steadier bladder control over the course of a program. For some, hormone support also has a role, which we discuss at your assessment.
Bladder and pelvic-floor care begins with a complimentary consultation with Shannon — so you understand what is happening and what would help before you decide anything.
Meet with Shannon for a complimentary continence and pelvic floor consultation. She will review your symptoms, relevant medical history, bladder or bowel concerns and contributing factors, explain how pelvic floor strengthening and health teaching may help, and discuss the most appropriate next steps.
An EMSELLA® experience may be included when clinically appropriate — the pelvic-floor treatment you sit on, fully clothed. Whether it suits your situation is Shannon’s clinical judgment, discussed at your consultation.
From there you choose the approach that fits — a physiotherapy-led program or our standard program — with pricing laid out plainly and Shannon guiding which is right for you.
This is more than access to a chair. Depending on what your consultation finds, your care may include clinical history review, continence education, bladder and bowel health teaching, pelvic floor strengthening, behavioural recommendations, and referral or medical follow-up where appropriate.
Take the overactive-bladder screener (OAB-V8) to see where your symptoms sit — free, private, about two minutes. Bladder-leakage (ICIQ) and, for men, prostate-related urinary (IPSS) screeners are here too.
How We Actually Treat It
EMSELLA® is a useful tool and it does a specific job well — it strengthens the pelvic floor without you having to do the work perfectly on your own. But it is one part of continence care, not the whole of it, and a clinic that offers you only a chair is offering you an incomplete plan.
What proper continence care includes:
Health teaching and behavioural strategy
Often the highest-value part, and the part most often skipped: bladder retraining and timed voiding · urge-suppression technique · fluid strategy — how much, and when · caffeine, alcohol and bladder irritants · managing constipation, which loads the pelvic floor · correct pelvic-floor engagement, which many people are doing wrong without knowing it.
Pelvic-floor training
Assessment of what your pelvic floor is actually doing, then training it deliberately. Some people need strengthening; some need to learn to release. Treating the wrong one makes symptoms worse, which is why we assess rather than assume.
Technology where it helps
EMSELLA® and, where appropriate, other in-clinic treatment — used because your assessment indicated it, not by default. If EMSELLA® is part of your plan, the cool-down after each session matters — a short breathing sequence that releases the pelvic floor after the work. Why the cool-down matters →
Medical review and referral
Some symptoms need a physician’s work-up before anything else, and some need urology, gynaecology, urogynaecology or pelvic-floor physiotherapy. We will tell you plainly when that is the honest answer rather than treating around it.
Reassessment
Continence care is measurable, so we measure it. At the end of your active care there is a progress review comparing where you are against where you started — not a vague conversation about whether you feel better.
That review decides what happens next: results reached and care moves to maintenance; more improvement wanted and we plan further active care; or something is not adding up and we investigate or refer. If it did not work, we will say so.
Start with a Pelvic Floor Consultation with Shannon — no pressure, completely confidential. An EMSELLA® experience may be included when clinically appropriate. We’ll talk honestly about whether this is likely to help you.
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