Inside the Box
A podcast for women and professionals alike, hosted by mums and Women's Health Physiotherapists, Kat, Tash, and Caitlin. Established and driven by our desires to share our passion for educating and empowering women to better understand their bodies, in particular - what's inside their 'box'. Amongst ourselves, real-life patients and leading industry experts, we’ll unpack a variety of topics including pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy, exercise, birth, postpartum, sexual pain, endometriosis, leakage, prolapse and beyond.
Inside the Box
Bed wetting, constipation and withholding in kids - with international paediatric pelvic health OT Quiara Smith
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Kat, Tash & Caitlin
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Season 2
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Episode 9
Quiara Smith is an Occupational Therapist with further speciality training and experience in paediatric pelvic health conditions. Quiara has worked in Occupational Therapy for over 13 years and currently practises from her private clinic Aloha Integrative Therapy in California.
In this episode we cover:
- The top 3 presentations of pelvic health conditions in kids to her clinic: Constipation, withholding and incontinence
- The common signs of pelvic floor dysfunction in children and how do we distinguish this from typical development timelines
- The biggest misconceptions parents (and professionals) have about the role of Pelvic Health OT’s
- The link between neurodivergence, sensory processing and continence issues
- How common is faecal impaction? What are the short and long term management strategies?
- Bed wetting in the preschool/ school aged child
- A discussion around interoception - Can you train this? How do you train this?
We finish the conversation with Quiara’s take on how we can best support our children’s pelvic health as parents.
Links: @alohaintegrativetherapy
www.alohaintegrativetherapy.com
