A paediatric continence physiotherapist has specialist training in pelvic health and continence management with a focus on muscles and function especially the pelvic floor, abdominal and postural muscles. Continence physiotherapists do not perform surgery or prescribe medication. There role is to assess and treat physical and functional contributors to bladder and bowel problems.
Debbie Rechtman
Continence and Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist.
Debbie has been a senior clinician at Southern Health in the paediatric and adult continence clinics for over ten years and has extensive experience working with children with disabilities and continence problems. She completed post-graduate qualifications in Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation at Melbourne University in 1998. She currently teaches the paediatric post-graduate course to local and international physiotherapy students and supervises their clinical learning, both adult and paediatric. She is a committee member of the Victorian branch of the Continence Foundation of Australia Physiotherapy Group and is an invited presenter at paediatric courses sponsored by the Australian Government for training multidisciplinary continence health professionals.