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Bladder

Leakage during training and on the field, urgency, nocturia, infection and irritation, and knowing which symptoms need a doctor.

Your result explained

Risk profiling: what Priority, Monitor and Routine mean in this area, why an athlete receives each result, and what happens next. You automatically receive the version matched to your result.

Priority
Your treatment plan

What your screen found, your pelvic floor program, and what to expect week by week.

Why you received this

You reported leakage that is frequent, of moderate or greater volume, or clearly interfering with your life or your sport; or urgency most days; or a red flag symptom such as pain or blood when passing urine, or recurrent infection.

Monitor
Watch and strengthen

Signs to track, technique for high impact efforts, and when to book a review.

Why you received this

You reported any leakage at all, or occasional urgency, or waking at night to pass urine. Bladder symptoms in sport always warrant at least a Monitor result, because they are so often left unreported.

Routine
Keep the standard

How the pelvic floor works under load and habits that keep it strong across a season.

Why you received this

You reported no leakage, no urgency, no nocturia, no recurrent infection and no red flag symptoms. Your bladder screen is clear this round.

Referral

Some symptoms sit outside physiotherapy scope. Where your screen identifies these, Artia prepares a letter for your GP rather than managing them itself.

Pelvic health physiotherapy
We manage these

Stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence; urgency and overactive bladder; nocturia and frequency; pelvic floor function under load.

Medical review
We refer these

Pain or burning when passing urine; blood in urine, ever; recurrent urinary tract infection; recurrent thrush; and cervical screening that is overdue or uncertain.

Cervical screeningIn Australia, women and people with a cervix aged 25 to 74 who have ever been sexually active are recommended to have a Cervical Screening Test every five years. Self-collection is an available option. Where an athlete reports she is overdue or unsure, Artia refers her to her GP.

Posters

Print ready A3 posters for the club to display, including awareness month campaigns. Club staff can download these from the club portal.

A3 POSTER
World Continence Week

June

A3 POSTER
Leaking is common, not normal

Year round

A3 POSTER
Pelvic floor and performance

Year round

A3 POSTER
Talk to us

Year round

Publications

The latest research in this area, curated and updated as new work publishes.

  • Faulks K, Catto T, et al. Prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction in elite Australian rugby union players. 2021
  • Teixeira RV, et al. Prevalence of urinary incontinence in female athletes: systematic review with meta-analysis. Pooled prevalence ~35%
  • Almeida MBA, et al. Urinary incontinence and other pelvic floor dysfunctions in female athletes. Athletes 19.6% vs controls 3.5% SUI
  • Dumoulin C, et al. Pelvic floor muscle training for urinary incontinence in women. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018

Publication lists and links shown are indicative. Final content, citations and any linked organisations are confirmed by Kylie before publication, and each resource carries a last reviewed date.