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Why Does My Child Keep Wetting Their Pants?

If your child is struggling with daytime wetting, we have physical therapy treatment that can help.

At Purple Mountain PT we provide physical therapy treatment for pediatric urinary incontinence (diurnal enuresis and nocturnal enuresis). 

Parents, we understand you may feel frustrated or uncertain about why your child keeps wetting their pants and what you can do to support them. Our doctors of physical therapy are pediatric bladder and bowel physical therapy specialists. Our physical therapists are trained in the unique bladder and bowel developmental needs of children, and the therapy that kids receive for bedwetting, or any bladder & bowel condition, is specific to pediatric needs. If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

Our physical therapy treatment for kids who have diurnal enuresis and bedwetting can improve self-esteem, social engagement and alleviate household stress. 

One of our greatest joys is when a child returns to PT with a broad smile and exclamation of their busy social life! It truly is a gift for us to witness, because we understand that bladder and bowel control issues, including bedwetting, often inhibit a child’s social interaction and may increase their anxiety. With bedwetting, children and sometimes parents, also, experience embarrassment or social avoidance of overnight outings.

At what age is wetting the bed or daytime wetting considered a problem?

Daytime loss of urine (also called diurnal enuresis, daytime wetting or daytime urine accidents) occurs in 3-4% of children between the ages of 4 and 12. It is twice as common in girls than boys.

Most children develop control of their bladder when sleeping between ages two and five. 16-20% of children upto age six experience bedwetting (also called nocturnal enuresis). At age 6, we would expect that children should be able to control their urine when sleeping. If your child is struggling with bedwetting or daytime bladder and bowel issues, our pediatric physical therapy program is here to help. We work with children of all ages, helping them to learn effective bladder and bowel control. If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

Achieving bladder and bowel control is a complicated neuromotor task! Don’t get angry with your child who keeps wetting their pants!

Most parents recognize how amazing it is when your infant learns to roll over and then advances to crawling and walking. The crawling stage is actually very important for their future bowel and bladder control, because it helps their core strength and their pelvis alignment. When children potty train, the neuromotor control that is happening is abundant! There is so much that goes into holding urine and stool and an equal amount of coordination and motor planning is needed for a child to recognize the sensation of needing to urinate or pass a bowel movement. Once they feel the urge, they need to stop what they are doing (which might be a fun activity!) and go to the toilet. When in the bathroom, their ability to control their pelvic floor muscles comes into play. Commonly, our patients push their urine or stool out. Or they may have urinary stream that stops and starts. Or they might not actually finish urinating or passing the stool. If your child keeps wetting their pants, we will help uncover the things contributing to this. To learn more contact us at 616-516-4334 or contact us here.

We will help identify the mal-adaptive habits or methods your child uses to urinate and defecate. 

We work with you and your child to find the underlying causes of daytime or nighttime incontinence (nocturnal enuresis). Our treatment methods are designed to help your child to learn what is normal frequency of peeing and defecating. We also help your child learn what the urge to urinate or defecate feels like. We encourage your child to listen to their body and use the toilet when they experience an urge. Parents tell us that all of our physical therapy for bladder and bowel control is so helpful to have another adult talking to their child, re-enforcing what has often been said by the parent. Parents get tired of saying to their child “Do you need to go the bathroom?” or “Please, go to the bathroom, you haven’t gone in hours.” And it is common that the child’s response is “I don’t need to go.” That’s frustrating for parents. We help take the frustration out of the circumstance; let us support your child towards understanding their body and gaining bladder and bowel control. If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

The International Children’s Continence Society recommends treatment for bedwetting for any child 6 years old or older: 

“Treatment is not only justified but mandatory.” – ICCS Standardization document 2010

What if my child is a pre-teen or older, can physical therapy help bedwetting for these ages? Yes we can!

We work with any person under the age of 18 who experiences bedwetting. Even though this is a private matter inside your home, the truth is that there are countless adolescents and teens who struggle with bedwetting. We recommend getting treatment at an earlier age, simply because it can help ease anxiety and household stress and promote your child’s social skills when bowel and bladder control has been achieved. However, if your child is “older”, have no fear, we commonly help adolescents and teens who have bedwetting. To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, contact us here.

What does bladder and bowel physical therapy do for incontinence (diurnal enuresis) or bedwetting?

We begin with an evaluation that fully analyzes bladder and bowel function, both daytime and nighttime, developmental levels and motor control. We provide a variety of therapeutic interventions to help your child learn to not keep wetting their pants.

We know it is frustrating for both you and your child when your child keeps wetting their pants. Our PT will uncover things that are contributing to this happening. We may ask you a variety of questions regarding your child’s bladder and bowel function. These could include

  • Toilet habits and behaviors, in particular does your child hold their urine too long, avoid bowel movements, or not empty completely?
  • Ball-park quantification of daytime urinary stream
  • Ballpark quantification of nighttime urine loss
  • Urinary flow characteristics
  • Urinary urge
  • Sleep quality, movements, habits, bedtime. Arousal during sleep.
  • Urinary frequency during daytime
  • Dietary habits, timing of foods, fiber, fluid intake and types of food and drink
  • Bowel habits including frequency, timing, sensation of the need to void, straining, pain, bloating or other.
  • Abdominal bloating, pain or cramping
  • The efforts you have made that have failed to achieve sleeping through the night without loss of urine
  • Urinary tract infection history.
  • Developmental milestones for motor and speech.
  • Urinary urge and your child’s reaction to urge
  • Bowel movement urge and your child’s reaction to urge
  • Toileting postures
  • Your child’s physical activities and sports
  • Any pertinent medical history. This could include anything, including: learning disabilities, congenital anorectal malformation, diabetes, spina bifida, down syndrome, autism, any developmental delay, anxiety, ADHD or any other condition.

If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

Our goal is to fully support you and your child and provide developmentally appropriate care. As such, our families tell us that the PT for their child’s bladder and bowel control challenges has been therapeutic, empowering and uplifting. 

Your child’s physical therapy will be comprehensive and fully work to address daytime and nighttime bladder and bowel issues.

Quite often families come to us and are not aware of any daytime bladder issues and report their child has daily bowel movements. However, upon further inquiry we often find that children do, indeed, have non-optimal bladder and bowel daytime function. If we want to alleviate bedwetting, we must optimize daytime bladder and bowel function. If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

We use a variety of methods to improve your child’s bladder and bowel control. These include:

  • Biofeedback to help your child learn to release and tighten the bladder and bowel control muscles.
  • Core strengthening for any child who has low tone, weak core or lower strength
  • Breathing exercises
  • Training to improve your child’s awareness of what an urge to urinate and defecate feels like. Improving their sensory understanding of their body is crucial. Children often are completely unaware of the need to void.
  • Toileting practice, teaching them proper posture, breathing, release of their pelvic floor muscles and relaxation during both a bowel movement and urination.
  • Dietary recommendations to facilitate complete bowel movements daily, without straining.
  • Constipation remedies including dietary suggestions, manual therapy and exercises to facilitate complete defecation.
  • Partnering with your pediatrician and advising you on protocols to facilitate a bowel clean-out. Often children who have bedwetting or daytime wetting their pants issues, have constipation.
  • Coaching your child in toileting habits, sleep habits and healthy bladder and bowel habits.
  • Gentle manual therapy methods (external only) to facilitate intestinal motility, awareness of their body and relief of muscular guarding.

Pediatric physical therapy for a child who keeps wetting their pants or experiences bedwetting must always assess and treat constipation!

When a child experiences urinary incontinence, whether daytime or when sleeping, quite often constipation is present. The nerves for the rectum and bladder are near each other, so if the rectum is full of stool, this can throw off bladder function. Additionally, a full rectum may physically push the bladder, contributing to bladder spasms and unexpected loss of urine, during the day or with bedwetting. To learn more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

Physical therapy to help any child who is wetting their pants or experiencing bedwetting is provided in a safe, private treatment space in an uplifting environment that is developmentally appropriate. Parents are always included!

At Purple Mountain PT, our treatment rooms are designed for our patients to experience a therapeutic setting. We work with you to create a partnership with you and your child that facilitates true progress with their bladder and bowel challenges. Because this is our life’s work, we are sensitive to the embarrassment that children may face and, as such, we use discrete and appropriate methods throughout your care so your child actually wants to come to PT. Our approach is positive, encouraging and therapeutic. We celebrate your child’s success and intentionally motivate your child to achieve the goals we create together. We love working with pre-teens and teens and find that they connect with our physical therapists because we are athletes, students and engage them in conversation on topics they enjoy, such as their sports or musical theater or band. If interested in learning more about the work with do with kids of all ages, contact us here.

Biofeedback and pelvic floor muscle training are helpful components of treatment for a child who experiences enuresis or nocturnal enuresis. 

The pelvic floor muscles, in coordination with breathing and the abdominals, are responsible for both storing/holding urine and stool and letting it go in the toilet. Some children don’t yet know how to effectively control these muscles. They may have learned mal-adaptive habits such as holding their urine too long, avoiding defecating, not using a public toilet or not drinking enough water. Sometimes the pelvic floor muscles get confused and need to be retrained. Our physical therapy for pediatric bladder and bowel control will help your child learn how to better understand and control these important muscles. To learn more, contact us here.

Why Does My Child Keep Wetting Their Pants?  If you are wondering this, your PT can help guide behavior & habit modifications to facilitate urinary and fecal control!

Often we find that our patients simply don’t like to use the toilet. They may avoid it all together or simply choose to use the toilet rarely. They may, in fact, not even feel the urge to urinate or perceive the need to pass a bowel movement. Often the kids legitimately did not realize they wet or soiled themselves. Parents may grow frustrated by this, but there is no benefit to getting angry with your child. Indeed, the lack of control is legitimately beyond their awareness. A child with this lack of awareness and, even a child who has awareness, but still wetting their pants sometimes, often benefits from behavioral modifications. We coach your child, using motivational techniques and education, to make better choices and to learn how to better take care of their body. We will teach your child optimal toileting posture and methods to pass urine and stool. Hint, they should not be rushing or pushing their pee or poop out! Our expertise and training helps identify these underlying habits and coaches you and your child so that bladder and bowel habits are optimized. Here is a link to a booklet about pediatric bedwetting that may be helpful for families to use at home. If interested in learning more about our physical therapy for kids who have bladder or bowel control challenges, contact us here.

To stop bedwetting and daytime wetting, positivity helps! Our physical therapy works to stop bedwetting, to improve daytime continence and to boost self esteem!

One key to our success with helping you uncover the reasons your child keeps wetting their pants is that we comprehensively treat your child and identify numerous items that may be contributing to their challenges with bladder and bowel control. 

We reward your child and help them to feel motivated to have success! We love to see a child proud of themselves and report success!

Purple Mountain Physical Therapy provides developmentally appropriate physical therapy for pediatric bladder and bowel control issues. We work with all ages and offer treatment that empowers kids to feel proud of their achievement. Because we are pelvic health physical therapists who also treat adults, we understand that bladder and bowel issues are prevalent across the lifespan. It is our hope that if we can support kids towards better pelvic health, some of them will not develop adult issues with their bladder and bowel function. Our doctors of physical therapy promise to give you our best! To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s challenges with bladder and bowel function, call 616-516-4334 or contact us here.

Peace,

Dr. Maureen O’Keefe, DPT and the Purple Mountain Physical Therapy Team are specialists in treating pelvic health, bladder and bowel conditions and TMJ disorders.   We consider this work and honor and enjoy seeing kids thrive and gain self confidence as they master bladder and bowel control!

You also may be interested in these articles we’ve written about pediatric bladder and bowel issues, just click on them to read:

Pediatric Bladder Physical Therapist Near Grand Rapids, Michigan

Why Does My Ten Year Old Wet The Bed?

Why is My Childs Poop So Big?

How Much Bedwetting is Normal?

Physical Therapy Can Stop Bedwetting!

And information about some of our adult physical therapy services, just click to read:

What Can Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Help With?

When Do I Need Pelvic Floor PT?

Exercise in Pregnancy: A Physical Therapists Perspective

Why Does My C-Section Scar Hurt Years Later?

Tailbone pain and How Pelvic Floor PT Can Help You! Plus Some Self-Care Tips!

Vaginismus and Dyspareunia Treatment in Grand Rapids

Physical Therapy after Prostatectomy

Pelvic PT for Testicular Pain (Orchialgia) in Grand Rapids

TMJ Disorder Treatment in Grand Rapids

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Bladder Problems. What’s Going On?

Physical Therapy Can Stop Bedwetting!

Did you know that physical therapy can help your child’s bedwetting?

We are pediatric bladder and bowel physical therapists right here in Grand Rapids, Michigan and we help bedwetting!

At Purple Mountain Physical Therapy, here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we specialize in pelvic health physical therapy and this includes pediatric bladder and bowel health. We offer both in-person treatment or remote consultations to guide parents and children towards being dry at not.  Our pediatric bladder and bowel program includes a variety of physical therapy methods to help your child gain control of their bladder when sleeping. Everything we do for children is specific to pediatric developmental stages, age appropriate and includes the parent or guardian to help improve household support so you all can achieve the goals you set. Physical Therapy can help stop bedwetting. If you are interested in learning more about our physical therapy (either in-person at our PT clinic in Grand Rapids or via remote consult, if you qualify) to help your child’s bedwetting, call us at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgable team members or contact us here and we will be in touch with you!  

What does bladder and bowel physical therapy do for my child?

We help children learn about their bladder and bowel function, we use exercises and other interventions to enhance control.  One helpful component of our treatment is rehabilitative ultrasound imaging.  Using ultrasound, we can show the child and parent their bladder, pelvic floor muscles (and how to control them) and any constipation.   Parents & kids have found this invaluable in learning how to better establish optimal bladder and bowel control.   We guide and support parents and educate both parents & kids on optimal function, routines to stop bedwetting, how to effectively control the pelvic floor and bladder control muscles and more.   If you would like more information about our pediatric bladder & bowel physical therapy to help stop bedwetting, reach out here.

All children who experience bedwetting will receive a physical therapy bladder and bowel evaluation, with the parent included, that fully analyzes bladder and bowel function, both daytime and nighttime.

During this evaluation we will discuss your child’s bladder and bowel habits, sleep routine, daytime routine, diet and physical activity levels. We also evaluate your child’s strength, coordination and core muscles because there are often impairments in these muscles, resulting in bladder or bowel control problems, such as bedwetting. We include a variety of questions regarding your child’s bladder and bowel function, such as:

  • Toilet habits and behaviors
  • Urinary habits, including frequency, urgency and stream.
  • Fluid intake habits, types of fluid & volume
  • Estimated daytime urinary output
  • Estimated bedwetting volume lost.
  • Urinary stream characteristics (does it stop and start, happen easily, split, etc)
  • Your child’s sensation of their urinary urge
  • Sleep quality, movements, habits, bedtime. Arousal during sleep.
  • General nutrition intake, timing of meals, habits of breakfast, lunch and dinner, fiber intake, food preferences.
  • Bowel habits including do you have daily bowel movements, does your child feel empty afterwards, is the volume of the stool reflecting the quantity of food ingested, timing, sensation of urge to defecate, straining, pain, bloating or other.
  • Abdominal distension, abdominal wall weakness, abdominal pain or cramping.
  • What you have tried that didn’t work to facilitate bladder and bowel control.
  • Urinary tract infection history.
  • Developmental milestones for motor and speech.
  • Your child’s reaction to the urge to urinate or defecate.
  • Toileting postures
  • Your child’s physical activities and sports
  • Any pertinent medical history. This could include anything, including: learning disabilities, congenital anorectal malformation, diabetes, spina bifida, down syndrome, autism, any developmental delay, anxiety, ADHD or any other condition.

To ask about cost and availability of our pediatric physical therapy for bedwetting and to speak with one of our knowledgable staff members, reach out to us at 616-516-4334 or contact us here.  We offer treatment in-person in Grand Rapids, Michigan or via remote consultation for those who qualify

We have worked with countless children of all ages to provide physical therapy to stop bedwetting.  Our goal is to fully support you and your child and provide trauma informed and developmentally appropriate care. Families tell us that the PT to stop their child’s bedwetting is therapeutic and uplifting.

The evaluation and all treatment occurs between the parent, child and doctor of physical therapy. We include the child into any conversation so they understand the treatment and experience buy-in. If your child is too young or disabled to fully understand, we provide extensive parental support and can use a variety of methods to help your child improve bedwetting.  We have worked with children of all ages, including adolescents and teens who have struggled with bedwetting for years.  We offer a private, discreet and comfortable place to receive physical therapy for bedwetting.

Our knowledgable staff can answer all of your questions that you may have about physical therapy for bedwetting.   To speak with a team member, call 616-516-4334 and you will learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting.  You can also contact us here.

We use a variety of methods to improve your child’s bedwetting and overall bladder and bowel function. These include:

  • Biofeedback & Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging:  to help your child learn to release and tighten the bladder and bowel control muscles.
  • Core strengthening for any child who has low tone, weak core or lower strength
  • Breathing exercises
  • Sensory training to improve your child’s understanding of what an urge to urinate and defecate feels like. Children often are completely unaware of the need to void.
  • Exercises practicing toileting including breathing, how to open their passageway, how to relax, posture on the toilet (Or standing for boys, if preferred).
  • Fiber and dietary suggestions to promote daily, healthy, soft bowel movements, without straining.  We also will talk about digestion and chewing habits.
  • Partnering with your pediatrician and advising you on protocols to facilitate a bowel clean-out. Often children who have bedwetting have constipation and a bowel clean-out is necessary to allow their bladder to function and hold urine at night.  Parents come to us overwhelmed by the prospect of undertaking a bowel clean out program and we take the guesswork out of this.  You can expect to receive considerable guidance and support about how to implement, modify, determine progress and manage a bowel clean out program.  Many parents find this aspect of our pediatric bedwetting physical therapy program to be something that eases stress and provides considerable progress towards stopping bedwetting.  Because we specialize in pediatric bladder and bowel physical therapy, you and your child will be working with a licensed physical therapist who knows how to guide you and your child towards success.
  • Gentle manual therapy methods to the abdomen or low back to facilitate intestinal motility, awareness of their body and relief of muscular guarding.

Your child’s bedwetting physical therapy will be comprehensive and address daytime and nighttime bladder and bowel issues.

Quite often families come to us and are not aware of any daytime bladder issues and report their child has daily bowel movements. However, upon further inquiry we often find that children do, indeed, have non-optimal bladder and bowel daytime function. If we want to alleviate bedwetting, we must optimize daytime bladder and bowel function. We understand that you may be skeptical that physical therapy can help stop your child’s bedwetting, but our experience is guided in helping families just like yours.

Give us a call at 616-516-4334 if you would like to learn more about how we can help support your child’s bladder and bowel control, or reach out here.

Pediatric bedwetting physical therapy must always address constipation & daytime bladder habits!

A common contributor to bedwetting is constipation. You can imagine that in a small body, that a full rectum can squish the bladder and limit bladder capacity. When this happens, the bladder may empty involuntarily either at night with bedwetting or during the day. Our bedwetting physical therapy program will help identify if this is happening for your child and our therapy improves this.   If you are interested in learning more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, call us at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgable team members or contact us here and we will be in touch with you!  

PT for Bedwetting includes multiple methods that work together to enhance your child’s control.

You can expect exercises, biofeedback, coaching and external manual therapy methods to improve bladder and bowel awareness. Our treatment includes behavior modifications, dietary recommendations, pelvic floor retraining through exercises and gentle guidance, manual therapy (external only), and exercise to strengthen the core and hip musculature. We will give you at-home methods to improve constipation and daytime toileting habits. We provide gentle, hands-on manual therapy to help promote intestinal mobility. Additionally, we practice with your child effective toileting strategies, which includes not holding in your poop and listening to your body and knowing when to go to the toilet. To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, you can call us at 616-516-4334 and you will speak with a knowledgable staff member or you may contact us here.

In nearly all cases, when constipation and daytime voiding habits are optimized, we can stop bedwetting.

We will advise you and develop a bedwetting treatment plan that includes a variety of interventions that have been shown in clinical studies to be important physical therapy treatment components to stop bedwetting.

Is bedwetting hereditary?

If a parent experienced bedwetting, we do know that you are more likely to have a child who experiencing nocturnal enuresis, also. However, we also have research that supports that constipation has been present in both parent and child. Parents, it is possible that your own bedwetting may have been triggered by constipation you were not even aware was present. Top clinical experts in the field of pediatric bedwetting consistently assert that constipation must be treated and is likely what has been “inherited” and that the bladder is sensitive to the stretched/full rectum. We can help your child eliminate their bedwetting by addressing constipation and all of the items noted above.

If you are interested in learning more about cost and availability for physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, call us at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgable team members or contact us here and we will be in touch with you!  

If you, as a parent, wet the bed until 6, 8, 12 years or older, it does not mean that your child will have to do the same! Treating the underlying constipation can cure bedwetting. As pediatric bladder & bowel physical therapists we know that many parents think that their child is not constipated. However, when we partner with you to discover and monitor your child’s bowel movement habits, kids and parents find it enlightening to realize that the bowels are not actually functioning as well as they thought.

Physical therapy to help stop bedwetting is provided in a safe, private treatment space in an uplifting environment that is developmentally appropriate.

We work closely with parents and children to create a safe and trusting partnership, so that you experience results, are supported and well cared for. Our approach with children who have bedwetting or any bladder & bowel control problem, is positive, encouraging and rewarding. To learn more about our pediatric physical therapy for bedwetting, reach out to us at 616-516-4334 or contact us here.

Pelvic floor muscle training helps your child learn to control these muscles and helps stop bedwetting.

The pelvic floor is responsible for holding pee and poop in and letting it out. Sometimes when children have developed bedwetting, constipation or urinary problems (such as incontinence, frequency, urgency or holding their pee too long), the pelvic floor muscles get confused and need to be retrained. The pelvic floor needs to relax in order to empty the bladder or the bowel, but for some kids this isn’t happening. Then, they go to bed and fully relax and the flood gates open with bedwetting! If the muscles are not functioning well during the day, it will impair the ability to control your bladder when sleeping. To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, contact us here.

Manual therapy to the abdomen or low back can be effective to help stop bedwetting and pediatric bladder & bowel problems!

Sometimes our treatment includes gentle, hands-on treatments that are directed to your child’s spine, abdomen, pelvis or legs. For example, when stool gets backed up in the rectum it is very common that peristalsis (the coordinated contractions of smooth muscle in your large intestine) gets disrupted. Manual therapy to the abdomen, lower back, and hips can help restore optimal digestion and improve posture to reduce constipation and also calm down an overactive bladder. We also use exercise that are fun and developmentally appropriate to promote posture, breathing mechanics, and mobility of abdominal tissue and the hips/pelvis.

We customize the physical therapy treatment program for your child’s bedwetting based on what we find in the evaluation, your child’s developmental level and tolerances or preferences and the parents’ goals.  By taking this wholisitic and comprehensive approach physical therapy can stop bedwetting

Many times parents tell us that they have noticed that their child who wets the bed may not be as coordinated or strong as another child in family. But, other times, the bedwetting child is the most active and athletic kid in the household.  For these reasons, we customize the treatments for each child.

  • Our licensed physical therapist will assess your child’s pelvic floor muscle control, overall strength, posture, toileting postures & techniques, constipation, abdominal wall integrity, awareness of their bladder and bowel and more.
  • We will give you suggestions and a framework for what to work on at home and we work to not overwhelm your household.
  • Each appointment is private with the child, parent and licensed physical therapist.   We progress your physical therapy at each visit, based on progress or setbacks that have been experienced.
  • If your child needs a bowel clean out program, we will oversee this and provide you extensive support.  Parents tell us that this is extraordinarily helpful.

Parents also say that by working with our physical therapist to address their child’s bedwetting, they finally have clarity and less stress around the problems related to bladder control.

Kids come to PT happy and generally love the treatments, which include fun games and exercises designed to raise awareness of and control of the muscles needed to void. We have worked with kids of all ages, including young adults who are graduating high school and would like to cure their bedwetting before having a college roommate.  These kids are not alone and the stigma associated with bedwetting is a difficult part of their youth.  Our PT program for bedwetting helps your child learn the complicated things that are needed for the bladder to hold urine throughout the night.

If this sounds intriguing to you and you have questions about whether we may be able to help your child, call us at 616-516-4334 or contact us here and we will be in touch with you so you can talk with one of our knowledgable staff members.

Children with constipation, bedwetting or daytime wetting commonly have weakness in their hips and core musculature.  By addressing these issues, our physical therapy can stop bedwetting

At Purple Mountain Physical therapy we develop individualized exercise programs that address your child’s specific deficits in a fun and engaging way so that their bedwetting can stop and their bladder and bowel control during the daytime can be optimized, as well! To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, contact us here.

Behavior modifications that can help stop bedwetting!

We will work with the parents and child to identify any habits that need to be improved. It is common that toileting behaviors are not ideal, leading to diurnal enuresis (wetting their pants during the day) or bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis). Often we find that children don’t like to use the toilet. We also identify that some kids sit on the toilet too long, hold their breath and strain. We are specialists at identifying and coaching your child to gain control of their bowel and bladder so bedwetting can stop, constipation resolves and urinary frequency, urgency and incontinence can also resolve.

If you are serious about getting support for your child so they can stop bedwetting, we are here to help you!

Bedwetting is common, but not normal and has known psychological stress on your child and your household. Bedwetting is often driven by constipation and improper daytime habits for the bladder. As pediatric pelvic physical therapists, we know how to effectively and positively help your child to learn how to use their bladder and bowel optimally. We also know how to teach a parent to support your child. This isn’t easy to overcome, but our specialized care brings clarity to a puzzling situation.  Our licensed physical therapists specialize in pediatric bladder and bowel disorders.  We love this work and have helped countless kids learn to control their bladder and bowel.  We enjoy getting to know the children and their parents and seeing your child’s confidence and self esteem improve.  We understand that bedwetting can be a stressful problem for the entire household and parents have told us that this physical therapy has been the best thing they have done for their child.

If you would like to talk to one of our team members about our pediatric bladder and bowel physical therapy for bedwetting, we are here to answer your questions.  Call us at 616-516-4334 or contact us here and we will be in touch with you.  We consider it an honor to work with you and your child and from the first phone call parents tell us that they finally feel relief at finding support and a path forward for their child.

Purple Mountain Physical Therapy is a specialty bladder and bowel control clinic located in Grand Rapids, MI. We offer specialized physical therapy to help children overcome toileting challenges and bedwetting. We also work with women and men who have pelvic floor dysfunction and bladder, bowel or pain related problems. We have advanced training and experience helping kids improve their bladder & bowel control using a combination of exercises, external treatments, biofeedback, bowel clean out programs, dietary recommendations and play based therapy. We partner with parents to help you know how to best help your child. Our doctors of physical therapy promise to give you our best! To learn more about our physical therapy to help your child’s bedwetting, call 616-516-4334 or contact us here.

Peace,

Dr. Maureen O’Keefe, DPT founder of Purple Mountain Physical Therapy and pelvic health physical therapist specialist.  We are a PT clinic devoted to adults & children’s bladder and bowel challenges, including specialized physical therapy that can stop bedwetting and teach your child how to control their bladder and bowel.  We also provide specialized treatment for adult pelvic health, pregancy & postpartum recovery, chronic TMJ pain and neck and back pain.

You may be interested in these other articles we have written:

Why is My Child’s Poop So Big?

Why Does My Ten Year Old Wet The Bed?

How Much Bedwetting is Normal?

Why is My Child Bloated?

When Can I Start Potty Training?