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On this page you will find useful information to help further manage your condition and/or your overall health.

If you have attended our Pelvic Floor or Obstetrics Physiotherapy service, your Physiotherapist will be able to direct you to the most important information and advice for you as an individual.

COVID-19

COVID-19 – NHSGGC

Understanding Pain
Other Physiotherapy Pathways

Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy – NHSGGC

Physical Activity

Get Active – NHSGGC

Coping with Stress, Anxiety or Depression

Heads Up

Sleep, Alcohol, Smoking, Weight Management

Sleep, Alcohol, Smoking, Weight Management – NHSGGC

Gender-Based Violence & Human Trafficking

NHSGGC : Gender-Based Violence & Human Trafficking

You can use the following sections to find advice and exercises to help you manage pregnancy related aches and pains and concerns

If you have followed the advice and exercises provided but you still require to contact the Physiotherapy Department, you can complete our self-referral form.

Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain

Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain is aches and pains experienced during pregnancy or in the early post-natal period around pubic bone, groin, buttocks, hips and/or lower back.

Use the links below for advice on how to manage Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain (PPGP)

Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain and other common conditions in pregnancy | POGP

External Resources

Working from Home – Advice and Exercises: https://www.csp.org.uk/publications/do-you-sit-desk-all-day-leaflets 

Reproduced with permission of Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (pogp.csp.org.uk) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (csp.org.uk). 

NHS Highland Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise Information Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v731EXFR2k4

NHS Lanarkshire Pelvic Girdle Pain Management

Pregnancy related Low back pain

Pregnancy related Low Back Pain is pain experienced during pregnancy or in the early post-natal period around the bottom of your back. If you have pain in other areas around your back, this information will also be useful.

Use the links below for advice on low back pain during pregnancy or after having a baby:

Diastasis Rectus Abdominus Muscles

Diastasis Rectus Abdominus Muscle (DRAM) is the normal widening of your tummy muscles during pregnancy to accommodate your growing baby. After having your baby, this widening can take up to a year to recover.

Factors that may increase the risk of developing DRAM are;

  • Multiple Pregnancy or larger babies
  • Stretching in previous pregnancies
  • Poor abdominal muscle tone
  • Genetics

A small amount of widening of the abdominal muscles, 2-3 fingers width, is common after most pregnancies and likely to resolve with time. You can check you gap by following the steps below;

  • Lie flat on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the bed
  • Place 4 fingers on your abdomen just above your belly button
  • Raise your head and shoulders slightly off the floor
  • You will feel the two abdominal muscles coming together against your fingers – this is the size of your gap – remember there may not be a gap and that is a sign that your DRAM has resolved.

If you notice the following then you may require a specialist physiotherapist to review;

  • The gap is more than 3 fingers wide
  • A visible small bulge protrudes at your midline
  • Your fingers sink deeply into your abdomen

You can self refer for this up to 6 months after you have had your baby by completing the following form;

self referral form

Use the links below for advice on Diastasis Rectus Abdominus Muscles or DRAM.

External Resources

Bladder, Bowel and Pelvic Floor Concerns

Use the links below for advice on bladder, bowel and/or pelvic floor concerns:

Please use the following Relaxation Video to use alongside pelvic floor relaxation.

External Resources

Continence Information Leaflet

Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises Information Leaflet

Pelvic Organ Prolapse Leaflet

Bowel Function Leaflet

NHS Highland Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise Information Video

SqueezyApp for Information Leaflets and Videos on Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises

Reproduced with permission of Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (pogp.csp.org.uk) and SqueezyApp.com

Coccydynia

Coccydynia or tailbone pain is pain experienced on the sitting bone, specially when sitting. This can appear during pregnancy or in the early post-natal period due to the changes happening to your body.

Use the links below for advice about coccydynia or tailbone pain:

External Resources

Working from Home – Advice and Exercises

Reproduced with permission of Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (pogp.csp.org.uk) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (csp.org.uk). 

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is pain, numbness, pins and needles and tingling of the fingers and hand(s). There may be also swelling of the hands and you might feel your hands are clumsy, weak and tire easily. This can appear during pregnancy or in the early post-natal period due to the changes happening to your body.

Use the links below for advice on how to manage carpal tunnel syndrome:

Wrist Splint Size Guide

Reference to measure wrist splint size

DeQuervains Synovitis

DeQuervains Synovitis is pain on the base of the thumb, swelling and reduced movement. This can appear during pregnancy or in the early post-natal period due to the changes happening to your body.

Use the links below for advice on how to manage DeQuervains Synovitis:

Thumb Spica Size Guide

Reference to measure thumb spica size

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde has 6 Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) within its area. You can find local contacts on their websites. Your HSCP

The ward team will discuss with you and your family to assess what services you need and the ward will organise these before you go home. These services can still be arranged when you are at home if required.

NHSGGC Planning Your Care

Other Resources

Palliative and End of Life Care services and resources for patients and carers living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area can be accessed through NHS Inform.

NHS Inform – Scotland’s Service Directory – Palliative Care in NHSGGC area

NHS Inform – Palliative Care – General Information

Telephone enquiries on community services including Palliative Care should be made through your local HSCP contacts or directed to NHSGGC Support and Information Service.

Out of Hours or Urgent Health enquires should be made through your GP or call NHS 24 on 111.

Leaving Hospital

Community Services following discharge from hospital for patients with life limiting conditions, their families and carers.

Hospices

Hospices in NHSGGC and surrounding area

Social Media

We have an X/Twitter account linking with palliative and end of life care news, resources & organisations across the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, Scotland and the UK.

View our latest Tweets and follow us at: www.twitter.com/palliativeggc

Additional Social Media on Palliative Care and Bereavement

Further information and related information

Planning Your Care

Macmillan Information And NHS Bereavement Centre

Adult Disability Payment

Adult Disability Payment, which replaces Personal Independence Payment (PIP), is launching nationally across Scotland on 29 August 2022.

This means Scotland’s new terminal illness definition, based on clinical judgement, will apply to adults (aged 16 to state pension age) who become terminally ill. This moves away from the current DWP time limited ‘6 month’ definition.

From 29 August 2022, BASRiS forms instead of DS1500 forms should be completed to support applications for disability assistance for the following groups:

  • Children: for all children living in Scotland age 0 to 16 years: complete a BASRiS form and return it to Social Security Scotland
  • Adults: age 16 to state pension age: complete a BASRiS form and return it to Social Security Scotland
  • Adults over state pension age: please continue to use a DS1500 and return to DWP. The date for when you will be able to use a BASRiS form for adults over state pension age is still to be announced.

Your Health Care Professional should be able to access the relevant resources to support applications.

More information for the public is available at Social Security Scotland

Bereavement – NHSGGC Services and Resources

For additional bereavement information and the latest advice relating to Covid-19 please check updates on

NHSGGC Home Page

Macmillan Information and NHS Bereavement Centre

The Macmillan Information and NHS Bereavement Centre is a new service based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Further Information and access this service

Coronavirus: dealing with bereavement and grief – Cruse Bereavement Care

Further Information

NHSGGC Bereavement Support for Parents, Siblings and Staff

Child Bereavement UK has been commissioned by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with funding from Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity to provide bereavement support for families bereaved of a baby or child, and training to support NHSGGC staff.

Child Bereavement UK is a national charity which supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.

Contact NHSGGC Service
Telephone. 0141 370 4747
Email. GHsupport@childbereavementuk.org

Bereavement Support for Parents, Siblings and Staff – Leaflet

Renfrewshire Bereavement Network

New grief and bereavement service for families in Renfrewshire.

http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/renfbn

What Can Happen When Someone is Dying

This leaflet provides information to family and friends when someone is dying. It discusses food and fluids, medicines, breathing, communication and other changes.

View or download this booklet at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Public Health Resources Directory

When Someone Has Died – information for you

The NHSGGC Booklet ‘When Someone Has Died, Information and Support for Relatives & Friends’ has been replaced by the new National Booklet ‘When someone has died – information for you’.

View or download this booklet at NHS Inform

NHSGGC Spiritual Care and the Chaplaincy Service

An NHS Healthcare Chaplain is always on-call and ward staff can arrange for them to be paged. 

Further Information and access this service

Other Local and National Services and Resources

Richmond’s Hope – service to help bereaved children in Glasgow 
http://www.richmondshope.org.uk/

LifeLink

Lifelink offers a range of stress services for adults and young people in communities and schools across Glasgow City.

Living Life

Living Life is a free telephone service available to anyone over the age of 16 who is suffering from low mood, mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety.

NHS Inform 

NHS Inform Bereavement area can help you find answers to your questions and guide you through the early days of your bereavement. It can also help you understand more of the experience of loss in the days that lie ahead.’

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief is working to make Scotland a place where there is more openness about death, dying and bereavement so that:

  • People are aware of ways to live with death, dying and bereavement
  • People feel better equipped to support each other through the difficult times that can come with death, dying and bereavement

EQUIPU

EQUIPU is a service responsible for providing, delivering and installing a range of disability equipment supplied by health and social work services to disabled people living at home.

For further information or to arrange uplift contact:

Telephone. 0141 287 6300

Website: www.equipu.org.uk

Arrangements for Death Certification may have changed due to Covid-19. Local Authority websites linked below should have the latest information from your area. The latest National information can also be found on the following websites.

• National Records of Scotland latest information on registering a death during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/registration/registering-a-death

• NHS Inform Medical certificate of cause of death
https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/death-and-bereavement/practical-advice-after-a-death

Local Authority websites provide information about burial services, registering a death and other related advice.

• Glasgow City Council – Registering a death
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/16018/Registering-a-Death

• Renfrewshire Council – Registering a death
http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/2233/Register-a-death

• East Renfrewshire Council – Registering a death
https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/register-death

• Inverclyde Council – Registering a Death
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/environment/registrars/registrations/registering-a-death

• West Dunbartonshire Council – Registering a Death
http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/birth-marriage-death/bereavement/death-registration/

• East Dunbartonshire Council – Registering a Death
https://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/residents/registration-services/registering-death

• North Lanarkshire Council – Registering a Death
https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2093

• South Lanarkshire Council – Bereavement Services
http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200209/deaths/394/registering_a_death

The Macmillan Information and NHS Bereavement Centre is based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

The Centre is located on ground floor of the centre block of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
You can drop in between 9.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
For more information call 0141 451 5373 or email macinfoandnhsbereavement@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

The service provides patients, families, carers and staff access to information materials on various types of cancer, long term conditions and their treatment. The team can provide a listening ear and signpost you onto other support services such as benefits advice, a dedicated one-to-one support worker through Macmillan’s Improving the Cancer Journey, or help to get active. Please visit us and see if we can offer you any assistance. We can also visit you on the ward.

We can provide:

  • time to listen and talk in a comfortable, friendly environment
  • leaflets and booklets on all aspects of living with and beyond cancer
  • access to additional cancer support
  • leaflets and booklets about living with long term conditions

We also offer:

  • help to arrange counselling and free complimentary therapy appointments if you are affected by cancer
  • support to access practical help, such as help at home and travel insurance
  • referral to other available support services.

We will be working in partnership with Palliative and Spiritual Care to offer people the right support at the right time.

The team can also provide emotional and practical advice around end of life care, including information about power of attorney, wills and funeral planning. We also offer support with complex bereavement issues, bereavement counselling and benefits advice to help cover the cost of the funeral.

We can offer information and signposting including:

  • what you need to do when someone dies
  • information about carers support for people looking after someone for example a partner, a patient, a relative with cancer or another long term condition
  • access to other organisations that can help, including local support groups
  • assisting with repatriation
  • discussing organ and tissue donation
  • face to face training for staff
  • end of life care