Tricia Arculus
Tricia is a specialist Pelvic Health physiotherapist with 25 years experience. The conditions she treats include:
- Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction including urinary incontinence and organ prolapse.
- Overactive and dysfunctional bladder.
- Pelvic pain including bladder pain syndrome, vaginismus, vulvodynia + pain during sex.
- Chronic prostatitis, genital pain and chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
- Peri-menopause and menopause symptoms.
- Post-gynaecological surgery rehabilitation.
- Prostatectomy surgery and post-operative rehabilitation.
- Faecal urgency, faecal incontinence and evacuatory difficulties.
- Coccydynia.
The Women’s and Men’s Health therapies she specialises in include:
- Pelvic Floor rehabilitation, Release, Relaxation and Training.
- Bladder, Bowel, Prolapse and Pain management.
- Muscle trigger point release.
- Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) and Acupuncture.
- Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM).
- Psychosexual counselling.
- Health Coaching.
Tricia cares deeply about helping patients to understand their problems, feel empowered to control and reduce their symptoms, and improve their quality of their lives, thereby helping avoid invasive surgical procedures and tests.
She treats, women, men, and, trans and non-binary individuals.
Tricia qualified Physiotherapist at Brunel University College with a BSc Honours degree in 1995. She became a junior physiotherapist at the Royal Free Hospital before specialising in Women’s Health at St Marys Hospital, Paddington. She completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Women’s Health in 2000 at University of Bradford.
In 2002 Tricia returned to the Royal Free Hospital as a Women’s Health Physiotherapist, focussing on the treatment of urogynaecology, colorectal, vulval pain and coccydynia patients. She was seconded to Camden’s Bowel and Bladder Continence service focussing on faecal and urinary incontinence at a number of Islington GP practices.
In 2016 she qualified as an acupuncturist at the University of Hertfordshire in order to use acupuncture as an adjunct to her conservative therapy and set up a Posterior Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) service for the bowel, bladder and pelvic pain patients.
In 2017 Tricia started to manage male patients with bowel, urinary and pelvic pain problems. Related to her current practice she has undertaken post graduate training for Advancing Practice in Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (POGP), Pelvic Floor and Incontinence assessment (ACPWH), Health Coaching (Master Class), Psychosexual Counselling, Advanced Manual Therapy for the PF (Maeve Whelan), Vulval Pain (VP Society), Chronic Pelvic Pain (Ruth Jones) and Acupuncture for Women’s Health (Justine Munir).
In 2024 she attended a 5-day Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) Core Course and a 3-day FSM Pain and Injury Core Practicum to qualify as a FSM practitioner, both presented by Dr Carolyn McMakin, the leading authority instrumental to the ongoing development of FSM. Tricia has now incorporated FSM therapies as an adjunct to her practice.
Tricia’s qualifications are:
- Registered General Nurse (Guys Hospital, London) 1984
- General Intensive Care Nurse (Royal London Hospital) 1986
- Certificate In tropical Diseases (Hospital for Tropical Diseases) 1987
- Registered Midwife (Poole General Hospital) 1989
- BSc honour Physiotherapy (Brunel University) 1995
- Physiotherapy in Women’s Health 1 + 2 (Bradford University) 2000
- Foundation Acupuncture Course MSC (Hertfordshire University) 2016
- Frequency Specific Microcurrent Core Training (Dr Carolyn McMakin) 2024
Registered and Chartered Physiotherapist
BSc (Hons) HCPC MCSP POGP PG Dip (Women’s Health)
FSM Practitioner
Acupuncturist
Tricia specialises in the following treatments:
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