All my patients know why I’ve been rather silent on the blog front just lately. Every day (almost) since July 5th, when my gorgeous first born and her delightful partner became engaged, there has been quite a bit of wedding talk, in amongst all the usual bladder and bowel talk that emanates from my Highgate Hill […]
You’ve all heard me prattle on about #pelvicmafia. It’s a worldwide group of dedicated Continence and Women’s Health Physios who spend their working days and often long into the night treating patients, reading articles, tweeting, Facebooking and communicating with their buddies around the world are on their very favourite topic of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. Julie Wiebe (click to read the
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It’s coming up for three years since I wrote my first blog and in all that time, one of my most ardent supporters has been Bob – my husband, the clever artist (who did all the drawings/ diagrams in my books) and all round good guy that you, who have bought said books, has been communicating with after
Well it’s taken a while but here we are at the end of the prolapse talk – the final step in managing prolapse and boy is it important! Thankfully these days, women are understanding the value of exercise for many reasons – prevention of osteoporosis, good heart health, assisting in weight management and in a general
Remember this series of blogs relates to a talk I did for the public a few weeks ago and Part 4 of the 5 Step Plan is all about bowels. Bowels Bring Down Prolapse (and cause failure of operations): WHY? Never taught correctly as a child how to defaecate Bad habits- stool wrong consistency, always strains
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Last chance for you to attend a FREE lecture on Prolapse at Coorparoo commencing at 6.30pm: Registration and refreshments 6.55pm: Welcome – Continence Foundation of Australia, Tracey Sparks 7.00pm: Prolapse – what are my options? – presented by Urogynaecologist, Dr Hannah Krause 7.45pm: The 5 Step Plan for Managing Your Prolapse – presented by Physiotherapist,
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Children in Detention (Sepia pencil 2005) I’ve done it before and there’s no doubt I’ll do it again. When you write your own blog you can write what you like, when you like – so today I am veering right off the pelvic floor path and onto the slippery slope of asylum seekers. What provoked me to
The box of tissues is always close by in my treatment room. There’s often tears of sadness- a loss of a favourite exercise that’s not ‘pelvic floor safe’ and therefore has to be dropped from the daily routine. There’s often tears due to high anxiety when the diagnosis of prolapse is made – damage to my vagina? Can
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Around December and January I often see quite a few patients for review – either they haven’t been for many years and have made a promise to themselves to come back and sort out their continence/prolapse/frequency/urgency problem out before Christmas or have included a visit back to me as one of their New Year’s resolutions.
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In September, I went to the beautiful New Zealand to present at a Colorectal workshop in Auckland and not knowing the audience at all, and them not knowing me, I wanted to engage early on with them and set the scene – that I am passionate about my profession of physiotherapy for pelvic floor dysfunction,