You may have been wondering why it’s been all quiet on the blog front lately. I have been working hard with my wonderful website designer Lina to design a new website and at last it’s up and running. I think you’ll agree it’s been worth all the hard work. I’m hoping it’s easier to navigate, is informative […]
It’s been a sad week this week. Two great men have passed away, one definitely before his time. Ross was a farmer, a wonderful family man and had tremendous faith. Bill was a builder, a wonderful family man and has been a loving husband and carer for his lovely wife, Necia. While attending Ross’s funeral
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Every week, when assessing patients who have come for help with pelvic floor dysfunction, I find women who have significant muscle or nerve damage to their pelvic floor. This results in either a very weak muscle contraction or a sensory deficit such that they cannot ‘feel’ a pelvic floor muscle contraction even if they may
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Peg’s been at it again – sending joke emails to all her friends. They mostly all have a theme – aging and its drawbacks – that aging ain’t for sissies!! I’d thought I’d share this one with you because it’s relevant to all my usual themes…prevention, act now don’t wait for the problems, be pro-active and prevent the problems.
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Urinary incontinence associated with an overactive bladder Today I attempted my first video blog. I now have new respect for reporters, for actors and for Obama. Talking ad-lib to a camera without an autocue and to get it right the first…fifth……seventeenth time – is not an easy thing to do. So I thought I would
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What is Levator Avulsion? In 2007, quite a few years ago now, I had an ‘Oh My God’ moment in a lecture at an AGES conference (Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society). Professor Peter Dietz, a Sydney Urogynaecologist, was revealing to the attentive audience of doctors, physiotherapists and nurses that muscle weakness which had been
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My last blog was my 70th blog – mostly all of them have been about the bladder, bowel, pelvic floor, pain, prolapse, sex and quite a few about fistula repairs and how to donate to HADA. There was the occasional self-indulgent one about Noosa or Italy but as my #pelvicmafia friends around the world will vouch, I have
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Today three things happened which made me think: ” What is wrong with the world?” Firstly I treated a lovely lady who had extremely severe incontinence, just continual leakage when in the upright position- it made me think ……leakage just like when you have a fistula- like I’ve written about with Dr Hannah Krause and Professor Judith Goh and
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Over the last two years of my son Micheal’s Architecture degree he has learnt the guitar – self taught – and has become rather good. It’s really quite pleasant being serenaded day and night with renditions of the Beatles, Queen and Jimmy plus many others. His interest in all things guitar led us to Easts Leagues Club last night to catch up with
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Recently my lovely, wise GP and I were having a chat about catastrophising. We are all capable of catastrophising. I see the tendency in many pain patients and those suffering with bladder urgency. It’s easy to do when you are anxious as to whether you are going to cope with a function or outing when
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